Just broken a mug

[avevale_intelligencer]

It was a beautiful mug from Boscastle in Cornwall, pot-bellied with a design of bare trees on a green background. I gave it to my mum when we visited many years ago, and got it back after my dad died. I didn't use it myself, kept it for best, but I loved to look at it. If you've visited us any time in the past year or two you've probably used it. I was shifting things to clean the work top and I knocked it off its hook and it broke.

I break things all the time, because I'm so fucking clumsy, but this was worse. I seem to be holding in a good deal of undirected and inappropriate anger at the moment for some reason, and I can't shift it. And now it's cost me a beautiful thing that I'll have to go to Cornwall to replace, because the pottery doesn't trade online as far as I can tell. I wouldn't trust the post with something like this anyway.

And now all I want to do is take the rest of our huge collection of mugs out into the garden and throw them at the wall one after the other. Which would be stupid.

Today, as some of my friends are wont to say, is SO fired.

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[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

And now all I want to do is take the rest of our huge collection of mugs out into the garden and throw them at the wall one after the other. Which would be stupid.

Sounds familiar. I often react the same way when I break things (frequently - I'm clumsly too)

I broke Tom's Portmerion "christening" mug/tankard (in a style no longer made so not even partly repaceable with a substitute of the same design). So in addition to my anger over being clumsy and breaking it in the first place, I have GUILT that it's Tom's and irreplacable both due to the attached sentimental value AND the rarity of the thing.

I broke my favourite Aristocats mug (prize for winnign the General Knowledge quiz at a Disney Convention)... I recently found another of the same mug, second-hand on e-bay in the US... cheap but worryingly breakable in not-cheap international shipping.

I've chopped the oak-leaf man mug I fell in love with and had to buy on a stroll around the shops in Gravesend with Annie when Jared was a baby in his push-chair.... This one, I found another of on e-bay in the UK, but was outbid.

So, yep, smashing the rest in a fit if fury has a certain (if utterly stupid) appeal

On the up-side. I found an Eeyore "gloomy gloomy" mug on e-bay that I've been after since I used one of the same design at a Nycon years ago.... so swings and roundabouts.

Teddy
(We still have more mugs than we actually use, even with the breakages, but I can't resist some... Apparently, I have a mug-habit)

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

"Erm... Why, yes! I am the sad sort of person who obsesses about someone else's mug he particularly liked and tries to hunt down one of the same design for himself, even if it takes years. Strange you should ask."

Teddy