King For A Day

I broke a daruma last month but this week I was invited by a friend to take a slice of King Cake, and I got the baby. 

Maybe that offsets the daruma. Actually what bothers me about the breaking the figure is that the shop keeper would not let me pay for it, and I felt awful about having deprived him of that income. He said "It was an accident. It cannot be helped," This is an expression in Japan that covers a lot of annoyances. At the moment I am not feeling as if I am at my most graceful or sharp.

But from the 3:30pm to midnight on Mardi Gras, I was king for a day.

I'll take it.