How to remain Calm during Minor Explosions

So, cancelled gym induction has been reinstated for tonight, which of course means wearing legging-contraptions again, which means horrific wobbling for all to see. Again. Ugh.
However I am counting my lucky starts because a friend of mine is going for her gym induction (at a different gym) next week and hers will be what can only be described as traumatic. Her inductor – muscle-bound, youthful, gym man – will weigh her, measure her height… not too bad so far, until he gets the measuring tape and wraps it around her waist, hips, upper arms and THIGH! What is that all about? So I am counting myself lucky that although I am going to be trouping around the gym looking very wobbly, at least thin people won’t be getting their tape measures out and measuring just how wobbly I am.

On another topic, this morning, I had a job making sure I didn’t have a minor road incident, when my car presented me with a mini explosion. So on my way to work I drive for a small amount of time on the motorway. When driving at speed, it is clearly necessary to turn up your music so that you can feel the wind in your hair and smell the scent of freedom as you zip off in your nippy little car, leaving all your worries behind you and knowing that tomorrow will be another day… (oh, ok, so I turn my music up because I have an old and sometimes noisy car and if I don’t turn it up, because of the gammy drivers-side speaker, I just can’t hear it).
The explosion occurred when I got near work – my music was fairly loud, I was just turning a corner, when BOOM – the radio starts blasting out of the second speaker. It gave me such a shock that I almost veered off to the other side of the road.

I am now drinking a cup of tea. The teabag came from evil starbucks (– I think the man felt sorry for me because I was on my own and furnished me with the gift of free teabags), and is called tazo “calm”.

I have noted that is says on the back that “a single cup of tazo calm has been known to have the same effect as sitting for 45 minutes in a mountain meadow on a sunny day with your shoes off”. Had I known that, I would have had it this morning after my explosion experience. How foolish.