Imagine this if you will...

I am in my usual hurry getting ready for work this morning. Since it was supposed to rain again today, I decided to flat iron my hair. I plugged in the flat iron to heat up while I put my make-up on. When I was ready to do my hair I grabbed the iron and started straightening my bangs, which are long and swept to the side. After about two or three swipes over the hair, I start to feel stuff on my hands and it was burning them. To my absolute horror I realized that while the flat iron was heating up it was touching a plastic basket I have on the counter and the plastic had melted on one side of the iron and now the hot plastic was all through out my bangs and hardening fast. It was a nightmare, especially considering that I had just spent a ton of money on Tuesday getting my hair cut and highlighted. It took me forever to pick out the pieces of plastic from the hair and then I also had to cut a few hairs because the hair would not come out of the plastic.

That was the highlight of my day and it went downhill from there!