Questioning One's Existence over a spilled Smoothie!

Last weekend, Hans and I decided to take advantage of 20X points at Shoppers Drug Mart. ‎Hans loves walking down aisles and checking out all sorts of merchandise! In preparation for this exciting shopping spree, I decided to get us each a beverage. Usually, I grab a coffee and Hans gets a smoothie. Sometimes, the beverages get in the way of optimum shopping (pun totally intended)! So, I made the executive decision of buying one beverage and sharing it. Hans and I got a large mango smoothie at Baskin Robbins (and it is important to mention this little detail here).

Hans wanted to hold the smoothie immediately and started sipping from his straw. ‎He made sure my straw was untouched and clean. Happily, we made our way to Shoppers. Here is the point in our tale where our happiness was on the brink of being short-lived. Hans has this habit of entering Shoppers through the exit door. It is quite dangerous and one has to wait for another shopper to make an exit to use that particular door to enter. I have warned Hans on many an occasion that if he stood in front of an exit door, it could hit him in the face! Well, he took it as a challenge and always positions himself at a safe distance. It has almost become a non-issue and I have a happy boy who darts in quickly as the exit door is closing and feels like a ninja!

And as we neared this double door adventure, Hans realized that he was holding a large smoothie. So, as I was entering through the "entrance" door, Hans decides to hand me the smoothie before he darted through the "exit" door! Predictably, the smoothie landed on the ground. We were lucky that it came from Baskin Robbins; it was so thick that it stayed a blob where it landed. It is amazing how something that looks so delicious in a container looks so disgusting when it lands on the ground!

I ran in quickly to inform a Shoppers employee. She was very nice and told me not to worry about it and that they would take care of it. All this while, Hans literally walked beside me with a scared look. Once I finished speaking with the employee, he blurted out:

Your life would be so much better if I wasn't born. It is all my fault. I give you so much work.

I looked at Hans and felt like I somehow failed as a mother. It is a spilled smoothie for heaven's sake! ‎Hans' reaction was a bit too intense. I just gave him a hug and told him that I don't care for the spilled smoothie; it can be cleaned up! I would be very sad if he hadn't been born. He makes me so happy. He is more important than any smoothie in the world. Hans cheered up quite a bit. Then, he had this to say:

So, you were always sad before I was born?

Hans is something else. We had the best shopping spree and as we walked out with our bags, I had to warn Hans to not step into the messy pool of mango smoothie right in front of the exit door!