Prompt: After reading Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity," which explores the poet's daring craft, write about your most absurd personal experience. Describe a single, specific incident that felt ridiculously bold or foolish. Ensure your response is vivid, concise, and captures the essence of absurdity.

Prompt Response: An incident that felt absurd took place when I was at a hotel with my family. On the morning of our last day, I was in the hotel lobby at the breakfast bar. I was fixing a plate for my mom and I  accidentally used the spoon for the eggs to scoop out some grits for her. The cook brought out some fresh grits beforehand. She noticed what I did and became angry with me. She went off on me saying that I ruined it for everyone and no one can't have any grits. I apologized but she automatically dismissed me and said, "No you should know better, you know everything." I thought what she said was ridiculous. I do own up to the fact that I should have been more mindful of my actions, but there could've been a sensible agreement that it was just an accident. It felt unreasonable for her to have spoken to me the way she did. 

Summary: In class we read and annotated  Lawrence Ferlinghetti's poem "Constantly Risking Absurdity,"

Reflection: I learned that stretching the truth is better than being blunt and hurting someone's feelings or lying.