h2>Dating : Day 224/365: Queen’s Gutter

Day 224/365: Queen’s Gutter
The gutter had been in the same position for the four years that Queen had been in university but somehow it had conspired with her brain to disgrace her on the most auspicious of days.
It was the day of her project defense, lol, who could forget. She had spent the days before that praying against failure and his cohorts. Who knew she had to pray against gutters of embarrassment?
Dressed in her crisp sky blue shirt and black pants, sealed with a fierce look on her face, « those people on my panel don’t know who hit them », she wondered aloud.
In between her hours of intense prayer and fasting, she ensured that she read the project cover to cover, she even had some of her junior counterparts ask her questions from her bulky project work.
Queen was ready in every sense of the word.
As she approached the intimidating faculty building, walking with two of her closest friends from her days in the university, she couldn’t help but announce the presence of the gutter to them. « See gutter oh, make person no go fall inside on defense day », she said in a loud sing-song voice.
Till today she doesn’t know why she did that, announced the presence of the gutter that had been there probably before she was born and would be there even after she leaves the university’s premises.
Because shortly after she made the announcement, she slipped on the muddy slope just beside the dry gutter and landed inside it.
As she fell in, she heard her pants give way to the elements alongside her formerly bound project. Her hands and legs also scraped against the wall of her arch-enemy, the gutter.
Despite the obvious chaos at that moment, all Queen could think about was the indisputable fact that her defense would be postponed.
« Looks like the panelists would be hearing from me another day », she thought as her friends rushed to help her out humiliation.