when butter meets the table

Has this ever happened to anyone? You go to apply that wonderful clump of butter to your biscuit, and wham! it falls off the knife and adheres to the nice clean restaurant table..

Well you know, life is kind of like butter. You expect it to go one way, and, well, it sometimes doesn't. But you know what you do? You take that butter and you throw it away, and you still eat the biscuit because, well, it is a wonderful biscuit.

...And that is exactly what happened at lunch...