Sister's Bridal Shower

Today, Sunday, was my sister's bridal shower. She is getting married in 39 days, on March 24. I am her maid of honor, so I had to help out a lot with the shower and setting up. The house that the party was held at belongs to the parents of her best friend since middle school. It is a beautiful house, but the mom is an extreme perfectionist. She is the most OCD person ever, and we call her "crazy-pants." So I was in charge of filling all of the candy bowls around the house with the specially colored candies we had purchased to match the color-theme of the party. I could not find any scissors, so I figured I'd just open the bag by hand. Something went wrong, and the bag completely exploded and hundreds and hundreds of little purple candies went flying everywhere. I'm talking hitting the ceiling, the windows- everywhere. I froze; I had no idea how to proceed. Suddenly I snapped back into it; and immediately just dove to the floor to try and begin cleaning up a mess that appeared would take hours. I was thankfully able to get every candy- or so what appeared to be every candy- up just in time before the mother entered the room. It was the closest call ever.