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@wordsmith    *shakes head* But see… Prehaps what I’m saying is since I have no expectations (or do I? That’s curious..), I cannot be “disappointed.” No matter the outcome. And if I have no expectations, something being unexpected might as well be expected, since I do not expect. For example. Suppose I found a seed. A random seed, in a random place. I don’t know what kind it is. But I plant it. And I do not expect it to do anything. No… I just have no expectations at all. So it’s not that I expect it to do nothing, I just don’t expect. Now, if I had expected it to grow, then if it had not grown, that would have been unexpected. Or if I had expected it NOT to grow, and it DID, that would be unexpected. Or if I KNEW (different than expecting) that it would grow, but I expected it to be an apple tree (because it looks like an apple seed, and maybe I found it beside an apple core), then if it grew poison ivy, that would be unexpected. But if I simply don’t expect… There’s nothing (I think) that you can do about it.

And, on the subject of being caught off guard by your pinto beans, I actually did expect something besides coffee beans. So that didn’t throw me. Strike one  😛