Finesse is not one of my children is what I tell myself. Were I not so loud and schizophrenic or quiet and hard to lay, as the case may sometimes be, this conviction would give me no trouble. However, trouble is what I've got. It sits in the tub with a downcast sort of attitude and asks me, with its puppy-like feet for eyes, "why do you despise these feet I have for eyes?"
I cannot bring myself to respond. But, sooner or later, I must respond. Trouble, left alone, will not go away. It will get worse and seek the trouble-maker out. Knowing my penchant for bathing, it knew exactly where to find me. I had made a mess of things. Unbeknownst to me, this mess became the trouble that now kept me from my relaxation. Somewhere, the smack must have been involved.
It displeases my toast to find itself unlubricated by the jam that I now find myself in. Sticky yet sickeningly sweet, the stuff that would have my present condition preserved begins to suffocate me. Though I'm in no position to give a toast, I have all the terrible puns a man could want. That said, I've no trouble meeting my maker, so long as I may believe that I, myself, am not trouble.
It is somewhere at this point in the story that I was smacked. The sobering hand of the humorless is often what saves the reader (you may rest at ease) from the litany of puns and miscarriages--claiming to be smiles--that befoul the air about the speaker stating such lines as these.