That moment when you've committed the cardinal sin of lab work—shattering glassware—and your fight-or-flight response kicks in harder than a sodium-water reaction! The shifty eyes say it all: "Maybe if I stand perfectly still, the laws of accountability will cease to apply." Meanwhile, your lab partner is already backing away, the teacher's spidey-sense is tingling, and somewhere in the universe, Newton's lesser-known Fourth Law activates: "For every broken test tube, there is an equal and opposite panic attack." Bonus points if the substance inside was something colorful that's now slowly creeping across the bench toward someone's notebook!