Worse can happen........
On a very hot day and after a long walk, I bought an ice cream at Porthleven and ordered a clotted cream topping. The assistant gave me the rest of what was in the clotted cream box, which turned out to be a very large amount. Almost drooling in anticipation, I had barely got beyond the shop door with my mountain of cream and was about to get to grips with it when it slid off the ice cream as one big lump and fell in the road. I was absolutely gutted.
I am fated....a couple of years before, I was at St Ives with another clotted cream ice cream. I was about to take my first bite when a seagull flew over my shoulder from behind me, deftly plucked the cornet from my hand and flew off over the sea with the ice cream perfectly balanced, cream intact. I had to admire the dexterity. This was probably karma as the previous year I had laughed at someone who had offered a small piece of sandwich to a seagull while holding the rest of it away behind him. Yes, another seagull nabbed the whole sandwich without the owner even seeing it happen - he just brought his empty hand back round and stared at it.