one eighty

"No, it isn't all right for anybody to make such a terrible row, but - people do sometimes. Stanley's always smashed things. Why, on our wedding night - soon as we came in here - he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the light-bulbs with it."

"He did what?"

"He shamed all the light-bulbs with the heel of my slipper!"

"And you - you let him? Didn't run, didn't scream?"

"I was - sort of - thrilled by it."

A Streetcar Named Desire

I went to the beach today instead of studying for my final exam. It's all coming to an end. I've never been so thrilled in my life.