Ed, life is too short to take overly seriously. You need to "take your party with you". If things aren't going exactly as you would like....have fun anyway. It dosen't cost a thing!
At the winter show I was heading for the parking lot. It had been raining off and on and it was muggy. A Tram came by, I asked if they were heading to the parking lot, and the driver said yes. I hopped on and sat next to two women about my age, and a tad heavy. 
The driver didn't tell me He was taking the long way there and made two lefts instead of a right. That put me downwind of those fine ladies. They were wearing that perfume that "mature" heavy ladies sometimes wear(I believe they buy it in 55 gal. drums) I had NO choice but to exit that tram in a heartbeat. That put me about 1000 feet further from the parking lot and I started to walk.
About 200 yards or so down the road a pretty young gal in a golf cart pulls next to me and slows because there is so much foot traffic. I said "Hi", She said "Hi" I said "do you ever pick up strangers?" She said "on occasion". I said, "ones with gimpy legs?"(my left hip had run out of grease a mile ago) She said "hop in"! and drove me to my car!
There's always at least one glass of lemonade in every bushel of lemons.
You just have to be ready to taste the lemonade when you bite into the lemons, or you'll miss it when it comes!
                                                        Larry Coltrin