Water, water everywhere

This morning when I was just about ready to leave for work I knocked over a full glass of water, which shattered and splashed water over the kitchen floor. I made some outcry of distress and frustration, and the dog came running to see what all the excitement was about. While I used up a quarter of a roll of paper towels soaking up the water and wiping up the glass splinters, I had to keep telling him, "No! Get back!" or he would have walked right into the mess and probably gotten glass in his paws.