Two remarks here (which boil down to the same, actually). The first, is that you actually performed the first instance of the sentence perfectly. That's a win. But we usually don't see it that way, I know. It's the failures we remember. The second, is that I think situations like this is why it makes sense to define ourselves as stutterers. Not just to indulge in the labeling game, but because our baseline expectation is justifiably that we're gonna run into problems. When we don't, it's the unexpected. I know, we would like to see it the other way around, but I think we know ourselves better if we don't let ourselves get caught off guard when we fail to perform as we desire - or rather, when we perform _as expected_. Performing flawlessly should be what we remember as a succes for the day, and not the other way around: Only remembering when we ran into trouble. You see what I'm saying? It's a sort of "twist" (on success/expectation/failure), I guess.