I believe the second line is supposed to read "something gets dropped and still"
It's a take on the "three-second" rule only half-jokingly followed in some food-service jobs: anything dropped on the floor is good if you pick it up in three seconds. The speaker being too slow to react seems to be a handy metaphor for coming to self-understanding too late to clean up your mistakes.
I believe the second line is supposed to read "something gets dropped and still"
It's a take on the "three-second" rule only half-jokingly followed in some food-service jobs: anything dropped on the floor is good if you pick it up in three seconds. The speaker being too slow to react seems to be a handy metaphor for coming to self-understanding too late to clean up your mistakes.