It's sad

I recently made a loaf of bread. I threw all of the ingredients into the breadmaker and then happily pushed the start button. I then began to clean the kitchen. Lo and behold, I discovered the little paddle that is supposed to be in the bottom of the breadmaker pan. Needless to say, you can't put the paddle in after the machine has started its process. The loaf on the right is the poor inedible loaf that emerged three hours later. The one on the left was the one that I made afterwards. It's just sad, isn't it?