Five Second Rule?

What do you do when you're eating something you really like and it slips out of your hand and drops on the floor (oh no)? Do you apply the five second rule to it? I try to think of it as the grace period between the crash landing on the ground and your reaction time to pick it up. So let's imagine it for a second (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and know you didn't pick it back up in time, whomp, whomp, whomp! But if we do make it and blow on the food a bit that makes it better (like our germs are any better right). Well in an episode of Food Detectives, the five second rule is no good because bacteria goes to the food immediately but I think in our mind we try to say we still have that grace period. Sometimes we try to abuse God's grace like its a five second rule because we use it as an escape for going the wrong way instead of using it when we hit a bump in the road towards our destination. Just like the five second rule for food we try to justify doing the wrong thing and then pray for God's grace and mercy immediately after but the truth is, once it hits the floor it just became dirty and asking God to blow on it won't make it better because the truth is, He won't blow on it. But the beauty of His grace is, He will start over with you because unlike the five second rule, He has a grace period that will allow you to ask for forgiveness and to start over brand new, as long as you are willing to go through that process.