Any additional information might mess things up, Cabrera said.
Also, he says, "If you try to be too cute, you might mess up".
The thought that she might mess things up is doing her head in.
Scotty objects to having to sign for torpedoes when he is afraid they might mess with his engines; he quits, telling Kirk not to fire them.
During games, he said, he kept up a running dialogue in his head: "Greg, I can't believe that you might mess this up.
It's not like your antibacterial soap, or antibacterial washing machines," both of which have sundered reputations among those who fear that these products might mess with the ecosystem.
"At my stage, when you're at my level, you don't really want to go to a new person who might mess things up," she said.
For example? "Never walk across a wet floor," Mr. Mulholland advised, saying you might mess up the work of the prisoner manning the mop.
To keep his head down and not get in trouble, to not look the police in the eye because they might mess with him?
He feels clear that whoever wins in Hove will win overall – "though I suppose the Scotland thing might mess that up".
"Sometimes I get nervous the day of the shows, and my stomach hurts because I think I might mess us," she said.
