Showing posts with label sandwiches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sandwiches. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2009

Taking Food From Strangers


What's your opinion? If it's free and it looks edible, what would you do?
Push 1 for: Absolutely I would eat it.
Push 2 for: No, it's got rat poison.
Push 3 for: Inspect it thoroughly and weigh your options.

Today, a regular patron at the library brought me half of a sandwich. We had talked earlier about a delicatessen (notice I did not shorten this term to "deli") I had never frequented. She was adamant that I sample the menu from Viafore's, and I told her I was planning on going someday, but limited by public transportation.
Remembering this fact, she called me this morning at the library and said she would bring me a sandwich. I told her, "You really don't have to do this. It will make the other employees jealous." She quickly came up with a solution: "I'll just drop it by and say it's from your mom." Which is exactly what she did.
She's a nice person and not exactly a stranger...but accepting food from someone who've you only interacted with in several two- or three-minute encounters...is a bit questionable.
So what did I do?

I saved it for dinner and polished it off within a matter of minutes. No inspection. Just ate the durn thing.
I am a very trusting person.
You can take advantage of me easily.
If I had been poisoned by a crazy woman, or maybe it's one of those slow-acting poisons, I want my tombstone to read:

"Possessed a hunger for life and sandwiches."