Archive | June, 2025

Picky Eaters

9 Jun

I went to a luncheon on Saturday and sat near the thinnest – skinniest! – woman I have ever seen outside of a newsreel. The expression “skin and bones” was probably coined to describe this gal. Not only was she painfully thin, but she had very short hair and wore a tichel over it. Honestly, with her tattoos and all the rest of it, she might have been a concentration camp survivor.

While the rest of us were eating she sipped a cup of tea. When I offered her a sandwich, she demurred. “There’s nothing here I like.” We had chicken salad, egg salad, cucumber on brown bread, and two or three sorts of cheese, on white bread, sliced into “fingers”. Even I found something to eat, and I don’t eat meat. She must not have found anything she liked for a loooong time.

The adage that eventually a picky eater will decide to eat doesn’t always hold true.

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I Learned a New Word Today

1 Jun

Resistentialism. This is the idea that inanimate objects are innately evil.

Frankly, I believe it. I have a kitchen drawer full of knives that lie in wait for me, and frying pans that take great delight in burning my fingers.

When we lived at the Rice Paddy the fluorescent light in the bathroom refused to turn on, no matter how many times you flipped the switch. And then, when you finally decided you could do what you came to do in the dark, the light would come on just after you washed your hands. Many’s the time I bathed by candlelight.

The light in the den only came on only on alternate Mondays. We simply left the light on 24/7, but a friend accidentally flipped the switch on her way out the door. There’s a certain irony to using an oil lamp to use the computer.

Resistentialism