The Hole in the Freezer

29 Jan

Brendan,

I’m in a bad way. I don’t want to talk about lunch. It’s Friday and Fridays should be about happiness, but this whole day has been off. It started with Duke. He was mental this morning and I just knew the walk wasn’t going to go well. But I doubted myself. I thought—it will probably be fine. It wasn’t fine. I took his leash off and off he ran, towards the road (instead of into the park). Took me 10 minutes before I finally got his attention and tricked him into coming back. Then I got ready for work.

I prepared my lunch. And I don’t want to talk about my lunch because it was awful: toast, chicken, mayo, pickles. That’s not a sandwich. That’s the minimum requirements for living. But you know what I really wanted? Ice cream—at 8 AM. No day is going to go right when you want ice cream at 8 AM. I opened the freezer and there was a hole. A giant hole where the ice cream should be.

So that’s it for me. That should’ve been a wrap on the day. Then I read this XKCD comic. Sad robots. The only thing worse than sad robots is a sad puppy. Personification is the worst.

But even after all this, I had a backup plan—a kiwi. A delicious, hairy, ripe kiwi. Then, as I spooned the sweet and tangy kiwi flesh, I displaced some kiwi juice on my white shirt. This day is the pits.

Rhett

3 Responses to “The Hole in the Freezer”

  1. Tara 01. Feb, 2010 at 10:43 am #

    Isn’t that what I saw you eat for lunch for almost a year straight?

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