I have some important news now. Listen up, this is something society needs to correct. I’m talking about those itsy-bitsy tags produce packers stick on every apple, plum, peach, nectarine, blah blah. My daughter nearly choked on one of those paper menaces once, but of course she’s usually in her own la-la land so didn’t even notice it on the apple she was eating.. But you can bet your sweet butt I know they’re there.
Next to the recliner in my bedroom I have a table where I keep my TV guide and magazines. When I bring an apple in there, I take off the little weezy label and stick it on the edge of the table. When I get a fair amount lined up, I scrape them off and discard them, provided I can shake them off my hand.
What is inexcusable are those tags that somehow escape the fruit, fall on the floor and cement themselves into the nap of the carpeting. When I vacuumed the other day, I went over and over the spots where the tags were firmly embedded. Nothing. I finally had to bend over and scratch them off the carpet !! That just ain’t right. Is it?
I’d like to organize a protest march in front of the supermarket, but then it occurred to me that this wouldn’t work. Now, listen up — this apple has a pretty short season but it’s the best apple in the world. It’s called “Honey Crisp” and they are wonderful. After the honey crisps are kaput, I usually buy “Gala” apples…..crisp, sweet and delectable. But then, in the same row of other apples, there are are Fiji, Braeburn, Macintosh, Johnathan, Rome. Mostly all of these look alike. So without the ID tag stuck on each one, how would a checker-outer know what to charge?
Never mind.
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We need to genetically engineer them to have barcodes, I think.
Har Har…..Dennis, you are a funny guy. Even though you have the ugliest nose I’ve ever seen on a living human being.