Fruit cup lolz

[christopher575]

I've had three chances to order my daily fruit cup since they made the switch and I can't serve it up myself. The first time was with my old arch enemy, the sandwich lady who likes to cut me off at the coffee machine. She makes sandwiches and wraps all the time, so she understands how to make things fit in other things. Ever try to close an overstuffed wrap? It isn't pretty. She flew along the row of fruit and did a great job flinging a little bit of each into the cup.

Yesterday, someone I don't recognize at all helped me and made the classic salad bar mistake. You put down too much lettuce, and even just a little of each thing you want piles up way too high. She saw her error halfway through and said something along the lines of, "Oh no! I can make this work. Don't worry, you'll get some of everything." She managed to balance some of everything on there and crammed it down with a lid that couldn't close. I got it all the way back to my desk without incident, though. 

The guy who got stuck with me today really blew it. There were six fruits there, and he started by filling the cup halfway up with strawberries. He started to panic on the third fruit, so I told him not to worry about the honeydew.

It's interesting to watch people do things like this. Like putting pepperoni on a pizza. You need to have a plan, or else one side will have too much and the other won't have enough. And that's never good. Unless you want to hog all the pepperoni.

Comments

[shirtlifterbear.livejournal.com]

I loathe melon.

That is all.

[doughynut.livejournal.com]

I remember cafeteria time in grade school. They would serve these thngs called "Mexican Haystacks". They were scoops of rice with chicken and red mole sauce smothered all over. But, I always had to eat a packed lunch, so I never got any :(

How was your time with Nancy? She said that she is coming back in a few weeks. I want to hang with you guys when she comes back!

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

It was fun! She said she saw you and that we had to hang out. Especially since we didn't see you Saturday before last.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

Do you want all the fruits? Or are you allowed to tell them which ones you want?

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

I'm imagining Aunt Sandy giving viewers a helpful hint to go to the cafeteria to get pre-cut fruit to bring home to make a dessert that saves all of the time of chopping.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I can tell them which ones I want. I generally want them all, but if the honeydew looks pale I'll pass.

One bummer is that there are fewer slots now. There used to be 8-9 fruit containers and now there are six. They didn't always have 8-9 different fruits, but sometimes they did.

[nicolemarieh.livejournal.com]

you are one of the most observant people i know :) it's nice, getting to read your observations on everything around us. (find meaning in everything and all that..) ;)

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

What a nice thing for you to say. :D

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

Actually I often think of pouring vodka on the fruit.

[nicolemarieh.livejournal.com]

you just notice things that i think most people dont, or at least that i never do! but i'm terribly unobservant.

your posts often bring me a little new perspective. even if it's something relatively mundane such as fruit cups, you make it seem less mundane and more interesting. thinking about the process that goes into it and how people make their decisions (or lack of); how we as humans behave.. /shrug. :)

[panikmanik.livejournal.com]

I imagine these people having cold sweats and panic induced nightmares about these scenarios.