Thursday, September 18, 2008

Close Encounters with the Refrigerated Kind

OK, so I realize that in my last post, I bragged about how adventurous I have been in the food department. Well, after a chance discovery this morning, I may be eating my words (no pun intended...OK, a little pun intended).

This morning, I opened our fridge to grab my juice box that makes up a significant portion of my breakfast. The fridge is pretty huge, and I rarely take the time to look around and its other contents. However, this morning I was running early, so I took an extra 30 seconds to cast a glance over all of the shelves. WELL. I noticed a plastic shopping bag with these gray, long, skinny things poking out. It appeared to be some sort of gray asparagus, to give you all an idea of what I saw. Only when I looked closer did I notice that the gray was actually FUR. And at the end of the long things, there were CLAWS. I have no idea what was actually in the bag, but I am thinking it was a rabbit or something along those size guidelines. Still...to be unexpectedly greeted at 8 AM with a dead animal in the fridge was a bit jarring. I felt like I had accidentally stumbled upon a dead body hidden in someone's freezer.

Fortunately, I have lunch and a dinner today at the Fund, and I will be traveling this weekend. Thus, the only meal I will be eating at my home over the next 72 hours will be breakfast tomorrow, which will assuredly be a juice box VERY quickly taken out of the fridge.

I just wanted to share this culturally surprising experience with all of you. Yeesh.

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