BBs from Chile
At 2:30 pm this afternoon I cracked open the plastic container that contained some plump blueberries I had bought a few hours before at the local supermarket. My mouth was watering thinking of the tasty sweet blue fruit that I was planning on combining with some strawberries, granola and some vanilla yogurt. It was going to be great.
As I started rinsing these BBs I started getting annoyed. Many of them - too many! - were mouldy and soft. I was literally throwing money away and I was annoyed with these fruit and with their seller. How could they sell me such garbage? Such low quality produce?
After about one minute of these thoughts, as I started rinsing off the strawberries, I realized that the annoyance should be directed at a different target - myself. How foolish of me, really, to expect fresh, high quality BBs in Canada during the winter season. How could I expect fruits that were picked who knows how long ago, some 8000 kilometres away, to be fresh when they reached the store shelf in this suburb. After being picked, packed, driven, flown, driven (and who knows what else?) how foolish I was.
More frustrating was that this person, me, had debated - for a few seconds while standing in front of the fruit stand - whether or not to spend the coin. Clearly part of me did think it was a pretty foolish purchase.
So my lesson is this, and it should be an obvious one to all....do not buy fruits when they are out of season in your area of the world. At the very least do not buy fruits that are out of season in your hemisphere!
I should have stuck to the local apples that keep well.
Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
As I started rinsing these BBs I started getting annoyed. Many of them - too many! - were mouldy and soft. I was literally throwing money away and I was annoyed with these fruit and with their seller. How could they sell me such garbage? Such low quality produce?
After about one minute of these thoughts, as I started rinsing off the strawberries, I realized that the annoyance should be directed at a different target - myself. How foolish of me, really, to expect fresh, high quality BBs in Canada during the winter season. How could I expect fruits that were picked who knows how long ago, some 8000 kilometres away, to be fresh when they reached the store shelf in this suburb. After being picked, packed, driven, flown, driven (and who knows what else?) how foolish I was.
More frustrating was that this person, me, had debated - for a few seconds while standing in front of the fruit stand - whether or not to spend the coin. Clearly part of me did think it was a pretty foolish purchase.
So my lesson is this, and it should be an obvious one to all....do not buy fruits when they are out of season in your area of the world. At the very least do not buy fruits that are out of season in your hemisphere!
I should have stuck to the local apples that keep well.
Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!
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