It's me again, here to tell you a little more (at a better hour, I might add).
I figure you're probably wondering where I got this idea of how people eat sandwiches. Or as I mentioned in the first post, "the back story".
Well, in the words of my favorite TV detective..."Here's what happened..."
It was a Tuesday in July, and I was at a birthday party. The birthday girl, one of my best friends, I hadn't seen in over a week, none of my friends had. She had been away on vacation.
It was unfair really, that she was having her birthday party now. The rest of us were going on vacation the week of her birthday, which is why she was forced to celebrate it so early.
Anyway, the point is, after the hugs and the hellos, our first task was to make some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to take with us while we were out for her party. The birthday girl started to make the sandwiches.
However, it didn't take us long to realize that she made them much differently than how we each were accustom to. Each guest had a preference as to how they preferred their peanut butter and jelly. And I don't just mean what type of jam.
Somehow, our discussion shifted after a bit to each person's eating habits. Someone said how one person nibbled, whereas another took big bites. One held the sandwich upright, where as the other cut it diagonally and held it sideways. Pretty soon we were demonstrating how we ate our sandwiches.
It was strange to me, the fact that we could talk for so long and so passionately about how we ate peanut butter and jelly, when really, we should have been catching up after not seeing each other for an entire week. The biggest argument we'd ever had...about something so simple. It intrigued me.
Time passed, and the whole ordeal never left my mind. I wondered, how do people eat peanut butter and jelly? Is everyone different? What does this say about who they are?
The discussion reminded me of a quote I found once, said by Ronald Regan.
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans"
Sure, these aren't jellybeans, but it is the same idea, isn't it?
How much can we tell by the way someone eats a sandwich, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Well, that's what I want to know.
Until next time, bread and butter.
Judy
NOTE: Link to where I found the quote: http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/128.html
No comments:
Post a Comment