Bad Blueberries

It's always a bit of a disappointment to pick up a little container of blueberries and JUST as you're fixin' to put them in your grocery basket discover that there is that nasty fruit hair thing starting to grow on those in the bottom. But you get over your disappointment and take another box -- only to see the SAME THING.

So now you're bummed. You really wanted blueberries, because the last batch was so good they made your mouth water. You try to convince yourself that maybe the Fruit Hair thing is only attacking that ONE eensy blueberry, and that if you hustle that little box home really fast, you can save all the others.

Nah. You know that Fruit Hair, once begun, will take over all the nice blueberries that are having to live in that box, so you put them ALL back in the produce section.

Then you start to feel bad about doing that, because what if the next person who really wants blueberries isn't as careful as you were about checking? And what if that person BUYS those Hairy Blueberries and eats them and gets really, really sick, and the next thing you know they are just another headline for the Drudge Report: BUSY MOTHER OF EIGHT DISABLED CHILDREN FALLS ILL AFTER EATING HAIRY BLUEBERRIES.

And you really wrestle with this for, like, 15 minutes. And then you decide you have to tell somebody but everybody you know will decide you have either had too much caffeine or maybe not quite enough.

So you just sit down and write a Hairy Blueberry Blog.

And you feel better.