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August 20, 2006
People for the Ethical Treatment of Cucumbers
Luke told me the cutest story last week. Apparently, when he was a kid, like ten years old, his parents sent him to one of those traditional summer camps where they go canoeing, sleep in cabins with bunk beds, and attempt to show the city kids a country way of life. The big excitement was that on Saturdays, the kids were allowed to go to the fruit and vegetable stand down the road and purchase the fruit or vegetable of their choice with the dollar or two their parents would provide. All the kids would buy peaches, plums, or berries. But Luke, invariably, purchased a cucumber, and ate it, with a dash of salt (they had a salt shaker right there for just this purpose) at the stand. His fellow children thought he was really, really weird. They were right of course.
On Thursday I brought him a gift of some Kirby pickles from the Allentown Farmers' Market. We sat in his office eating them whole out of the bag. After VLC quit, I had been afraid that I would never find a fellow organizer who loves vegetables the way I do. My fears have now been put to rest. A man who eats cucumbers out of the bag, whole, as a snack, is worthy of the office next door to me.
Posted by april at August 20, 2006 4:39 PM