Back me up on this. I work at the corporate headquarters of a large, high profile department store chain. Today at work someone dropped off the most beautiful apple pie at the reception desk. This thing is unbelieveably scrumptious-looking. I’m guessing this is a $30 pie. It was addressed to my department and an attached (handwritten but impersonal card) said that it was from one of the vendors that works with us. It was in an unsealed box (just a ribbon around it) and unexpected. When someone in my department called his contact at the vendor, they said they didn’t really remember sending over a pie but you’re welcome anyway. Suddenly, everyone is freaking out about the pie. Someone even wondered out loud if we should call the police. No one wanted this lovely pie! Finally I said I would take the freaking pie and enjoy every last bite thank you very much. I bring it home. My fiancee asks where I got it. I relate the story above…
…and she freaks!
She thinks I’m insane. Now she’s got me thinking maybe I am insane. Maybe I shouldn’t eat this pie. I’ve got to tell you though, this thing looks delicious. What’s your opinion? Would you eat this pie?
Don’t Eat It!! It sounds suspicious…I mean first of all it unsealed? and you don’t know who the donor was? For god’s sake it could have laxatives in them or… NOOOOOO!!! Maybe it’s from a disgruntled customer. Anyways throw that damn thing away!
if it’s poison, try and post here in your death throes, so sandalwood can say “i told you so”, and we can all laugh at the silly person who ate poison and died.
Hey check in Candlemas, did you eat it? Damn that pie sounds yummy. I hope no terrorist ever sends me a pie like that cause I don’t think I’d resist. Did it have the crumbly stuff on top? yumm. After you chow down and come into work the next day, I’ll bet everyone will feel like a paranoid fool. I mean really, it was the day after halloween, folks.
Oh, for cripes sake. Eat the pie. Must we all be paranoid freaks?
Look at it this way: if Sept 11 and all the subsequent things never happened, would you eat the pie? If so, then you should eat the pie now. If not, then don’t.
I really don’t think the next big terrorist plot is to poison the gluttonous Americans with Anthrax pies.
Before Sept 11th, it would already be digested by now… You guys freak me out! Without seeing all this I would have eaten it anyway, but now I am scared!
I’d eat the pie. With a big scoop of french vanilla ice cream. There’s no question about it.
By the way, I love your screen name, Candlemas. There’s nothing like a feastday specifically set up to bless candles. I love being a Catholic! My second favorite feastday is the feast of St. Blaise - the blessing of throats (done, oddly enough, with candles).
Yes I did. It was even more delicious than I suspected. I not only ate the pie, I savored it, three slices to be precise, served at room temperature with a few thick slabs of English Cheddar. It was easily the best apple pie I have ever had and believe me when I say that I have had a lot of apple pie in my life. It was stuffed at least two inches thick with no less than three different types of apples, the crust was golden and flaky, and the top had little baked crumbles in the shapes of stars on it.
After I read sandalwood’s first post (I didn’t even consider a disgruntled employee!) I decided not to eat the pie. I thought to myself, “Candlemas, you must be insane!” But then I had a few beers and the fiancee went to sleep and I found myself looking at the pie. Staring at it. After a little while I said to myself, “Candlemas…eat that goddamn pie!” So I did.
When everyone at work found out that I ate the pie they didn’t seem to think any less of themselves for not eating the pie. They seemed to just smugly chalk it up to the fact that I am a moron with no concern for his personal well being. Which may not be that far from the truth, but I have experienced no ill effects from the pie as yet.
good on you , damnit this is getting a bit like lap dancing you can drool you can imagine the touch (and maybe the taste ) but you can’t touch due to the distance the WWW holds between the pie and me , (course touching in lapdancing = a severe beating by the gorillas on the door)
I admire Candlemas for the courage. But I wouldn’t have eaten the pie because i AM a paranoid freak. There’s too many wackos out there who have absolutely no qualms about shooting up daycares and post offices, murdering store clerks for a few bucks, beating up their children, placing anthrax bacteria in envelopes disguised as fourth grade fan letters, putting laxativesor marijuana in brownies for their hated coworkers, or cooking poison in an apple pie just to see what would happen.
I’m glad you’re OK Candlemas and glad you enjoyed your pie. But CHEESE??? and not ICE CREAM???
Super"paranoidfreak"Lorie
) but you can’t touch due to the distance the WWW holds between the pie and me , (course touching in lapdancing = a severe beating by the gorillas on the door)