Thursday, February 28, 2008
Found a peanut just now
The other day I was walking into my apartment when I spotted a peanut on the sidewalk. Immediately, I thought of that perennial children's classic, "Found a Peanut" (which is my second-favorite repetitive children's song to sing to myself when I can't fall asleep, right behind "The Ants Go Marching"). I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if I did pick the peanut up, crack it open, see it was rotten and eat it anyway--if I would then get sick, call the doctor, hear that I was going to be fine but die anyway, then be doomed into a never-ending peanut-finding cycle for all eternity when I was rejected by both heaven and hell. At first, I thought it might be kind of cool to have my life mirror the song, but once I thought about all of the inevitable sickness, death and never-ending peanut-finding, I reconsidered.
Apparently, though, there are some children out there who haven't learned the lesson inherent in this song. I was at Five Guys earlier getting a burger for lunch (yum), and I noticed a sign on the door asking patrons to please not take the free peanuts out of the restaurant, as there were neighborhood kids with peanut allergies. I can only imagine that this sign was predicated on the fear that someone would drop a peanut once outside, and then one of these allergic "neighborhood kids" (this Five Guys is located in a strip mall, nowhere near any housing units as far as I can tell, by the way) would see it on the sidewalk and pick it up after thinking, "Cool! It's just like that 'Found a Peanut' song!" Way to go, Five Guys, for preventing innocent children from getting sucked into never-ending peanut-finding cycles.
The other day I was walking into my apartment when I spotted a peanut on the sidewalk. Immediately, I thought of that perennial children's classic, "Found a Peanut" (which is my second-favorite repetitive children's song to sing to myself when I can't fall asleep, right behind "The Ants Go Marching"). I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if I did pick the peanut up, crack it open, see it was rotten and eat it anyway--if I would then get sick, call the doctor, hear that I was going to be fine but die anyway, then be doomed into a never-ending peanut-finding cycle for all eternity when I was rejected by both heaven and hell. At first, I thought it might be kind of cool to have my life mirror the song, but once I thought about all of the inevitable sickness, death and never-ending peanut-finding, I reconsidered.
Apparently, though, there are some children out there who haven't learned the lesson inherent in this song. I was at Five Guys earlier getting a burger for lunch (yum), and I noticed a sign on the door asking patrons to please not take the free peanuts out of the restaurant, as there were neighborhood kids with peanut allergies. I can only imagine that this sign was predicated on the fear that someone would drop a peanut once outside, and then one of these allergic "neighborhood kids" (this Five Guys is located in a strip mall, nowhere near any housing units as far as I can tell, by the way) would see it on the sidewalk and pick it up after thinking, "Cool! It's just like that 'Found a Peanut' song!" Way to go, Five Guys, for preventing innocent children from getting sucked into never-ending peanut-finding cycles.
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