Living on deli time

Open letter to Scupper and Maya: Saturday for fresh orange delivery, I promise! Hopefully you and your cats will be safe from scurvy until then.

Clazy-clazy, the amount that two people can attempt to take with them on a mere two-night trip. We packed, unpacked, and repacked smarter, yet there still seems like too much.

But we don't want to pack too little, and then have it rain all over our one outfit or something. It's a toss-up.

Bunny's foot is officially healed, she's off crutches and out of the boot. But she says the foot is a still a little tender; it's anybody's guess if she'll try for the five-mile hike they've got advertised.

Somebody's mother called me tonight to tell me, confidentially, that her child has never been away from home in her life, not even for sleepovers. Eek! Compound this by, like, forty students, please. Yet they forbid us to bring alcohol. I ask you.

Funny: I was dead tired tonight, so we swung by Raley's grocery store for something very quick for dinner. Standing at the deli, my jaded eyes gradually focused on the glory of this revelation: complete chicken parmesan dinner for four, $13.95.

And the clouds parted, and a heavenly choir of angels sounded. Amen! I bought.

So, later, we're home, and eating like we've been starving. It's like, we cannot get this food into our stomachs fast enough. I couldn't understand why, until somebody remarked that everything tasted exactly like home-cooked. Ah-ha! That's because it was exactly like home-cooked. It made with all-Raley's foodstuff that we buy all the time, right down to the store-brand marinara sauce.

I was all, damn, the only difference between their meal and ours was the location of the kitchen!
Oh, plus the fact I had to pay retail for the dinner. Still, it's tempting to revamp our whole budget and let the grocery store deli cook all our dinners from now on. We don't need gas money, right?

Comments

[Ken]

Given that some 80% of the state's orange crop has been slushified by the Big Chill, I'm thinkin' ya might wanna reconsider givin' 'em away! ... not that I want Maya's cat to get scurvy or anything. :)

[Savvy]

I was definitely thinking about subsidizing some of my income by setting up shop to sell my oranges - wanna go in on it with me?

[scupper]

Thanks for the oranges Bean.