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The Slice: He’ll take your extra veggies
Someone has to do it.
So I suppose it might as well be me.
Yes, I’ll take the surplus produce from your garden. Consider it a public service.
No need to thank me. I’m happy to do it.
After all, somebody has to, right?
Here’s the way I see it. Your garden has yielded way more than you and your immediate neighbors can consume. I need to eat more fruits and vegetables.
It’s a win-win.
OK, donating to food banks set up to receive and dispense perishables might be a better way to unburden yourself of this year’s bumper crop.
And there’s always the plan of bringing your overflow harvest to your workplace. Or putting it out by the curb beneath a “Free” sign.
Of course, those last two strategies have drawbacks. Need I remind you? So I pledge never to say, “Gee, these are kind of puny.”
Nor will I hold up a tomato or onion and make a face usually reserved for reactions to colorectal probing.
So if you have too much of a good thing, I’m your solution.
But please, no zucchini.
Making it worth his while: “My husband had surgery to replace his heart valve,” said North Idaho’s Carol Nelson. “When he told the nurse that he had never been in the hospital before, she said, ‘Go big or go home!’ ”
Attitude adjustment: When Brenda Brown was a high school secretary up in Newport she watched students walk in the front door, head straight into the bathroom and come out with a totally different “look.”
If that revised style was inappropriate, the principal had a drawer full of T-shirts for such occasions.
Your reaction to a neighbor posting a “For Sale” sign: Nancy Clemons and another neighbor approached the man and demanded, “How could you?”
The sign-poster explained. Nancy and her other neighbor listened and then did the only thing they could. They wished him well.
“But we will miss him very much.”
Warm-up question: Could you identify a lake just by the smell of the water?
Today’s Slice question: What did you learn from the experience of taking communal showers after PE class?