Ah the season is here for stuffing…er, that is fine cuisine to feed the
hungry during the holidays. No, you aren’t going to the shelters and feeding
the homeless, instead you will present your best china loaded with enough grub
to your family and friends to require checking with your plumber and getting
additional air fresheners.
That means, of course, more trips to the Tummy Temple.
As a frequent flyer I am accustomed to the panic surges and the long
wait lines so I try to use down times to avoid the crowds, but tis’ the season
for wanton cooking and feasting and gorging and let us not forget the
consumption of alcohol in various forms. It all requires ‘patience’ and I’m in
no hurry so I watch the seasonal madness with glee.
Yet there seems to be trouble in the Kingdom of Nourishment. Every aisle
is stacked high with pallets of boxes full of crackers, cereal, mac &
cheese, cola, candy and other tempting items of delicious but they have to be
put out on the shelves. Some person employed by the Temple for they will wear
the uniform has to be assigned to stack and sort and register each item in its
proper place for the parishioners to partake and fill their passing
basket.
Yet there are few assembling the riches of the Temple. Those who are
putting out the cheese doodles and curly fries are overwhelmed by the chore at
hand to distribute the pillars of human requirement for existence. The others,
with minimal skills, have been ordered to the conveyor belts to keep the ever growing
wait lines down as is a critical mission of the Temple.
On today’s venture onto the movie of life, the efforts show improvement
but today it is meeting day and now the aisles are stuffed with people catching
up and not attending to their squirming yard apes or the task at hand. This
movie changes everyday and I stop occasionally (out of the way, of course) to
take in the spectacle and enjoy how humanity hunts for food now. There is a
cart loaded with sweet soda pushed by a rather large individual who can barely
push it, another sniffs the melons but not the carrots, yet each curious
creature is here for one purpose and I shouldn’t tally but get on my way to
free up a cart and allow another individual to buy a ticket to this show. I
speak to the stars of the show and must remember on December 25th the
curtain comes down so stock up.
This is such a wonderful performance I’ll be back again for the matinee.
Where is the popcorn?
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