Siobhan Connally’s Ittybits & Pieces: ‘Ding-ding-ding.’ |
I had been holding open the refrigerator door long enough to make it antsy.
I could almost hear my mother’s disapproval over the icebox’s sound of alarm. “You’re letting out all the cool air. Why don’t you just make a selection already!”
What I can’t decide is what looks good here. Leftovers? Salad? Something requiring no small amount of preparation and a much larger portion of skill?
I selected something from a box on the shelf before I started the chimes. Something prepackaged.
My teeth bear down on a corner of a hard-pressed bar of peanut-flavored protein. I will my teeth to cut slowly, hoping to preserve my teeth, which may have reached the age of random........