So here I was a young lad at
16 years of age. I was working
part-time in a grocery store. I was
working in the produce department. The
managers name was Fred. A very likable
and pleasant guy. He always had a
coffee mug in his hand and a cigarette in his mouth. He really liked smoking and drinking coffee. That coffee mug went everywhere in the store
with him. Once I asked him what type he
did before working in produce. He told
me that he had worked in a dynamite factory.
I was shocked. I said, what about
smoking? He said that smoking wasn't
allowed anywhere in the dynamite factory but he would smoke in the
restroom. I stood in awe at smoking in
a dynamite factory. I know, I was
gullible (and I still am). Looking back
I think that Fred was having some fun fooling a young 16 year old young
man. One other time I asked Fred a
question. There was a strange looking
vegetable that I had never seen before in the produce department.
I asked him what it was. He told me that it was an African mushroom. Yeah, I believed him. Later that day a woman came in and asked if
we had any artichokes for sale. I told
her that we didn't. She said, Oh, there
are the artichokes pointing her finger toward the African mushrooms. I said, no, those are African
mushrooms. She said once again that
they were artichokes but I kept insisting that they were African
mushrooms. She left without buying one
of the African mushrooms (artichokes). Some
doubt started to creep into my head about Fred. Was he telling me the truth and they were
African mushrooms or were they really artichokes and he was he having fun
fooling me. I decided that he was
having fun fooling me and that they were really artichokes. And to this day whenever I see artichokes in
a grocery store the memory of Fred and African mushrooms comes to mind and I
always chuckle a little to myself about it.
African mushrooms, indeed. And
when I did this jigsaw puzzle in the link above I thought once again about Fred
the produce manage. The link above will
take you to a 25 piece version of the puzzle so it will be easy to do. Enjoy.
Lew
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