Justification
October 29, 2011
This
started as a shower scene. No actual
showers are involved in this story… and it’s not what you think. This is totally kid and work friendly. See disclaimer below.
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“Ahem,”
the sudden voice clearing startled Joel in to dropping the second cupcake back
onto the plate.
“Ack, Blair… don’t give me a heart
attack,” Joel said as he guiltily turned toward the smaller man.
“I won’t
have to,” Blair stated, glaring at Joel’s plate. “You’re going to do it to yourself. Do you want to regain all the weight that you
lost?”
“These
are gluten free and made with applesauce,” Joel said as he waved the remaining cupcake aloft.
“Heck, these cupcakes are so good for me I should probably have three or
four. You know,
the whole ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away,’” Joel said taking a
bite of cupcake.
“Cupcakes
do not have the same health benefits as apples,” Blair rolled his eyes at the
lame excuse.
“Besides,”
Joel continued, ignoring Blair’s comment, “the cupcakes are going to be stale
tomorrow, so we should finish them off so that the baker doesn’t get
offended. Hmm, wonder if stale cupcakes
work the same way that broken cookies do,” Joel rubbed his chin in
contemplation, knocking off a few stray crumbs in the process.
“Broken
cookies?”
“Come
on, Blair. You’re a health nut, how can
you not know this stuff?” Joel asked his palms up in supplication. “Broken cookies don’t have as many calories
as whole cookies… some of the calories leak out when they break. But, you can’t take a whole cookie and break
it yourself. That doesn’t work. Someone else has to break the cookie for you,
then it’s okay.
And if they break a cookie for you, you should do the same for
them. What are friends for after all?”
“Joel! How on earth did you lose weight if you use
that rational?” Blair asked.
“By
staying away from the break room during birthday celebrations!”
“Sounds
like you should keep doing that,” Blair said with a smile as he covered the
cupcakes. “Come with me. I think I have a real apple in my backpack.”
“It’s
not going to be the same,” Joel remarked casting a sad glance over his shoulder
at the lonely cupcakes.
The end
Feedback
is greatly appreciated. CherylR
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Disclaimer: Okay so the shower scene was my daughter
coming in while I was taking a shower and asking how many cupcakes she could
have for dessert. I told her that she
could have two ‘cause they would go stale fast. After she left, it hit me that I was a bad
mom. I should have told her that she
could have two ‘cause they were small and/or ‘cause
she ran around for over an hour today during her soccer game and had worked the
extra calories off. No, I told her to
eat more ‘cause they were going to go stale. Sigh.
Does anyone want to start contributing to my kids’ therapy visits? They are going to have tons of issues after
so many years of living with me. It did
lead to this story, so I guess that may be considered a win for me… now I have
something that I can loosely claim as dues.
I certainly angsted over it.