An Apple a Day Keeps the Donut Neutralized

Cowgrit snuck an apple into my backpack (read: my professional brief case). She tries very hard to keep me healthy. It’s an uphill push for her.

Around 10:00 in the morning, the cereal I had for breakfast was wearing off and I was needing a snack. I pulled out the apple and sat it on my desk. It’ll be good, I thought. If it wasn’t right here at hand, I’d have probably gone to the vending machine and got something the nurse wouldn’t approve of.

Before I got to my first bite of the apple, though, an email came in. Donuts were in the break room to celebrate the birthdays for November. Ooh, donuts.

I looked at the apple on my desk. I looked at the email. I looked at the apple. I looked at the email.

Then I remembered the science of nutrition: good food makes up for bad food. Right?

I abandoned the apple and went to get a donut. Mmmm. Yum. It was Krispy Kreme.

But the apple was still sitting there on my desk when I got back. It seemed to be looking at me with a slightly disapproving glare. I think I heard it politely clear its throat. “Ahem,” it whispered. “Don’t forget me.”

I ate the apple, too. So that should have canceled out the donut, right? So my nutritional balance still hovers right in the middle, right?

It made Cowgrit happy when I told her I ate the apple. I didn’t tell her about the donut. I mean, who am I to spoil her satisfaction?

Bullgrit