Rule #1: Don’t take advice from me.
I’ve said it before and meant it. I didn’t end up a hermit in the desert because of my great people skills. I got this great idea for showing appreciation to my neighbors by baking and distributing a bunch of banana bread, right? So far so good. Put the bread in some grocery bags and loaded the boys into the Jeep to make my rounds.
The problem is, I didn’t think what to do if they weren’t home. And nobody was home. So I just hung the bags from locked gates or front doors. Leave a note? Naw. I’d use the excuse that I didn’t have anything with me to write on, but the truth is the thought never entered my mind.
And this, unknown to me, kicked off the Great Banana Bread Mystery. People burned up many cell phone minutes calling around, trying to figure out who the hell left all this banana bread lying about. My neighbor H stopped J from eating it for fear it might be poisoned or something: I’m lucky she didn’t chuck it in the trash. In fact, for all I know she did.
It went on for some time, because nobody thought of me as the possible culprit. When it finally got back to me, I was almost too embarrassed to fess up.
Its a sad world we live in when the first thing people think about is poison but I some nut job has done that some where guess ya better just stick to being a hermit leaving bread on neighbors door would probably be a crime here you know it aint been inspected and all
I proves how far out in the desert you really live. 1) the bread was not stolen, 2) nobody called the cops or bomb squad. The fears of poisoning is just karmic residue from some of your neighbors haveing spent to much time in the city.
I used to leave bags of zucchini and tomatoes on doorsteps occasionally when I was overwhelmed with it… only a few people really objected. But I’ve been on the receiving end of that sometimes too. We used to have an outsized mailbox at the farm… and we found amazing things in it sometimes. LOL Once was a really large frog! The kid who put it in there never confessed either. LOL
But nobody would have even thought about stuff like that being poisoned or explosive… a different era, for sure.
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