While in England I became aware a very delicious snack – prawn cocktail crisps. I can get them occasionally here, but it isn’t a huge priority for me. Today, while shopping in a distant hood, I found and purchased a bag of shrimp chips. Although it wasn’t the brand I preferred, I thought I would try them out.
I took them with me to work (at the furniture store), opened the bag and offered them to others, “shrimp chips?” The smell was pretty strong and so was the response I received, “Ew, no,” said one of my coworkers who stuck her nose into the bag. “If you don’t put your nose in it, it’s good,” I advised. The operator (yes, we still have telephone operators at this store), who typically sits quietly and unseen by most, quipped and then giggled like a school girl, “That’s true for most things.”
That was both true and a little too much information. As Muhammad Ali once said, “Only the nose knows, where the nose goes, when the door close.”