Thursday, August 17, 2017

Odd Egg

I had just gotten back from the grocery store. I wasn't feeling great (this cold is mild, but it lingers), and working roofers snarled traffic, so parking my car became more of an issue than it usually is.

Oh well. I was home. 

As I walked into the house, I managed to just miss the door, but cushioned by the bag of groceries held in front of me. The bag of groceries that housed the dozen eggs... 

Naturally. 

Yup, I had smashed the egg carton, but luckily, I only managed to break one egg. A minor miracle. 

I managed to put the groceries away with no other incident, and I went on with my day. But one thought lingered. I now had an odd number of eggs. 

Silly, I know. But I never use just one egg. It seems like everything requires two. Which meant that unless I found some use for it, I would forever have that extra egg out there. Lingering. I'd never be able to get to even.

Ah well.

The next day at breakfast, I scrambled two eggs. After, I went to rearrange my eggs. I lost the carton they came in, so there was a bit of a juggle to house them in some way. And as I went to put that last egg somewhere... Splat.

It slipped out of my and and ended up on the floor in a big yellow mess.


This is what I get for complaining about one odd egg. Here is where I roll my eyes.

(Yes, it was a slow week. This is the sort of thing that would make an excellent stick figure comic, if I could do that sort of thing.)

28 comments:

  1. LOL. I know what you mean though about having that extra odd egg. Life is off balance until I figure a way to use it (usually will throw it in for a 5 egg omelette for the two of us where we usually just do 2 eggs apiece).

    betty

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  2. I am very protective of eggs when I shop. Coming from India where eggs where a luxury and how my father explained us the value of food, I get very much upset if I waste an egg. Kudos to you for saving that one.

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  3. Dozen minus 2! I have some silly OCD thoughts and adventures, having pairs of eggs are not it! It would not bother me to have an odd count. HAHA

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    1. So, you use one egg at a time? My issue is I always use them in pairs.

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  4. WOO! Shoutout! Also that is exactly the kind of thing I would comic about.

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  5. I had made this cake that took three eggs. It could have been a solution. Ah well, life balanced back out.

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    1. Yes, that would have worked. Had the egg not fallen, I probably would have done something like that.

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  6. Do you not like a boiled egg on a salad? Yum. Sorry about the mess. Hope you feel better.

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  7. Oh well thank goodness, now you won't have to stress about odd numbers.

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  8. This made me laugh. Although I know exactly what those kinds of days feel like!

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    1. Good. I'm glad. It's good to laugh these days.

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  9. I enjoy a good slap up breaky with some eggs myself. I guess the eggs were out of sync with the laws of motion, ah heck I think I need some of your schooling. I'm just a dumb trekker.

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  10. Poor eggs, sad they both had to go the way they did. Now you are even :)

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  11. They won't last long in my household

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    1. They don't last long in mine, either. Even when they aren't slipping from my hands.

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    1. As soon as the egg hit the floor, that's exactly what I was thinking.

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  13. We have 5 dozen eggs in our fridge at present. I eat one a day. Weird I know.

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    1. Yeah, well you keep chickens, so that's to be expected. If I only ate one a day, this wouldn't have been a problem.

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  14. Well I guess that all worked out haha

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  15. Ugh. I'm sorry. Guess you should have had 3 eggs for breakfast that morning? ;) Then again, the egg probably still would have slipped and you would have still had to deal with odd numbers of eggs. *sigh* That's the way things go sometimes.

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    1. Three eggs is too much. One egg is too little. Hence, the odd egg issue. Ah well. It all worked out in the end.

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