A Conversation About Fruit
Submitted by lishevita on 16 June, 2008 - 14:50
me: Doesn't this plum look like it's been waxed?
coworker (laughing): Yeah. That's weird. It's shiny, isn't it?
me: I didn't think that they waxed fruit in Israel.
coworker (looking bewildered): Like they do in other places?
me: Yeah, in America they wax the fruit you buy in most grocery stores.
coworker: What for?
me: You know, so it looks shiny. Like this. (holding out shiny plum)
coworker: That's just barbaric! Americans are really strange, you know that?
