It's Just a Cucumber
Saturday I went shopping with my friend MP. (She has been helping me with my finances and was showing me how to do my grocery shopping with less money). We were checking out our groceries at the self-checkouts. MP was at one and I was at another. Not a big deal normally, but this time it was. I was scanning my purchases when I came to the grapes. I needed to look up the item and could not remember the word "grapes". It was only for a moment, so, no big deal. I scanned a couple more items and then I came to the cucumber. What an unassuming vegetable a cucumber is. It is green like so many other vegetables and Its flavor is fairly bland so I like to add seasoning salt and lime or ranch dressing. It is not a very expensive vegetable either and yet It stole something from me. You see, I couldn't remember the word "cucumber". Unlike the word "grape", the word for this unassuming vegetable refused to come to my mind. It seemed the harder I searched for the...