Hmm, is that right? I no longer remember all the differentiations that Fitz came up with.
Anyway, the ice cream story.
So in college, my friends and I always went to the North Campus Incon to spend our points. Usually we bought entire pints of Ben & Jerry's (me - Chubby Hubby, Alison - S'mores) and then would walk over to the ODK fountain eat them and swim (yes we swam in the fountain all of the time... I really am lucky I haven't died of some bacterial disease) or to our rooms to just hang. Needless to say, we didn't really need this ice cream, much less need to eat an entire pint, per person, in one sitting on a fairly regular basis, but we did. In other words though, I loved ice cream, and it was a major part of my "diet" (vs. now where I still love ice cream, but I only have it about once a month - and never an entire pint anymore).
So, in Junior year, for Lent, I gave up ice cream.
What did I do Fat Tuesday then? I ate ice cream. Even though I lived in Somerset, I still went across to the North Campus Incon and got some BJs and started to eat it as I walked across campus. As I was getting to McKeldin I hear the dulcet tones of someone gobbling....obviously trying to get my attention...I look up and see Abi. Stopping to talk, and pry out some ice cream; it was frozen still and getting spoonful wasn't easy.
This is where my memory becomes fuzzy. I think she was with someone else, but I do not remember who. Regardless, we were chit-chatting and I was prying at my Chubby Hubby, most likely to get a peanut butter filled pretzel, when all of the sudden, instead of staying on my spoon, the entire spoonful flies out of the pint, off of the spoon and onto the ground. I looked at Abi. I looked at the ground. I looked at Abi. I bent down picked up the ice cream chunk and ate it anyway.
Definitely more than 5 seconds. Definitely wet, gooey ice cream on a heavily traveled sidewalk. Definitely ate it anyway.
And I liked it.
And, more importantly I didn't die.
Maybe tomorrow I will tell you about the field trip where my professor almost died and the TA had sex with one of the other students.
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OK, first off I think you should explain that "Incon" is short for in-convenience store. Also, I somehow thought that you got a scoop of ice cream and the scoop fell on the ground. If you had a whole pint and dropped a spoonful, I feel that changes the story a bit. . . . I would have left it.
Yea, I think I should have written that whole yore thing down, it was genius, and I've forgotten most of it's permutations. Jesus was in there somewhere.
See, like Court I was also initially picturing an entire ice cream scoop, and was unsure if you just ate some off the top and left the part that actually touched the sidewalk (totally fine), or if you rescued the whole thing, put it back on the cone, and continued eating (that is...less than fine). I'm not going to say it's wrong - let's just say I'm still struggling with the complex and emotive underpinnings of this controversial issue. How would Obama and Ms. Clinton weigh in?
Yeah, like - if it was your last scoop for 6 weeks or whatever, eat it. If it's one spoonful out of a whole pint that's your last pint for 6 weeks . . . I don't know, man. It's a tough call.
Whatever man. I t was a very different time for me.
Also, I never represented it as anything other than a spoonful of ice cream from a pint... you all apparently just tried to make it better in your heads...which thanks I guess for not thinking I am so gross.
I knew it was just a spoonful, but sometimes you need that bit!!
Also, was it gritty?
Oh no, it was just a substantial spoonfull of ice cream, not a scoop. Me, I would've left it, but I don't have the dedication that Turk does. And then again she was facing down a month without ice cream. I might've done it for that.
No, wait. I just picked up a green bean off the kitchen floor at work, washed it off and put it back in the pan. I could've thrown it out but it was REALLY tasty...... so I guess I'm really not much better for being a good 8 years older than we were at the time of the BJs incident.
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