Now Serving Pumpkin Pancakes!!!
“If you can’t handle a random bloated corpse you shouldn’t be watching TV…” As I was sitting at the Breadboard the other morning polishing off an enormous freshly baked Marionberry muffin there was a family at the table next to me trying to decide between the Pumpkin Pancakes and the Eggs Benedict or the monster cinnamon roll or the California Omlette and they were kind of arguing because the teenage daughter thought the firefighters should have been working harder this summer but the Mom was trying to explain that forest fires were different than house fires and it wasn’t about “just working harder” it had a lot to do with topography and weather and then the Dad said the daughter didn’t understand because she just watched too much TV which he thought was too violent and then she made the “bloated corpse” comment and the Dad said so then she sort of agreed with him and anyway with all his problems he thought TV wasn’t worth his time. Then the Mom sort of snapped, “What problems do you have?” And he said he was struggling with baldness, obesity and sleep deprivation. The girl said he was so dramatic and that he was going through a midlife crisis and that his spare tire and expanding forehead was kind of cute and why didn’t he sleep well? He said that was a middle-aged guy thing and he didn’t want to get into it but he really wanted Pumpkin Pancakes and an Omlette and he said starting tomorrow he was going to go on a 14 day juice cleanse followed by an Atkin’s diet for the next 6 months and the mom just laughed and the girl ordered a Mountain Man – which I thought was kind of cool. And I thought about those hardworking firefighters and I was filled with gratitude for their hard work and sacrifice…