December 14
We food people are about food…we food people bring food. Food is such an easy thing to bring; much less work than figuring out something else more creative. Most everyone I know brings junk to people in the hospital (and I have had a number of nurses in my practice who find the hospital the hardest place of all to work due to all the junk given to them by families and friends of patients). I was thoroughly impressed with a friend who brought a fellow girlfriend all kinds of frivolous magazines and nail polishes. Took much more thought than cookies. Ironically, sugar (a.k.a. white flour) kills white blood cells.
I remember one Christmas when I brought pistachios from Costco supposedly for my brother-in-law (whose favorite food is grapefruit, not pistachios BTW). I opened them within moments of presenting them to him, which was within moments of me arriving at their house. Here’s what had really happened: I was in the snack food aisle in Costco where I had no business being for obvious reasons, saw the nuts, wanted them and used him as a convenient excuse to buy them for myself.
As soon as I hear myself asking, “I wonder who I can buy these for?”, I know it is really not about them. And, how many times have I bought junk “for someone” and, for some truly unforeseen reason, not been able to deliver it to them and ended up eating it myself? Non-perishable gifts have no freshness date.
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