This is just a bit of a rant after the positive article on our progress on reducing household waste as a family. Yes, and only a few days after. Birthday party season for us. Who decided it was fashionable to have cake, chocolate and sweets for parties, no fun vegetarian food options that are the least bit appetising, naughty and zero waste?
My son was very right to question the extra bottles of pop that add to our waste. Thanks poppet! As for the food options. Don’t let me even go there. A day before February and so I can still theoretically have chocolate. (No more chocolate from February) However, sweets stuffed in mouth and a handful clutched tightly in my fist with the PLASTIC bottle of pop near my side, my daughter innocently decides to give me the news that my favourite sweets are NOT on the vegetarian list. They are definitely on the bad list. The very bad list. The “spit them out now or you die a slow painful death” list.
Do I spit out the sweets and relinquish the touched ones back into the candy bowl. Do I pretend not to hear and just play the game of how many sweeties I can fit in my mouth at once before she repeats what she said. Or do I decide to sweetly say to her,
”Oh thank you darling, you’re such a poppet to remind me.”
I’ll let your imagination run free.
Those sweets won’t.
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