A Cautionary Tale
Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:05 am
Here is a cautionary tale, a true story. I urge the squeamish to stop reading now forget this thread exists and go on with your normal happy life free from the horror I am about to reveal to those who can not, or simply refuse to look away.
It happened one night a few years ago, in fact it only recently feels like enough time has elapsed since the actual event that I am able to safely recall the incident. It was a night like many others I had finished up in the studio late as usual and feeling tired but also a bit hungry I decided to grab a snack from the kitchen and then sit and wind down while watching something on TV. Had I known how things would progress I would have hurried to bed.
I admit I was lazy, I was tired I just wanted something to ease my craving. I wandered out into the dark kitchen, and it was dark no lights on and it took a few seconds for me to even see my way to the cabinet. Had I walked just 5 more steps I would have been able to easily reach out and flick on the light. Light I would regret forgoing.
I reached the cabinet and peered into what seemed to be a large black hole in the already nearly absent lighting. I paused only a moment and then began to feel around in the cabinet. Familiar shapes at once took form as I felt my way among canned vegetables and boxes of spiral macaroni. My hand brushed against a large can and I smiled remembering I had bought a big can of pumpkin to make bread that weekend. I thought I had a bag of cookies or something and I fished around feeling more pantry items.
At any time I could have just simply turned on the light, made my life easier, but
I blundered on. Finally a familiar shape. A box of raisins, I .....loved raisins so sweet
and healthy. The perfect little snack. I took my prize and made my way to the TV room
and sat in my recliner.
I turned on the TV and caught the late news. Again I decided to keep the lights low and the only illumination came from the flickering glow of the
comforting television screen. I looked at my box of raisins, Sunmaid, I could tell because of the girls face staring back from the box. Funny I thought, I dont recall buying these raisins but here they are and I was in need of a snack.
I opened the box, I grabbed a few raisins, and tossed them into my mouth. they were in deed sweet. A little dry maybe....perhaps stale I thought as some of the raisins were a bit chewy. I ate another handful and another. I watched the weatherman doing his schtick in a dreamy absent kind of way letting my body relax. I ate yet another handful of raisins. This time though, just out of the corner of my eye I thought I detected a flash of something white as I had popped that last handful of raisins into my mouth. The raisins I was eating were not the white or green kind but the traditional brown raisin color. At first I thought a stem might have gotten mixed in with the raisins or maybe a bit of fuzz from the pillow I was holding. I didn't feel anything different in my mouth nothing really hard or anything abnormal. I reached in and grabbed another handful of raisins out of the box. There on my palm more white. I couldnt quite see in the dim light so I stretched over and gently pulled the chain on the light.
Light flooded the room and at first I shut my eyes to the brightness but then I looked down at my hand. Thats when I saw it........
There right in my hand, what I had been eating, chewing and swallowing for the better part of 5 min now. Were, raisins and......wriggling, pale, segmented, worms!!!!!!
they were very small and of a variety I had never seen before. I sat stunned for a moment at the horror of my discovery and then realizing I had them in my mouth I went running to bathroom and quite litleraly lost it. I stood staring at my pale complexion in the mirror trying to focus and keep my now empty stomach quiet. Maybe I thought there were only a couple and chances are I ate only one. Not so bad, bad enough, but
maybe. I reluctantly walked back into the TV room and picked up the box I had pitched onto the snack table when I ran to the bathroom. It took a lot of courage but I looked down inside the box to realize there were nearly more worms than raisins. I nearly became sick again. .......well if there is a moral to this tale it is always but always turn on a light when picking out food to eat, and make sure you look at that food before you pop it carelessly into your mouth. You never know when it might be full of worms.
To this day I am unable to eat a box of raisins even in the brightest sunshine.
Eat in the dark at your own risk. I hope my tale may save others from my fate!
It happened one night a few years ago, in fact it only recently feels like enough time has elapsed since the actual event that I am able to safely recall the incident. It was a night like many others I had finished up in the studio late as usual and feeling tired but also a bit hungry I decided to grab a snack from the kitchen and then sit and wind down while watching something on TV. Had I known how things would progress I would have hurried to bed.
I admit I was lazy, I was tired I just wanted something to ease my craving. I wandered out into the dark kitchen, and it was dark no lights on and it took a few seconds for me to even see my way to the cabinet. Had I walked just 5 more steps I would have been able to easily reach out and flick on the light. Light I would regret forgoing.
I reached the cabinet and peered into what seemed to be a large black hole in the already nearly absent lighting. I paused only a moment and then began to feel around in the cabinet. Familiar shapes at once took form as I felt my way among canned vegetables and boxes of spiral macaroni. My hand brushed against a large can and I smiled remembering I had bought a big can of pumpkin to make bread that weekend. I thought I had a bag of cookies or something and I fished around feeling more pantry items.
At any time I could have just simply turned on the light, made my life easier, but
I blundered on. Finally a familiar shape. A box of raisins, I .....loved raisins so sweet
and healthy. The perfect little snack. I took my prize and made my way to the TV room
and sat in my recliner.
I turned on the TV and caught the late news. Again I decided to keep the lights low and the only illumination came from the flickering glow of the
comforting television screen. I looked at my box of raisins, Sunmaid, I could tell because of the girls face staring back from the box. Funny I thought, I dont recall buying these raisins but here they are and I was in need of a snack.
I opened the box, I grabbed a few raisins, and tossed them into my mouth. they were in deed sweet. A little dry maybe....perhaps stale I thought as some of the raisins were a bit chewy. I ate another handful and another. I watched the weatherman doing his schtick in a dreamy absent kind of way letting my body relax. I ate yet another handful of raisins. This time though, just out of the corner of my eye I thought I detected a flash of something white as I had popped that last handful of raisins into my mouth. The raisins I was eating were not the white or green kind but the traditional brown raisin color. At first I thought a stem might have gotten mixed in with the raisins or maybe a bit of fuzz from the pillow I was holding. I didn't feel anything different in my mouth nothing really hard or anything abnormal. I reached in and grabbed another handful of raisins out of the box. There on my palm more white. I couldnt quite see in the dim light so I stretched over and gently pulled the chain on the light.
Light flooded the room and at first I shut my eyes to the brightness but then I looked down at my hand. Thats when I saw it........
There right in my hand, what I had been eating, chewing and swallowing for the better part of 5 min now. Were, raisins and......wriggling, pale, segmented, worms!!!!!!
they were very small and of a variety I had never seen before. I sat stunned for a moment at the horror of my discovery and then realizing I had them in my mouth I went running to bathroom and quite litleraly lost it. I stood staring at my pale complexion in the mirror trying to focus and keep my now empty stomach quiet. Maybe I thought there were only a couple and chances are I ate only one. Not so bad, bad enough, but
maybe. I reluctantly walked back into the TV room and picked up the box I had pitched onto the snack table when I ran to the bathroom. It took a lot of courage but I looked down inside the box to realize there were nearly more worms than raisins. I nearly became sick again. .......well if there is a moral to this tale it is always but always turn on a light when picking out food to eat, and make sure you look at that food before you pop it carelessly into your mouth. You never know when it might be full of worms.
To this day I am unable to eat a box of raisins even in the brightest sunshine.
Eat in the dark at your own risk. I hope my tale may save others from my fate!
gross I'd throw up everywhere. I'm never eating with out turning on the lights again.
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