You know that weird person who stands at the tomato section of the supermarket, counting the tomatoes in the packet? Well, that's me. I like the number 6 for lunches - 6 small tomatoes, 6 snow peas. I don't go so far as to count baby spinach leaves, or the number of cuts in the avocado, or the number of pieces of meat (if it's a meat day).
At the start of the school year, I tried the 'Romatherapy' variety (like mini Roma tomatoes). The first couple of weeks, each packet had 12 tomatoes - perfect. Six for each day. Not knowing if this was a coincidence, I started counting the number of tomatoes in each packet before I put one in my basket. And a good thing, too - the third (and every subsequent) week, I had to try a few packets of 13 before I found a 12. Today, I thought I'd picked one with 12. Obviously, I can't count. Making tomorrow's lunch this evening, I found I had 15. Agh!
I honestly felt a dilemma, and more than a moment of indecision. Should I still use 6 tomatoes but have 3 leftover for Thursday - which would then require a meal with only 3 tomatoes? That didn't seem right, so I settled for 5. This feels wrong. Only 5 tomatoes means only 5 snow peas, too. No way I could have 5 of one and 6 of the other.
I'm sure I won't really notice this tomorrow, especially as I will be teaching from 7:30 am - 5 pm without any breaks, so meal time will be during student time as well. Fingers crossed I don't stress out over only having 5 tomatoes. Yes. I'm weird.
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