Showing posts with label onions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label onions. Show all posts

Saturday, July 12, 2008

I Hate Gardening

I'd like to start with a gardening truism. Let's call this gardening truism #1.

"Gardening is Stupid."

Yesterday, I pulled some of the onions. I chopped up about a dozen and put them into zip-lock bags and stuck them in the freezer. My eyes hurt so bad from the chopping that I couldn't see through the tears and had to feel my way to the bath room to rinse out my eyeballs with water twice so I could continue chopping.






Today, almost 24 hours later, the kitchen still smells like onions, the fridge smells like onions, The smell in the freezer is overwhelming, and my hands still smell like onions.

And what do I have to show for my trouble? Onions! If all this work resulted in a lasagna dinner with cheesecake it wouldn't have been worth it but I don't have lasagna or cheesecake, I have stinky little bits of onion.

I could have bought onions at the supermarket in stink-proof plastic bags that would not have made me cry. The amount of work I have to do to earn enough money to buy good chopped onions would have been less time than I had to work to end up with these crappy chopped onions.

This leads me to gardening trusim #2:

"Anything you grow yourself will be crappier than anything you can buy in the supermarket."