they are still around

We went out tonight and one of us had a bowl full of shrimp. I had a burger. 1/2 a burger actually. We are on our Kern taper. This is when we try and pretend we are dieting, less wine, mojitos, deep friend thin sliced potatoes fom Cesar's, etc...

I have a pretty narrow choice of things that I like to eat. In terms of protein, I unfortunately eat pork and red meat. I'm not at all fond of fish or seafood. And certainly not shrimp. I'm not sure when I stopped liking fish, but I really don't think I ever liked it. But, I know when I was turned off shrimp.

And here is the reason. When I was in elementary school, I bought some of these creatures from an ad in a comic book. They arrived in the mail, and I followed the enclosed directions. A few days later, a crop of weird little floaty things appeared. I was disappointed because the ad in the comic book said you could teach them tricks. Mine never learned tricks and they weren't as cute as the advertisement.

A month or so later, there was a lightning storm outside and my bowl of sea monkeys were sitting near a window. The next morning, all of them were dead. It was really sad. A bowl full of clear looking bodies with little beady black eyes all sitting lifelessly at the bottom. It was sort of gross so I just left the bowl there and didn't clean it up right away. But the weirdest thing was that after a few weeks, a brand new crop came back to life.

From then on, I thought they were pretty weird. Years later, I learned they were brine shrimp. And, this is why I don't eat shrimp.