She still surprises me...

[Daniel Meyer]

We get this really good Trail Mix at Sams Club...the brand is Member's Mark (Sam's brand) and it's normally very good quality.

It comes in a three-pound package. It has M&M's, almonds, raisins, peanuts, and cashews.

Salty and sweet. Crunchy and chewy. And reasonably nutritious for a snack etc.

Except lately...it hadn't been as tasty. I looked at the package we bought and opened a couple days ago, and it had no cashews in it. None. Zero.

Bummer. Says on the label it should. Has everything else. Still tasty, just not quite the same.

Took the more than half-full bag back to Sams. They cheerfully gave me a new one. I could see in the new package that it has cashews. The returns lady looked at the one I brought back and said, "Wierd."

Sooooo....I get home from work today...hungry. Grab the bag of trail mix...the one I got yesterday...and started munching.

You guessed it, no cashews. None. Zero.

I *KNOW* it had 'em. I saw 'em in the package when I got it. The returns clerk pointed them out and I agreed that the new bag was not defective.

I began to suspect. Surely not. But it couldn't be anything else.

"Honey?" I asked the wife as I held up the bag, "what the heck happened to all the cashews in here?"

She blushed clear to her toes...which answered the question.

She picked them all out and ate them.

Every last one.

"I just like the cashews."

Yeah, I think I get that.

We could just *buy* a bag of cashews...

And then I looked. We have a can of cashews in the cupboard.

18 years and she still surprises me. I'm still chuckling. Life is ever so much more interesting with loved ones and friends in your life!

Should I try to explain this to Sams?

[hotglue #43]

Just be glad ya don't have a bowl full of soggy peanuts.... where someone sucked the chocolate off the M&M's, but doesn't care for the peanuts....

[ptgb]

Have a cousin, that when he was young, didn't like corn on the cob, but loved melted butter. Used to roll the corn on the stick of butter and then lick off the butter... then try to put the corn back...

[legender]

I know the feeling... we buy the same trail mix from Sams and I add extra M&Ms as I love the chocolate.  But at my house my wife likes everything but the almonds... I usually buy them for my motorcycle trips and separate into smaller bags and bring the left overs home... that's when I end up with two or three bags of only almonds.  Drives me crazy, but gotta love 'em... wives that is.

[Daniel Meyer]

Just be glad ya don't have a bowl full of soggy peanuts.... where someone sucked the chocolate off the M&M's, but doesn't care for the peanuts....

LOL! You're right! That's much worse!

[Big IV]

Your wife has a point. The cashews are better in trail mix. The added salt and other flavors really snaz them right up. You should go ahead and dump her cashews in and shake them up a bit. The mix does make it better.


My Dad was eating rasins out of his desk drawer once while talking on the phone before he happened to think, "when did I buy rassins" and "where did the rasinets go?" at about the same time. Turns out a rat had gotten into his desk drawer (he left them open at times) and sucked the chocolate off.  He later saw the rat running through the shop at lightspeed. Later in the day the rat was laying dead in the middle of the floor, Dad assumed from a heart attack because of the extra chocolate in his system.
Yup, could be worse.