Day 27: Random Thoughts

January 22, 2010

This is going to sound insane and stupid, but I thought it was kind of weird and little bit funny. So yesterday at work I had just finished up lunch and I was waiting for a file to upload on my computer. I was just sitting there, staring at this drink carrier that they gave me at Burger King, to obviously hold the drinks I had purchased. I was contemplating throwing the thing out, as I was no longer going to need the thing. Before I throw those things out though, I always completely dismantle them. I don't know why I do this, but I have been doing it for years. When I am finished with one of them, they always end up being in like hundred little tiny pieces.

Anyways, while I was dismantling this thing, I thought it would be a good idea to take a bite out of the drink carrier. This happens to me every so often, where I just feel the urge to take a bit out of non food items. I think I have a mild case of Pica once in a while and I suppose I had a flair up yesterday. So in the middle of me tearing this thing to pieces, I take a bite out of the thing. I don't chew or swallow the thing, I just bite it and spit it out. The thing that I find weird out of all of this though, is that as soon as I bit into it, I got this instant memory back from the Halloween of 1999.

For a split second there, I vividly remembered standing in the foyer of my parents old house with a really good friend of mine. I had just given him a toy Ewok from "Return of the Jedi" and he was about to open the thing. I think we were getting ready to go to a Halloween party that night and we must have been riding together. Now, this is not a memory that I think about very often. In fact, I don't know that I ever remember thinking of this night since it happened. Once I spit the piece of the drink carrier out, I was pretty weirded out by the entire thing. I still finished tearing the thing apart, but I did not take another bite of it. It tasted pretty awful anyways, not that I honestly thought it would taste good.

I just thought that it was kind of strange to have such a vivid flashback on such a unmemorable event. Maybe 'Burger King' puts acid in there food and the drink carrier was just the final straw(Get it, because you use a straw to drink your pop). I don't know why this happened, but I thought it was kind of interesting. You know, interesting in that sort of "There has to be something at least mildly wrong with me" sort of way.