A Chocolate Bite In The Blind

I was at the age when I had way too many pimples, and the doctor told my mother that I shouldn’t eat chocolate. Well, let me tell you something that might not surprise you at all, that was definitely not my favorite piece of medical advice.

At home, we had a chocolate shelf in the fridge, a shelf that was clearly governed by some mysterious laws of nature because somehow it always emptied itself. And if you asked anyone in the family who ate the chocolate, it was never them. I’m convinced now that it must have been a tiny black hole living in our fridge, making the chocolate disappear. I obviously had nothing to do with this, Right? 😇

But let me tell you what happened one time when I admit I was tempted by the forbidden treasure.

Someone rang the doorbell, my mother went to open the door, and that was my golden opportunity. I opened the fridge fast, grabbed whatever was in the forbidden shelf, and ran to the safety of my room to enjoy the stolen goods.

I jumped on my bed and opened the package of happiness, my mouth already watering at the thought of the brown gold melting gently on my tongue.

I took the first bite of what felt like perfectly shaped chocolate cubes... And the experience was awful .

Turns out, I had just stolen — and bitten into — a vegetable stock cube my grandmother had placed there for cooking. Salty, bitter, confusing. Basically the opposite of joy.

One would expect that after this incident, I’d have learned not to visit the forbidden shelf again. But no, no, no, I simply developed better classification techniques, A true innovator in chocolate acquisition.

Did you ever think you were about to eat something amazing and ended up biting into something that should not be eaten ? And most importantly: did you have a technique for stealing chocolate when sighted people are not looking? 😄