Lady...You're an Idiot!!

I work at the Fudge Factory.
We often get really stupid comments and questions.
For example:
What kind of nuts are in the plain chocolate?
ummm.....are you kidding? There are NO nuts in the plain.
Probably one of my favorites is:
Do you guys makes this here? (as Jessie, Dorris, Eli, or Durell are busy over a hot 20lb batch of fudge)
People are just stupid.

I love it when people reach for a sample that is pink (strawberries & cream) and say "Is this the chocolate mint?"

For Halloween we have a couple of seasonal flavors. Cookies & Scream, and Pumpkin Pie.
I had a sample of both of those flavors sitting on the sample tray the other day. A lady and her husband came in and inquired about the flavors. The husband grabbed a sample of Cookies & Scream. (which is oreo cookies crushed up in a very simple vanilla fudge with orange food coloring to make it more festive) After tasting it he made a weird face and said:
"Nothing special about that...it tastes like Penuche (which is a brown sugar fudge with almost a maple flavor) with orange flavoring in it."
I had to hold back my laughter.
Seriously??!?!
Just because it is dyed orange doesn't mean there is orange flavoring! I can guarantee you that if we blind folded 1,000 people and gave them a sample they wouldn't taste ANY orange. And as far as tasting penuche??!?!
Then wife grabbed a sample of pumpkin and quickly recoiled from the counter and said, "WOW!!! TOO MUCH NUTMEG!!!!!"
I couldn't help but say, "Nutmeg huh? We don't put any Nutmeg in it."
I know some people put nutmeg in their pumpkin pie, but we just use the simple libby's pumpkin pie mix which is basically just pumpkin, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice. There might be a little nutmeg in the mix but it is so minute that to say too much nutmeg is hilarious.
Who knows what they were thinking.

Some Kind of Reality

I live my life vicariously through other people.
These "other people" are usually a character in a book, a character in a movie, or a character in a TV show.
Because I do this I sometimes have a hard time separating myself from reality and that is probably why I am a movie/book/tv show crier.
I had a friend recently watch the OC series in reruns. When it came to the end of the series she couldn't help but cry because she had become so attached to the characters and it was like saying goodbye to a friend you'll never see again.
I feel her pain. I willing admit that I know some TV characters better than I know people I consider my friends.
I remember watching Dawson's Creek and thinking "I wonder what Pacey and Joey are doing today." As if they really were in Capeside, Massachusetts living a life and I was allowed to peek in on them every Thursday at 8pm.
I used to sit in the sewing lab at school talking to my fellow One Tree Hill lovers about what had happened in the episode before. People would overhear us and would be so confused because we talked about the characters as if they were our friends and we knew them personally.
My sister called me the other day on the verge of tears because she needed to be brought back to reality after too much Grey's Anatomy.
I'd be willing to bet it happens to more people than would freely admit to it.
Even still, I think I am ok at keeping a grasp on what is fiction and what is reality.
Some people though might be in trouble.
I bet there are some women (and men for that matter) out there who won't rest until they find their Edward Cullen, their Derek Shepard, their Pacey Whitter.
I, on the other hand, KNOW that these characters have skilled writers who work hard to make these people perfect so we keep watching/reading.
But.....it doesn't hurt to dream a little.

Whoop De Duo!

I know back in the day twins were probably novelty. With their lack of prenatal care and all, but we are now in the 21st century and even though twins are fun and exciting they aren't necessarily rare, or a phenomenon of any sort.

This leads me to wonder why people always ask if Jessie and I are twins. We aren't, in case you didn't already know, our couldn't clearly tell from the picture below.

Besides our weight and our hair color we don't look anything alike.
No fail if Jessie and I are working at the Fudge Factory together we get asked if we are twins, and sometimes three or four times a day.
We were walking into wal-mart the other day and the wal-mart greeter lady asked us if we were twins.
It's not like you don't ever see twins, twins are quite common. We had three...I think three...sets of twins while I was in high school and that was out of 100 people, imagine a bigger place. I'm sure there are tons of multiples.

Not only do Jessie and I get asked if we are twins, but if Katy and Jessie and I are all together we will get asked if we are triplets, or if two of us are twins or something.
We look so different, I just don't get it.

(I hope this doesn't come off sounding negative, I don't care if people ask if we are twins but it is just weird that someone would actually ask)