Marshall was supposed to bring a piece of fruit to school today for a special science class about different types of seeds. When the teacher sent out a sign-up list last week, I signed Marshall up to bring an orange. We always have oranges around, sometimes even several varieties, so I thought it would be easy.
But last night it occurred to me that most oranges are seedless. In fact, I couldn’t remember the last time I’d found a seed. So I was pretty sure that the navel orange he had chosen was going to be a dud.
I ransacked the produce drawer. There were two types of oranges. Both turned out to be seedless. They didn’t even have noticeable vestigial seeds. Argh. I was just about to give up when I found a lemon. I thought, “Why not?” Lemons always seem to have seeds, perhaps because no one has bothered to breed a seedless variety. So I put the lemon in the bag with the orange, just in case.
It only just occurred to me how funny that is—I didn’t want to send my kid to school with a dud, so I gave him a lemon!