Organic Mutant

Ever been injured by a raw veggie?

I have. I attempted to open a package of zucchini, a plastic plate shrunk wrapped with celophane: I stabbed through a tense area of the plastic wrap with my index finger, and then, WHAM! CRASH! BURN!!! AARGH!

The momentum of my hand hand penetrated the saran with great ease, then continued its trajectory into the skin and then the meat of an unsuspecting zucchini (formerly hermetically sealed). The thrust of my index finger was stopped only after diggin in to a sufficient amount of impact-resistant zucchini meat. The angle of entry had sent the left edge of my right index fingernail headfirst into to that veggie. This is not a good idea, as the ‘z’ is just soft enough to let a bit of itself become lodged in that netherspace between nail and flesh before impeding additional progress. It burned. It hurt.

I did my best to dig the zuchmeat from the crevasse. But the injury had happened, and z-meat or none, my poor finger and associated fingernail have been quite sensitive ever since (this happened last Wednesday).

Next time I buy veggies from Trader Joe, I will be piercing the packaging with a knife. My finger isn’t cut out for this type of work.