1 post tagged “soup bowl”
So today just before 1 pm, I was very hungry. I had forgotten to grab breakfast this morning (due to oversleeping... my life has clearly changed when 6:45 am is "oversleeping"), and had only managed a piece of gum so far in the day. So I go to the kitchen, grab my can of veggie soup and a bowl.
I open the can and start to pour it into the bowl. About half way through doing this, I realize that the soup is not going to fit in the bowl. I continue to pour anyway, and my mind wanders to something else. About three quarters of the way through, I hit the bowl's capacity, and realize with a jolt that I should stop pouring. So I do. I look at the completely full bowl. I look at my can with a fourth of the soup still in it. I wonder what I should do. I don't want to waste the extra soup. And actually I'm hungry. And I want to eat that extra soup, dammit. So I am going to put it in the bowl, be damned!
With no concern for the aftermath, I pour the rest of the soup into the bowl.
Now what did I think would happen? Did I think the bowl would grow? That it was only deceiving me by looking full and that it would actually accommodate the rest of my soup?
No, I believe that I just wanted to eat the soup and to eat it, I needed to put it into the bowl. The laws of space do not apply to my soup bowls. Except that, in a shocking turn of events, they do. And soupy carnage splashes all over the counter tops, wasting the soup I so wanted to consume.
Dammit.
