Nuts!

Every year at Christmas, I get a gift at work of a tin of mixed nuts from one of the salesmen that stops by here. And now, the nuts are gone.

Well not exactly. You see, I mainly just go through and pick out the cashews and pecans, leaving the almonds, Brazil nuts, and those other little nuts they put in there. Okay, so I do occasionally eat an almond or two, and maybe one of the others, just to make sure that I still don't care as much for them as for the others.

So now I'm left with a tin of nuts that I won't eat. What's a guy to do? In a way, I feel guilty about just throwing them away. I thought about taking them home and dumping them out in the yard for the squirrels and whatever other animals might want them. But I would think they probably don't need all the salt that is on there, and whatever else they might use to dress them up.

And then I would also feel guilty saying to the salesman, "Hey buddy, next time just bring cashews. Or even just a jar of salted peanuts!" Can't really complain, because then he might not bring anything at all. Or even worse, he might switch to fruitcake. Then I'd really have a problem!