and i feel fine.

Okay so there's a “quirky” guy at work... Who has some weird eating habits. One might say he’s not unlike the last survivor of a desperate race. Small, slightly gaunt, with large yet shifty eyes- and a shaved head. It really doesn’t help that he wears gray sweatshirts or fails to have a clean shave in the morning, let alone the trucker hats.

Today I saw him duck into Wendy's on our way to work and then he appears later with like a bag full of cans. Can drive for a local charity? um, no. It's all spinach. Canned spinach. He's stocking up for the week at work. Like if you glance in his desk let's say when he's not there, it's an entire drawer filled with spinach and tuna cans. Which he cooks and mashes with canned tuna for lunch and nothing else. The other day when I saw him preparing this um -feast- I said, well you're getting a lot of iron at least and he actually deemed to argue that in fact spinach had more, I don’t know vitamin C- which is only true bcs of the absorption rate but on the Can it says Iron. So you know, I won that one.

Spinach
(Spinacia oleracea -- Family Chenopodiaceae)
Spinach is thought to be native to Southwest Asia and unknown to the Greeks and Romans. First cultivated by the Persians, it is now cultivated throughout the world, with the exception of the tropics. Although grown in China for centuries, it did not reach Europe until about 1100 AD after an introduction to Spain by the Moors.

Anyway his strange but nutritious eating habits don’t stop there. For breakfast he has a big bowl of oatmeal – 2 packets, which flavors vary. And then literally- no, literally drowns it in fake butter from a tube. I’m sorry ya’all he crossed the line. That’s just nastiness. As I whispered my elitist distaste for such delicacies it led to a discussion about cereal- if you don’t have milk you use- mocha mix, cool-aid, water, orange juice, yogurt, non-fat? What, then why not water. Why milk at all I ask you?

So the spinach guy watch continues- and today it's Chinese food for lunch. no spinach. (me not him= mmm hot garlic chicken) You know what strikes me about Spinach guy, is that it's canned, all of it or in packets. and i seem to start on this whole flash back to post-apocalyptic times (aka in the movies) where everything is mashed and gooey, barely seeping warmth, with no taste- like it's Rot meets Ration. Sure you could say it's healthy besides the fake butter which is in fact slowly preserving his body once he does run out of rations and can never bring himself to open the escape hatch... but at what cost really. He slumps his head down as he stirs his food, glancing left and right as we stare at his concoction, he mashes and mashes with his fork- slunk goes the spinach into the bowl. Slunk. Slunk. Drip. Drip. And the microwave waits, to make it all rise.