04/19/2024
A ridiculous medley of vegetables. Actually, a mark of a vegetable medley so high, we'll never be able to attain it again. And we didn't know it at the time. But this is picture - this evidence of culinary perfection - became the downfall of this here business.
It started slowly. A like here. A comment there. Then, the dm's began rushing as wildly as those river rapids people speak about. Direct messages. Phone calls. From every direction, all of our following rose up at once and demanded this vegetable medley.
And, even before we can even execute on those events, we're already screwed. Our fate is sealed. we'll excitedly greet customers at their homes or special occasion spaces. these hypothetical, future events- they are beautiful. Weddings, drivers license receiving celebrations, business grand openings, home mold inspection results parties...breathtaking in the amount of LIFE happening all around us- and they've invited US to celebrate with them.
The tearful father, dressed in his finest suit, closes a heartfelt invocation. Applause roars across the dewey meadow. Hand-in-hand, Young and old approach our humble food truck ready for *this very vegetable medley* they have dreamt of.
And then, that father, eyes brimming with anticipation of the shimmering delight of vegetables perfectly glazed in natural oils, seasonings, and kisses of seared sweetness... He receives his plate.
And he sees *different* vegetable medley.
One prepared by our team, yes. But it dare not approached the glory once captured here.
[long pause. eyes transfixed on the plate of vegetables. breaths becoming hurried, as panic sets in. the murmur of the crowd behind him begins to rise like the manic, confused tension he feels in rising in his chest]
Him: "YOU HAVE WRONGED THIS HOUSEHOLD...YOU HAVE SULLIED A MOMENT THAT WE NOW CANNOT REPLAY OR REIMAGINE OR RETRIEVE, BUT MUST WALK FORTH INTO THE FUTURE WITH THIS PILE OF UNINSPIRED, UNDERCHARED GARDEN SCRAPS.
SHOW ME THE MEDLEY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPH. SHOW ME THE BEAUTY THAT WE CRAVE, OR TAKE THIS BEAST AND ALL THE CONTENTS OF YOUR TRUCK THEREIN, AND LEAVE."
Us: Well sir, are you hungry? We've got a great menu ov-
[End of business]
