Lunch woes

One of the benefits(?) of working in the family business is going home for lunch -- or rather, going to your parents' home. My dad and I have lunch together at his place almost every day. (Actually, we just both ride in the car together; once we're there, we chat a little bit but we mostly eat quitely and do our separate lunchbreak-type things.)

While this saves me a bundle in lunch money, it makes for some odd eating. My mom is still buying lunchmeat like there's three hungry teens in the house, so some days I have to spend a few minutes checking out which meats have gone bad, in some cases throwing away whole half-pounds of rancid corned beef. Other days, like today, there's nothing but salami in the meat bin, not even cheese to go with it. And the fruit bin is usually full of shriveled apples, moldy peaches and oranges that look like shrunken heads. Not good eats.

These largely carnivorous lunches, combined with a low-mobility job and three-hour round-trip commute, have helped wreak havok on my beltline. So I think I'm going to stop going home for lunch. I'll either bring lunch or hit Subway for a veggie delight or something equally healthy. Perhaps I'll be less inclined to eat a fatty salami sandwich if I'm the one buying the ingredients.

Posted by Andrew Huff at October 20, 2003 02:40 PM