pickles
September 7th, 2006 by Lawrence David
“did you know that pickles come from cucumbers?”
thus spake a genuinely surprised christina this evening, after reading a book describing produce.
graduates with highest honors from probably the nation’s top business school – and she thought pickles come from the pickle tree. just adorable 
[update: christina disavows thinking pickles came from the pickle tree. "i didn't know where they came from!"]
(clearly, both of us missed the tutorial on how the world works.)
Ugh, you guys are SO CUTE. Miss you. I will be making a trip to Beantown sometime soon, to visit my sister, Sam’s sister (who just started at Harvard) and I better be seeing you two too!!
[...] sometimes, i feel like there was some universal memo that everyone gets to read around the time they get to middle school. in it are these sorts of universal facts: lucky chinese color = red; damon wayans and keenen ivory wayans are in fact brothers and not just 2 guys with the same stage names [only learned last year]; the stuff that makes your hair oily comes from your scalp, not from your shampoo [learned from a horrified christina 3 months ago]. needless, to say, i have yet to see a copy of this document. at least, i’ve got the small comfort of knowing christina has only read portions of it. [...]