Vegetables for a meat eater

I must confess that eating a full meal with no meat is quite a task. What’s worse is having to cook those meals… oh is just too much to ask for! the new weight loss regime demands that I do just about this. So I finally get used to this regime and honestly am kinda beginning to enjoy the whole process when just yesterday something happened.

So there was sprawled out in my drawing room doing some streaches if you please when a man shows up. Peeps into the house. The roommate who’s startled by this jumps up and asks the strange man what is it that he wants. Me! It seems. The man wished to speak with ‘her- friend’. So I go and wonder who this man could be when he looks at me and says:

Man: You should not have commented on my vegetables
Me: Wondering what the hell he was talking about “What?”
Man: You should not have commented on my vegetables
Me: What? Who are you

I rewind to a few mins back and remember that I had indeed bought vegetables from the vendor outside my house and I look at the man carefully and I realize that he was also buying vegetables from the same vendor but was wearing something different.

I finally realize what actually happened.

The roommate and I had bought whatever we thought could be cooked and eaten by us and then she went into the house to get our wallets. When she came out she thought I was going to buy some green vegetable which I have no clue what it is called and I said “you really expect me to buy something like this” meaning as healthy and green as this. (I swear!)

Back to the little tête-à-tête.

Man: You told your friend that you would never eat something like this
Me: I’m sorry if you felt offended by what I said but I didn’t mean to offend you
Man: My father has been growing this vegetable for the last 25 years
Me: I think you’re over reacting. I did not direct the comment at you
Man: You should not have said it like that
Me: Please stop, I said I’m sorry if you were offended but….
Man: for your kind information it is my favorite vegetable
Me: Losing it totally by now: “Very good please go buy some more and eat it then”
Man: You should not have….
Me: Please leave my house.
Man: You should…
Me: Get OUT! Next time ring the bell
Man: How can you ….

By now I had managed to chase him out of my gate!

So this is it. A meat eater buying some vegetables … it’s can’t be easy.

I am surprised at what happened and how easily I was misunderstood and attacked in my own house by a man who had gone changed his attire to fight with me cause I didn’t share the same love for a VEGETABLE!

So was he really offended or was it a ploy to strike a conversation … I guess I’ll never know. But what I do know is that LIFE’S LIKE THAT…