Coconuts and lowered expectations

so today started out normal for a sunday. woke up about 9 (my version of sleeping in between the months of august and may) , had a few donuts (from SquareDonuts of course) and screwed around on the computer. well i had a fairly easy day at work and afterward i bought a coconut. Why buy a coconut you ask? well here's the answer: Why the F*** not? after all, coconuts rule. you put limes in them and shake them up and you can make pina coladas (one for each hand) but vague song references aside i wanted to buy a coconut because it was out of the ordinary and i wanted to try something new. i came up with the idea to buy one after joking around with a work associate about it just being a random thing to do.

Well i got it home and it was awsome. i gazed in its majesty and took a few pics for the 'ol Facebook page then i commenced cracking it open. it was apparently an EZ Crack brand coconut (they're the ones with lines on the sides to make them simple to crack open) well i tried everything. i hit it with a knife, i stabbed it with a knife, and i even tried cutting it with an electric carving knife like the type used at Thanksgiving. well eventually i just took it outside and set in in a bowl and put the bowl on my backyard picnic table. i grabbed a hammer from the shed and smashed it open. i thought, "yes! i've finally achieved my goal! the coconut is mine all mine!!!" i washed off the meat portion and cut that part open and poured the milk into a cup. i tasted the meat and it was well... ... rancid to say the least. IT WAS TERRIBLE. i figured it was just that coconut candy had a lot of other flavorings and maybe the milk would be better. well it wasnt and the taste made me want to throw up. to describe the taste (ugh its starting to come back to me even now) i may as well have drank old mop water.so it turns out i got a bad coconut. the worse part is that i wasn't even surprised given the store i got it from (the one i work at).

well kids there's a lesson from this. coconuts (much like people) seem awsome on the outside but when you take the time to crack them open you'll see that some of them are absolutely disgusting. the sad thing is that if you meet a truly bad person, you can't just swish with some Listerine to get the bad taste out of your mouth like i did with that coconut. you just have to realize that some are bad (but not all.) and just throw that particular one away. just hope for the best next time. ^_^ essentiall i'm saying that people are like coconuts.