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Do you ever feel bad for inanimate objects?

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Mudcat

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I was a very sensitive, imaginative kid and it was a big thing for me. If I threw something in the garbage - particularly if it was a good toy that broke or something I had gotten a lot of use out of - I could feel downright guilty. It could bother me for quite awhile.

I have grown out of that for the most part. I basically had to because that kind of thing will make you crazy. I have willed myself to become, if anything, one of the least likely guys to form sentimental attachment to inanimate objects.



But last night I had a peculiar experience. I buy these big boxes of freezie pops. There are 5 flavors and I don't like the grape very much. So I grabbed a handful of freezie pops to stick in the freezer and I separated the grape ones and tossed them in the garbage.

I felt bad. I thought about that and realized it wasn't the money - they are worth less than 20 cents each. I felt bad because they look so nice and they weren't going to be able to fulfill their destiny. Poor grape freezie pops.


I still have a lot of little kid in me.
 
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Why don't you save the grape ones for Jenny's kids? Throwing away perfectly good freezie pops is wrong, that's why it bothers you so much. You know those hungry African kids that Sally Struthers pimps out? Think about how they would gouge each others' eyes out for just one of those mediocre grape freezie pops.

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Neither Jenny nor her kids like the grape.

Other than that, I don't know. I have given some thought to making more of an effort to find proper homes for the grape freezie pops, but how far do I go?

Do I approach random kids in the park and say, "Come here little one - I have sweets for you." A bit of a fundamental problem there, I think.

Do I in fact just eat the grape freezie pops so as not be wasteful? I could. I don't absolutely hate them. I just find them somewhat sub-par. Any time I had a grape freezie pop it would be like, "I would SO more enjoy a cream soda or a blue raspberry freezie pop right now. Why am I doing this? I am not poor."

I do feel bad for the starving Africans - I really do. Maybe I should mail the freezie pops there. To what address should I send 4 bucks worth of grape freezie pops a couple times a year, preferably where they will cause a minimum of eye-gouging?


No, I have thought it through and feel comfortable that I have arrived at the most sensible solution. But the freezie pops just look so purple and fresh and fun - then I toss them in with the coffee grinds and banana peels.

Heartbreaking.
 
One time a delivery place made a mistake and delivered Chinese food with meat in it. We're vegetarians. They came back and brought the correct food, but obviously didn't want the other stuff back. I felt bad throwing it away, so I posted on Craigslist in the free section. I wrote what had happened and said that I knew I was probably bonkers, but it was a perfectly good dinner for two that was going to waste.

A lady wrote to me and said she was just wondering what she was going to make for dinner when she got home. Our house was on her way home from work. She came by. I gave her the food. All was right in the universe.
 
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Mud criticized me about a video I posted two years ago about a garbage collector that reminded me of him (RogueScholar can verify).
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I can verify that although my memory of the details is vague. I don't think I criticized you. As I recall you said the OCD-ish guy in the video made you think of me and I didn't see it and I mused how it can be surprising to discover how we are perceived by others.

Was that guy sensitive to inanimate objects?
 
Mudcat
I can verify that although my memory of the details is vague. I don't think I criticized you. As I recall you said the OCD-ish guy in the video made you think of me and I didn't see it and I mused how it can be surprising to discover how we are perceived by others.

Was that guy sensitive to inanimate objects?
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Yes, You do have a good memory....I can't find the Video!
 
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