Thursday, October 14, 2010

Eggs Are Heavy

Eggs. You buy them regularly. Unless you are baking heavily, you buy them by the dozen, maybe two. They go in a separate bag at the grocery checkout aisle, and you carry them in a separate hand when you load them in the car and unload them to the house, where they go in the fridge and then come out egg by egg.


Hold an egg in your hand. Wave it around a bit, carefully. Kinda heavy, isn’t it, this compact, dense little bundle of protein? Come to think of it, even though it was just one or two dozen eggs in that grocery bag, it was still pretty heavy for the actual size, no?


Now pack thirty dozen of them in a crate and try staggering from the store to a van and then several hundred steps from the van to a boat landing, a skiff, a boat, and eventually a fridge with them, said staggering done in a cautious manner to keep them from breaking. Then you’ll see why I say...