I love cake. Don’t you? One of the best perks of
teaching kindergarten is the birthday parties because of the cake. Except when
the moms send in a cake that has that blah-tasting whippy frosting topped with
grapes (with seeds!) and dragon fruit. Meh. But most of them do a good job of
picking a delicious cake. Even when students in another class have a birthday
party, I can still count on getting a glorious piece of cake.
But there is something quite odd about cake-eating
here. I noticed it in Korea too. Instead of giving you a fork to eat it with
(or even a spoon or a spork), they give you a teeny tiny shrimp fork. No joke:
The one in the photo happens to be wooden, but most are plastic. In either case, trying to eat a piece of cake with one of
those is as close to impossible as it gets. You wind up destroying what was
once a lovely slice of cakey goodness in a desperate attempt to get a bite into
your mouth. I think using chopsticks would actually be easier!
Prior to this, my favorite simile to use to
describe doing something that was impossible came from Mr. Anderson from Beavis
and Butthead. Remember him?
He was the old neighbor that was constantly
terrorized by them. He once said, “I feel like a one-legged cat trying to bury
turd on a frozen pond,” though for the life of me now, I can't remember why he was saying it. Perhaps he was trying to eat cake with one of these damned things too. In any event, I now have my very own simile to coin:
I feel like I’m trying to eat a slice of cake with
a puny plastic shrimp fork.
Feel free to quote me on that.
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