I know, killing and grapes really don't seem like they go together, but this is an exception. Moving out to Colorado the first time recently, I was driving my wife's Subaru and she and our dog were fast asleeep. I was driving early in the morning and I reached into my bag of grapes and picked out one big grape and ate it. The grapes were really good so I decided to eat two at the same time.
Both grapes slipped out of my fingers and now I knew I had a problem. How do you continue driving for another hour or two when you have two grapes rolling around on the mat below you? I wasn't going to pull over and there was no way of driving safely and picking them up, so I moved my feet very carefully.
I wasn't going to eat them off the mat, really I wasn't. I wanted to avoid crushing them, or killing them. I think it's a bad omen to kill grapes as you start a big trip. I was a little concerned that the mat felt sticky and I knew my wife would not be happy about that.
I put together a plan: when we pulled up to the park my wife started walking our dog. I waited until she was a distance away and while I was drinking something I pulled out the mat and saw the two dead grapes. This is how the mat looked after I threw water at it from my water bottle.
My wife started heading back my way and I threw more water on it and dried it some and then put it in the car. It was not sticky anymore and my wife never would have known about it, but I needed to blog about it. Honey, your mat was clean again despite two grapes being crushed /killed on it.
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