Having too much time on your hands is not a good thing. For example.
I had ordered 5,000 meal worms for my bluebirds and they came in a vented box with a bunch of cardboard to separate the layers. I inspected the contents, and all looked well, except…. How do you know if they really sent you 5,000 mealworms? If they only packed 4,900 that would be a 2 percent shortage and if some fiendish worm packer only put 4,500 in the box, who would know? And they would add 10% to their profits.
When I buy a dozen golf balls, I know how many I am getting. Same with a carton of 18 eggs or a six-pack of beer. But who knows how many meal worms there really are in a 5,000-count box?
With nothing better to, and that’s a dangerous thing, I decided to count the worms, one by one, and make sure I was getting my money’s worth.
So here goes:
1,2,3,4,5,6……
421, 422, 423, 424…..
1,121, 1,123, 1,123….
2,460, 2,461, 2,462, 2,463….
Let me interrupt the meal worm counting with a word of caution, in case you ever decide to try to count all your meal worms.
When meal worms are in the refrigerator, they are more or less dormant, but when they reach room temperature, they begin to wiggle and by the time you have counted 2,000 or so meal worms, they are suddenly crawling everywhere.
Oh crap, at least five worms crawled off the table and scattered beneath the refrigerator, plus the uncounted pile has merged with the previously counted. I now have no idea how many meal worms I’ve counted.
I guess I’ll start again.
1,2,3,4,5….
Or maybe I’ll just trust them this one last time.