April 3, 2003

  • Got Pollen?


    So what do you think?  Is pollen a mind/mood-altering substance?  I've been outside enjoying the weather on the hill.  Now, I can't breathe, my eyes are watering, and I have a headache.


    To make it worse, I was actually working out there.  I was pulling up the paving stones that make up our sidewalk and clearing out the weeds.  Then lining them up ~ straight.  (When you have paving stones on a red clay hill, with every rain, the stones slip or slide.  So over the years, my nice neat row of stones has meandered.)  The Schwan's man stopped by.  He does that every other Thursday.  My kids are dancing around singing "banana popsicles!"  I'm trying to remember if I have any actual cash in my wallet.  The Schwan's man says, "You know, I liked the walk better the other way." 


    I suppose that's fair enough.  See I liked the other Schwan's man.  *My* Schwan's man is a 40 something guy with happy eyes and a cool attitude.  Sometimes he forgets to try to sell me anything, he just pulls in the drive and yells "hey, you gotta cold coke in there?"  He never forgot to bring banana popsicles for Tucker.  He always remembered the kids' names.  Sometime last Fall while I was out of town, he got replaced.  Maybe from the Schwan's company's perspective he wasn't a good employee.  Maybe he was pulling in other women's drive asking for more than a coke.  I don't know.  I just know that over the course of the two and 1/2 years that he stopped by, the boys and I got where we looked forward to seeing his big yellow truck.  Then the new guy showed up and said, "as of last week, Tom is no longer with the company."


    This new guy doesn't know us.  We don't know him.  After he left today, Tucker said, "Momi, that's not a real Schwan's man is it?"  No, baby it isn't.  All this time that my husband, my friends, and my sister were teasing me that the real reason I liked Schwan's ice cream had nothing to do with the ice cream, I thought they were wrong.  But they weren't.  The ice cream is the same according to the ingredients list.  But it doesn't taste the same. 


    I've taken my allergy meds.  I've taken ibuprofen.  I'm going back outside to work on the sidewalk some more.  I'll probably put it back like it was, meandering across the top of the hill. 

Comments (11)

  • I'm sorry about your Schwan man...I guess sometimes they start feeling like part of the family!  I've ordered from them once, and man, some of their food is so good!  Their guys are always eager to accomodate your schedule, and their vanilla ice cream is to-kill-for.  lol...and it even comes at that special ice cream temperature where it's soft, but still perfectly frozen, and just right for eating. 

    I know what you mean about the pollen...I've been feeling sniffly and sneezy all day, and I didn't even think i HAD allergies.  spring is enough to turn anyone on to benadryl.

  • Oh, yeah!  Pollen and other allergens can mess with your mind.  The histamine response is part of it, and there's catecholamine, and a whole lot more, involved.

    It makes me glad I don't live in some tropical paradise with all those flowers.

  • The only sales people that show up around here are Kirby sweeper salesmen who won't take no for an answer.

    Faith

  • Interesting perspective.  Have fun! o/

    God Bless - Dale

  • perhaps someday the fake schwans man will be come a real schwans man...

  • So sorry about the pollen -- and the "real" Schwan's man!    Perhaps he is gracing some other doorsteps even now.  Hopefully so; he sounded like a good representative. 

  • I see I have not visited lately probably misssed your name as I work up or down my list. I read the blog below as well .Happy to me is not being worried about anything. I think Overjoyed is the right word for something that makes one's heart zing. Hope the Ibrobren works .I can't take it but do rub a gel on my achy parts. Cheers Portia

  • I'll trade your pollen for my snow and Ice...

    BBChel

  • Sorry to hear about you Schwann's man.  He doesn't come around my neighborhood.  Considering I live it what my little sister calls the white hood......he's probably to scared to!  Good luck with your semi new guy.....maybe things will get better.

  • My sinuses are always bothering and half the time I feel as if my face is going to collapse. Pollen sucks!

    Anyways, just wanted to prop ya. I really like your site. Take care.

  • Meandering is best. Kind of like life.

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