When you become a parent, there is a lot of “yucky” stuff that goes along with the territory, and regardless if you are a squeamish person or not, you just have to deal with it. I have stoically dealt with a puking child on an airplane, massive diaper blowouts on the beach and poop smeared all over a toddler bed…multiple times.
However, I was absolutely thrown for a loop yesterday…by a jar of tomato sauce. I was making spaghetti, and I pop open the lid to find a layer of black crusty stuff on the top of the jar. Yuck…black mold in my tomato sauce. Then I decided to check out the entire jar (bad idea) and I found “something” in the sauce. Double YUCK…It was about the size of a tomato slice, but it was grayish and slimy and half of it was a moldy black and almost looked like a a wrinkly piece of intestines. Whatever it was, it was just the most disgusting thing that I have seen in a long time. It literally made me sick to my stomach.
Plus, I then had to plop the kids into the car, dash up to Kingma’s and buy a $4.00 jar of sauce to finish my meal.
I went today to return the sauce and they gave me my money back plus a $5 gift card, (which I guess is better than a kick in the pants) but I am seriously scarred for life…well, at least traumatized for a couple of days.
Am I overreacting? Maybe – Ben thought so. But…if I can catch projectile puke in my hands while jammed into an airplane seat and not even flinch…this must have been bad…
Gross! That would make me not want to buy that brand again!