My parents used to freak out when I drank milk after eating fish as a kid. Theyd go into panic saying that Id get a stomach ache. Other times they said it would make me lose the pigment in my skin and cause splotching. Or even the ultimate nightmare, maybe one day Id go to sleep and wake up as a white kid with constant tummyaches. Ahhhhhhhhh! There is no science whatsoever to back this up this absurd cultural wives tale. I know that now. I wish I did in first grade though. One day, they were serving fish nuggets in the cafeteria and I saw kid after kid walking to their tables with fish on their lunch trays... and tiny cartons of milk to accompany it. In the corner of my eye, I spotted one of my friends in danger. He had a fish nugget in one hand and was reaching for his milk with the other. I sprang into action. (Cue slow motion running and Baywatch music Ill be readyyyyyyyyyyy) I yanked that milk out of his hand and threw it across the room like I had just saved the entire cafeteria from a nuclear device that was set to detonate. I paused and waited for the entire cafeteria to burst into applause for rescuing them. Thanking me for stopping the the school from getting tummy aches and preventing their skin from getting even whiter than what it was before. Instead, I got an entire room of blank stares and confusion. Not to mention missing recess for a week (the childhood equivalent of solitary confinement in a maximum security prison) for throwing chocolate milk in the cafeteria.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:34:27 +0000
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