inch by inch

There’s a little deli just a few blocks from my work called “Finch’s Tea and Coffee House” that makes amazing sandwiches. Allie and I go there once every couple of weeks, usually getting the “full vegetarian” which comes with 1/2 avocado, cucumber, red onion, cheese, lettuce, tomato and dijon-mayo. I get mine on a baguette and Allie, opting for the less messy and more cost effective version, goes for toasted multi-grain bread. It’s healthy, delicious and did I mention amazing? Lunch time at Finch’s is definitely their busiest hour and it has proven more efficient to pre-order these delicacies than to arrive, wait in line, then order and pay, and then wait again for your lunch to be made, sometimes waiting for up to ½ hour. These are the REAL sandwich artists (take that Subway!).

Last week, Allie and I both forgetting our lunches on the kitchen counter, we ordered our meals from Finch’s. We went and picked up the perfectly wrapped and expertly made sandwiches. We brought them back to the office, huddled around my desk and gingerly untied the twine used to tie the brown paper wrapper shut, to expose our food. We ate our lunches in silence (there are rituals one must follow when eating a finch’s sandwich), me getting avocado on my new shirt due to my messier choice. I finished up, and carefully folded the paper, and placed it under my keyboard. I then watched Allie take her last bite and go to do the same as I, and neatly fold the package, when her face turned white. There, on the brown paper, crawling around (or measuring, if you will), was a green/grey inch worm. I could practically see her stomach lurch.

Amber, the most assertive of us three, called Finch’s and complained, earning Allie a free sandwich (if she so desires to eat there again…which I’m sure she will), and then we went to exchange other horror stories of bugs or animals found in our own food.

And this, is where I came up with the theme for my next play list. Animals. This is probably the most eclectic yet of my playlists.

What have I learned? Look in the wrapper first, and The Beatles had a lot of songs about animals.

P.S.

Dear Finch’s, I still love you and will continue to eat your sandwiches, but please, wash your lettuce better.
Love, Mikhaila

Animals

The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance
George Clinton - Atomic Dog
Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur
Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk (performed by ?)
The B-52's- Rock Lobster
Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots – Disco Duck
Theme Song – Felix the Cat
Aristocats (Disney) - Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat
The Beatles - Rocky Racoon
The Mills Brothers - Yellow Bird
Patti Page - (How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window
Michael Jackson - Ben
Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kitty Come Home
The Beatles-Blackbird
Cat Stevens - I Love My Dog
Loundon Wainwright III – Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road
Sonny James – The Cat Came Back
Blind Willie McTeel - Boll Weevil
Peter Paul & Mary - Puff the Magic Dragon
Rolf Harris- Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Simon & Garfunkle – At the Zoo
Presidents of the United States of America - Kitty
Nokolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee (Performed by Itzhak Perlman)
The Who - Boris The Spider
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Mary Had A Little Lamb
Spin Doctors - Cleopatra's Cat
The Beatles - Octopus' Garden
The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Boll Weevil
The Rolling Stones - Little Red Rooster
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
The Beatles- Piggies
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – Mickey’s Monkey
Brook Benton - The Boll Weevil Song
Lady and the Tramp (Disney) - The Siamese Cat Song
John Coltrane Quartet - The Inch Worm
Bill Pursell - Alley Cat
Paul McCartney - Bluebird
Weezer - Butterfly