When I was a kid, we fed some old corncobs to the backyard squirrels. Somehow one of these ended up in our sandbox (which we were getting too old to play in anyway) and later in the summer giants stalks of corn started sprouting right out of the sand. Corn is a very hearty plant.
About three weeks ago, my roommate spilled popcorn (uncooked) into the sink we use to dry the dishes. I thought it was gross but when the drying rack is loaded with dishes it's not very convenient to clean, so I let it go for awhile. I've been increasingly irritated that the popcorn kernels were rotting away in the drain but I was refusing to clean it up on principle. The same way I refuse to change the toilet paper roll when I am not the last person to use one up.
Anyway, so today I was putting away the dishes...which gives me another thought...I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who ever puts dishes away because I am always finding them precariously and BADLY stacked. In a perfect world people would wash their dishes and put the previous person's away before they stacked their wet dishes on top, building higher and higher leaning towers of pisa. Instead there are always wet dishes on top of my dry ones which are washed in a certain order for maximum drying potential. Oh, and let's not get started on the stacks of wet bowls or glasses that are right side up... I mean, does it take that much brain power to figure out that glasses stuck inside one other with water pooling in the bottom will NEVER dry? Apparently it takes more brain power than my roommate has... But I digress. This is about popcorn seeds.
So today I was unloading the drying rack. Guess what?!?! There were several stalks of corn GROWING IN MY KITCHEN SINK! It was so incredibly nasty.
The worst part: I don't know how to bring this up to my roommate. Um, hey, you failed to notice that about 30 kernels of popcorn landed in the sink 3 weeks ago. You failed to notice they were rotting. You failed to notice that green fucking shoots were sprouting from our drain! You probably haven't noticed that I've cleaned it all up either, have you?
That would go over well.
