SamSaid!

CUTTING COMMENTS

     I like sandwiches. At midday, I enoy looking over the luncheon menus to ponder over the sandwich selections. But if there is one thing that peeves me, it is the all too common occasion when a sandwich is not quite cut in two pieces. For some reason, the chef, cook, waitress or whomever manages to cut thru 98% of the sandwich, but leaves a little strand of bread uncut. So,  I pick up 1/2 of the sandwich ready for the first big bite and then see a mess on my plate where the 2nd half of the sandwich has come apart because of that little 2% that was uncut.

     It is not rocket science to cut a sandwich in two. In most cases the cut is along the diagonal of the bread, but even so, a math major is not required. The other day, our golf group was having lunch, and we ordered our sandwiches of choice. Not uncommon. When mine was served, I almost automatically picked up a knife and cut thru my sandwich where it had already been cut  –  end to end. When a buddy asked what I was doing, I told him about my concern over a sandwich not quite served in two sections  — one that had been cleanly cut all the way from one end to the other. He laughed  — and then picked up half of his sandwich only to see the second half become a badly arranged messy salad on his plate. That  last little connecting strand of bread got him. I laughed  — he didn't. 

     After he calmed down, I suggested that he avoid the problem by ordering a salad in the first place.