For every hot dog eaten, 36 minutes are subtracted from the diner’s lifespan.
It was Monday evening in Ed and Edna’s. kitchen. Ed sat in his recliner, a beer on the table next to him.
“What’s for dinner?”
“Do you mean after you finish your cigarette and that bottle, Ed?”
Naturally he meant after his first course.
“I boiled a hot dog for you. You can have mine too, and I’m adding an extra one for the pot.”
Edna frowned as the steam reached her face.
“So, I’ll have three?”
“I can save one for the morning… You know, after you’ve had your cigarettes and coffee.”
A left-over morning dog?
What were another 36 minutes off Ed’s life, if it could be called that?
“I’m going to have a P&J myself.”
“With grape jelly?”
“Yeah, grape, Ed.”
“Grape, huh?”
Some people, such as Ed, use grape jelly in place of barbecue sauce on hotdogs and sausages.
Edna reached for a knife from the silverware drawer to spread her peanut butter.
Interestingly, eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich adds 33 minutes to a person’s life.
David Sydney is a physician who writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).