August 25, 2023 : Sanshoku Dango and Warabi Mochi
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
Before I went to bed at night, something unexpected happened.
The story goes back several days. A few days ago, I bought sanshoku dango at the supermarket.
I couldn't decide between sanshoku dango and warabi mochi, but in the end I chose sanshoku dango because it had a longer expiration date than warabi mochi.
A few days later, I bought warabi mochi. At this point, sanshoku dango and warabi mochi were in the fridge.
However, I forgot that warabi mochi was in the fridge, and I bought another pack of warabi mochi yesterday,
so there is now one pack of sanshoku dango and two packs of warabi mochi in the fridge.
Before going to bed at night, I opened the fridge to eat the warabi mochi and found that there was another pack of warabi mochi than the one I wanted to eat,
so I thought I'd eat the old one, and I checked the expiration date and found that the old one expired yesterday, and the sanshoku dango expired yesterday, too.
I had an experience where I ate a warabi mochi that was 2 days past its expiration date and I was fine,
but I was afraid to eat the sanshoku dango that was 2 days past its expiration date because the other day
I was threatened by the manager who said that if I caught COVID-19 there would be no replacement for me at work,
so after all, I ate both of them because I did not want to throw the sanshoku dango in the garbage, nor did I want to get food poisoning as well.
I finished both and went to bed.
After a while I woke up. Looking at the clock, I realized that I had slept for about an hour.
I got up, went to the bathroom, and went back to bed.
Then I had a hard time falling back asleep, and on the way I had a scary thought, something like this:
I always check carefully to make sure that the lights are off when I go outside, and I would normally notice if the TV was on when the lights were off, and also, the TV volume was on.
So why was the TV on when I came home? This has happened three or four times so far.
I thought I had turned it off, but when I got home it was on, or I was asleep and heard a noise, so I went over and found the TV on.
I am very conscious of checking the lights and the air conditioner.
While I was thinking about these things, I fell asleep before I knew it.
Today I woke up later than usual, even though I am in a hurry every morning, so I had to hurry even more.
I went to work and did my best to complete my work successfully today.
On my way home, I took a break at a coffee shop.