So yesterday I went to the tomato cannery to do 5 hours of service. The Sacramento cannery now provides ALL the tomatoes for the entire church, and I needed the community service hours anyway for school.
It took a little while to get there, and after we arrived and got all prettied up with our plastic garb and mesh hairnets, we were ready to start. A bunch of people stood in front of the door to the inspection line, where we would work, and I swear it looked like the Gates of Heck were before me. Now, I love tomatoes. But the smell was a bit much...ok, it was a LOT much. The overwhelming stench, combined with the heat and red color everywhere really brought to my mind's eye images of Heck. But, I knew it was the Lord's tomato cannery, so I toughed it out and went in.
After the first 2 hours of peeling and sorting tomatoes, I started to bore. So my friend and I entertained ourselves with a "friendly" tomato fight. It was so much fun, and provided some much needed tension release. Squishing tomatoes is very therapudic. Try it sometime.
Anyway, we were there from 5:00 to 10:00, and I came to a very important conclusion. I want to get a VERY good education, so I never have to do assembly line work for the rest of my life.
That really would be heck.
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yesterday was a national day of service in honor of 9/11. good for you! you must have been taught well in your youth.
that is a very good conclusion
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