avocado
my dad made me a sandwich to go for dinner on the amtrak. He fried an egg, heated up a veggie pattie, and asked if I wanted avocado on it. I said, sure, if it’s convenient. So he gets the avocado, and asks me how he should put it on. I said offhandedly, just slice it up and put on the pieces? He said nah, they’ll slide out of the sandwich when you bite into it. I was frantically packing other things so I held that thought in my head and came back to it as I was eating my delicious sandwich in which avocados did not fall out. They were lovingly spread on the bread, like a thick layer of mayonnaise. I thought, damn, who else but my dad would think about mashing the avocado and then spreading it on like that? This tiny little act, the extra effort and thought of what it would be like to eat this sandwich on a train went through my father’s head, imagining what it would be like to have an avocado fall out of a sandwich and how inconvenient it might be. This is parental love at its purest, the little things, the extra effort, the constant worry that you’ll be okay. The care is overwhelming and so often taken for granted.
avocado
my dad made me a sandwich to go for dinner on the amtrak. He fried an egg, heated up a veggie pattie, and asked if I wanted avocado on it. I said, sure, if it’s convenient. So he gets the avocado, and asks me how he should put it on. I said offhandedly, just slice it up and put on the pieces? He said nah, they’ll slide out of the sandwich when you bite into it. I was frantically packing other things so I held that thought in my head and came back to it as I was eating my delicious sandwich in which avocados did not fall out. They were lovingly spread on the bread, like a thick layer of mayonnaise. I thought, damn, who else but my dad would think about mashing the avocado and then spreading it on like that? This tiny little act, the extra effort and thought of what it would be like to eat this sandwich on a train went through my father’s head, imagining what it would be like to have an avocado fall out of a sandwich and how inconvenient it might be. This is parental love at its purest, the little things, the extra effort, the constant worry that you’ll be okay. The care is overwhelming and so often taken for granted.
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bobbypinned said:
Dude he basically made it into guacamole! Holler
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