Crumbs

Perfecting the a skill of dinning away from a conventional table requires learning how to manage crumbs.

Whether you are on the sofa, chair or bed with the food on a dish. paper towel, napkin or bare hand, crumb behavior will be the same.  The biggest difference happens during the lift to mouth action. That is when crumbs come to life, fly and fall everywhere. 

The star of the show is the big crumb you happen to see briefly just as it falls. Confident it is large enough to find, you finish the bite before picking it off your sweather, shirt or pajama top. Only when you look, it is gone! Pressed by fabric into smaller crumbs.  

After finishing your food, you go to the sink holding up the hem of your clothes to pocket the crumbs. At the sink, you shake them out. 

The whole ritual puzzles me why we don't perfect eating over the sink. 

☃️

Happy First Day of Winter!