As part of my ongoing research I have discovered a very peculiar anomaly...
I work in a cafe, and behind the cafe is a large paved area inaccesable to all but employees and delivery trucks. This area contains a smoking bench, an icemaker, and two dumpsters. This cafe does not order, cook, or in any other way deal with broccoli.
Yesterday, I was taking out the garbage through the back door. I took one bag out walked right over a particular spot, and went back in, crossing the same spot again. I then proceeded to take out another bag, however, upon returning this time there was a piece of broccoli in the aforementioned spot. I examined it, of course: It was small, green had many smaller green parts (a perfectly normal piece of broccoli). Furthermore, it was not cooked in any way, and it was missing its stem. (It was sitting next to a small blue triangle made of plastic, but I suspect that to be unimportant.) The broccoli is now in a ziploc bag in the back of my truck. It is unthinkable that I should have missed it on my first trip back from the dumpster, so it must have come there between 4:23 PM and 4:26 PM. No delivery arrived during that period, nor (as far a I know) was anyone behind the cafe during that time.
How did it get there? More importantly, why did it get there?
Did anything unusual happen to you during this timeframe? (4:23-4:26 PM EST Tuesday, Febuary 28)
Would you suggest that I eat it?
I work in a cafe, and behind the cafe is a large paved area inaccesable to all but employees and delivery trucks. This area contains a smoking bench, an icemaker, and two dumpsters. This cafe does not order, cook, or in any other way deal with broccoli.
Yesterday, I was taking out the garbage through the back door. I took one bag out walked right over a particular spot, and went back in, crossing the same spot again. I then proceeded to take out another bag, however, upon returning this time there was a piece of broccoli in the aforementioned spot. I examined it, of course: It was small, green had many smaller green parts (a perfectly normal piece of broccoli). Furthermore, it was not cooked in any way, and it was missing its stem. (It was sitting next to a small blue triangle made of plastic, but I suspect that to be unimportant.) The broccoli is now in a ziploc bag in the back of my truck. It is unthinkable that I should have missed it on my first trip back from the dumpster, so it must have come there between 4:23 PM and 4:26 PM. No delivery arrived during that period, nor (as far a I know) was anyone behind the cafe during that time.
How did it get there? More importantly, why did it get there?
Did anything unusual happen to you during this timeframe? (4:23-4:26 PM EST Tuesday, Febuary 28)
Would you suggest that I eat it?
