pumpkins

I bought a pumpkin over the weekend.

It gave me a flashback of last years
pumpkin buying experience...

The Walmart Pumpkin
Last year I was invited to a Halloween Party
I told my friend I would carve some pumpkins for her
because she wasn't skilled in the pumpkin carving area...

so at the last minute I went on this quest for pumpkins
because I always wait 'til the last minute to do everything

So I went with my husband -
we drove around looking EVERYWHERE
nada - no pumpkins - not a pumpkin in sight
no stands on the side of the road none in the supermarket
then we drive by walmart & noticed they had some outside

We take a look... I point at this perfect looking pumpkin
"that one looks pretty good"
My husband picks it up and says nahhhh
there's a mushy spot on the back
so he puts it back down ever so gently
just as he sets it down.. the pumpkin literally exploded

it made this popping sound and it spewed rotting ,vile, stinking
pumpkin juice all over everything
it was all over both of us.. more on my husband

There had to be at least a gallon of festering liquid inside of it
a huge puddle formed underneath it as it gushed out like tidal wave

it smelled so unimaginably bad...
this yellowish, slimy, revolting substance - dripping from his hands
all over his shirt... dripping down my leg and arm

I never knew pumpkins exploded.. It's something I never wanted to know
I have never experienced anything quite like it nor do I ever wish to again

Then he YELLS at ME
Like I was the one who made it explode
Like I wanted rotting pumpkin liquid to spray all over us

we ran to the car to find something to wipe it off with
and ended up using a 1/2 of a bottle of purrell hand sanitizer

but the smell did not disperse

needless to say.. we stopped looking for pumpkins that night
I was able to find a non-rotting one at another supermarket the next day

I hate Walmart.

the moral of the story...
don't wait till the last minute when making a pumpkin purchase