Pegleg Starfish

T and I went shopping at Wally World this weekend.  We usually go grocery shopping one a week or once every other week.  I don’t particularly like grocery shopping and neither does T.  But that’s not really the point of this post. 

Saturday night is when we went shopping.  Sunday afternoon is when the Watermelon disaster occured. 

Since I’m on a healthy kick I decided to purchase a lovely watermelon.  Watermelon is a healthy fruit.  It’s full of water and delicious fleshy goodness.  Mmm…sounds yummy.  I didn’t really take too much time picking out a watermelon.  I grabbed one that I thought looked good and tossed it in the cart.  It was one of those mini watermelons that look like a bouncy ball. 

Sunday afternoon I was getting ready to clean off the counter.  The watermelon was sitting on the counter and therefore was in my way.  I started to pick it up and watermelon water started gushing out of the bottom of it!  It spewed water everywhere.  I screamed like a girl.  I tried to pick it up again and this time a bunch more water came out.  The water also contained red, mushy, flesh.  What seemed like ten gallons of crap spewed all over the countertop.  And then it hit me.  The smell.  It wreaked!!!  It made our whole apartment smell nasty.  I was seriously gagging from the smell.  I eventually got the rotten melon into a garbage bag and got the mess cleaned up. 

I seriously couldn’t believe that this melon was rotten, nevermind the fact that it leaked it’s rotten juice all over my kitchen!  It was sick.  I thought that maybe there was a bug or giant worm inside that had created a nest of bugs that were going to infest our apartment.  I had to inspect the remains of the melon. 

I took it outside to the dumpster and dumped it out on the ground.  Check this out:

That is a view of the melon from the top.  I poked the thin skin and ripped it open.  There was still mush flowing out of it.  You can see how thin the skin was.  The entire melon was mush!  Gross. 

Here is a shot of the melon on it’s side.  Well-technically perfectly round items such as this don’t really have sides, do they?  You get the point.  The melon was pink mush.  No bugs or deadly worms inside though.  Thank god. 

Did I mention it smelled terrible? 

Next time, I plan on buying a watermelon I will fo sho spend a couple minutes picking it out.  I think shaking this melon would tipped me off to it being rotten.  I’m guessing that it would have sounded something like the ocean.  And sounding like the ocean is never a good thing when it comes to fruit.  Only seashells.