We Need More Potatoes

I'm trying to process all the news coming out of Brussels this evening.  I used to live near Brussels, not that it gives me any more right to be indignant or sorrowful or anything.  The reaction of some of the American candidates for president are shocking me as well.  I don't want to delve into politics--that's not the point of this blog.  It just seems to me that nothing has ever been solved by stirring up hatred and fear.

Which leads me to what I was originally planning to write about before I came home and saw the news.  Our principal talked about how important it is to encourage other people, and how you feel good when you hear encouraging words EVEN IF THEY AREN'T DIRECTED AT YOU.  You feel better when people around you are being nice to other people.  Radical concept, right?

In one of my more crazy brilliant schemes, I decided that it would be GREAT to encourage my teammate by sending her a potato.  Yes, this is a real thing.  It's called AnonymousPotato.com, and they will ship a potato emblazoned with a message of your choice to anyone you want.  Anonymously, of course.  You can even purchase accessories for the potato such as a burlap sack.  I did not opt for the burlap sack.

I have been updating the tracking information ever since I ordered it, and today was the day!  I only wish I had been in the office when she checked her mailbox.

Of course, no one (and I do mean NO ONE) had any doubt where the potato had originated from, which I find vaguely insulting.  But only vaguely.

I think I made her day a little bit brighter.

My point: Send someone a potato.  Or just be kind and nice and encouraging.  Don't let the haters tell you how to think.

I had a Groupon, by the way.