144) Book By Its Cover

My dad visited for a few days, and each morning I greeted him with a breakfast smoothie.  My smoothies include apples, bananas, pineapple, yogurt and spinach.  Most of the ingredients are fruit, but once spinach goes in there, no matter how much you put in there, the entire thing turns green.  I put a generous portion of spinach, and so my smoothies are generously green.  My dad took one look at the smoothie and said, "No, thank you."  If I remember it correctly, he did not actually say the "thank you" part.  And there might have been an expletive before the "no".

I am stubborn and I do not let people get away so easily.  I explained that he was to drink the smoothie, end of story.  He took one sip and immediately pursed his face up like he just sucked on a green lemon.  While I admit that my smoothies may not taste as good as a big plate of blueberry pancakes with maple syrup,  eggs over easy and five sausages (Don't forget the pie), they certainly do not warrant an immediate disgust face.  I know they are green, but they do not taste like spinach.  They taste like an ordinary fruit smoothie.

Fifteen minutes later he brought me the empty glass and said, "You know, that didn't taste half bad!"

While we know it is wrong, we still can't help but judge a book by its cover.  Speaking of books, I am finishing up book 1 and it is time to design the cover.  The trick is to make it look like a plate of blueberry pancakes.  Because no matter how good the book may be, no one will try it if it looks like a green smoothie.