Comments on: Airhead

By: Jessica

Jessica — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:59:53 +0000

Thanks Mom, :-) I love how you get me. Hee hee.

By: carol

carol — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:54:30 +0000

jess, i think the story is funny as hell! i can see you running around the grocery store thinking you are going to burn in hell for this and how you can make it right. i love you! it reminds me of an i love lucy episode, you try so hard to please and put yourself in a pridicament trying to please your husband and it wasnt even what he asked for. its funny!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:51:03 +0000

I’m thinking this piece was a bit of a failure. I honestly intended (as much as I love animals and personally choose not to eat them) for my writing to be more tongue in cheek than anything else. I suppose it came across far more serious than I’d wanted it to. My husband found it humorous, but then again, he gets my sense of humor. I’ll have to work on channeling that into my writing in a broader, more skilled way.

robin, thank you, :-) I sure hope I’m generating good karma.

Amber, I’m pretty much in agreement. I realize that whether or not I bring home a part of the lobster or the entire animal, I’m supporting my husband’s omnivorous diet. I just felt awful and yet, saw the humor, in the fact that I, as a vegetarian, ordered the lobster to its death, :-) I can’t believe I just added a smiley face.

abbie, thank you for the biology lesson. Seriously, I try not to kill any insects unless I think they’ll harm my children or my garden. So, yes I would kill a spider if I wasn’t sure whether or not it was poisonous, but if it were a daddy-long-leg, I’d probably pick it up and bring it outside. That’s just me.

And you’re right, I supported a fisherman’s business, and that’s awesome. That is how I justify purchasing a live Christmas tree each year too (aside from the fact that I’m also not exposing my kids to the plastics in the fake ones) . . . we try our best to support local businesses and farmers.

By: abbie

abbie — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:51:04 +0000

Yup, there are separate male and female lobsters. Females in some states (like Maine) are illegal to take because they contribute to the breeding population. So I’d guess it was a him, but still could have been a her. If it had pink eggs inside the tail, it was a female. That’s your biology lesson for today :)

And a lobster would still have to die whether or not it was just a tail. Would you kill a spider? There’s not much difference between a lobster and a spider, if that makes you feel better.

AND… you can feel happy that you probably supported a family business. We have friends in Maine who are lobser fishermen, and most of them are coops of individual families. I think that’s good karma :)

By: Amber

Amber — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:48:15 +0000

I don’t think that the lobster is going to generate bad karma for you. Had you bought a tail, it would have the same effect on SOME lobster SOMEWHERE. I know it’s more upsetting to feel directly responsible, but it’s really the same thing. As your husband eats the meat, I say he takes the blame. And I say that as a meat-eater, myself.

(And I would have not idea how to buy a lobster, either. My experiences with them are also limited to my kid’s enjoyment of them.)

By: robin (woowoo mama)

robin (woowoo mama) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:00:28 +0000

i personally believe you are racking up more bad karma for being so hard on yourself about the whole thing than for telling the grocer to steam the lobster.

but, take that with a grain of salt. i am after all a meat eating animal communicator. from my research i feel comfortable eating meat that was raised and slaughtered humanely so i am picky about my sources but i do eat meat.

i will second your wifely awesomeness too. i have no idea how to buy a lobster or a lobster tail!