The Case of the Mysterious Mint – Northbound

Tuesday morning I hurriedly packed my lunch for work. Nothing fancy, just a sandwich, some snacks and a piece of fruit…or so I thought.

Unless it was a magical changing fruit, however, it turned out I had packed no fruit at all. When I thought I was grabbing a peach, I had really grabbed an onion! Yuck…so the onion had to make the return bus ride home with me that afternoon, gently stuffed in my bag of course.

Also on the bus that evening was a young professional woman carrying a small pot with a bountiful mint plant. But after ardent observation, I came to suspect that this was no ordinary mint plant…it definitely had “Love Potion #9”-like powers. Not that I’m likening the male gender to an animal, (honest), but men began to really flock to the mint woman! I mean she was certainly an attractive woman, but so were several other women on the 54 that day. It just had to be the mint…

Shortly after watching two men try to maintain mint woman’s attention, with several other admiring male onlookers, a tall blonde guy caught my own attention. Though dressed in business clothes - he seemed slightly out of place in DC. He had to be from California – I mean I can spot those; I’m practically from the West coast. Anyway, California Guy maneuvered past Mint Woman with style and took a seat next to me and my onion. He some how managed to evade the minty aroma that so easily drew in all the other men.

I took a few minutes to ponder his indifference to mint girl, as well as, his great hair cut and color. It couldn’t be the feathery cut and angelic color that protected him from Mint Woman’s powers could it? That’s just silly….

Like all questions worth asking, the answer was revealed in time. Somewhere around Oak Street, he lifted a translucent plastic bag of random vegetables….a dirt covered eggplant, a yellow pepper, an odd shaped tomato… Perhaps his own private garden protected him from the allure of hers…a sort of immintity, I mean immunity.

I had to wonder, what powers had my onion?