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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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8:45a - kick out the jams -left at the silverscreen movie lounge thing, before seeing Juno*
Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by a girl (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. It's a random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed at disrupting someone's day in a tiny but positive way. That's if they dare to pick it up...
'Would you like some ribbon on the Sorry cake box?' I asked. It was a legitimate question - I figure if you're going to say sorry, there's no point being half arsed about it.
I've spent a good chunk of my summer as a countergirl at one of my most favourite patissiers. It's been the perfect summer job, it's quiet work and most days I spend ample time reading books and writing stories behind the counter. I sell cakes, pastries and bread to people and get to take the leftovers home to share with friends and family. I've left sourdoughs on porches, tied boxes of cookies to front gates and nursed fat slabs of flourless chocolate cake on the bus home. The chef once told me to take an entire box of vanilla slices home and give them away. I told him I took the bus and they would melt on the way home. 'Give them out on the bus!!' he said, entirely serious.
This particular afternoon I helped a lady pick out a sorry cake. We chose this incredibly decadent little chocolate cake- chocolate mousse and raspberry brulee sandwiched between two fat choc-hazelnut meringue disks, a cookie of a thing that was rolled in dark chocolate and then in hazelnuts. Now that's an apology. Earlier on in the day a man asked if I had jam to go with the croissant he'd just bought. I didn't, and the only thing I could find in individual packets was tomato sauce. Sad.
Only someone like my Mum would actually carry around spare packets of jam in her purse but hey, who knows, maybe the person who finds this will decide to treat themselves to a croissant or a spot of high tea. No more of this diet new-year talk, food was meant to be enjoyed.
S
* Did you know on super cheap Tuesdays you can get silverscreen tickets for $10? So cool!
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