Blog Number 294

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Life is not fair.  Shocker, huh?  I was told once that it all depends on your definition of fair.  Probably though in no one's definition would my the things my wife had to go through (and is still going through) could her current lot in life qualify as fair.  I try to teach my kids this often.  For instance, look at the way the family eats M&Ms.  "Oh," your probably saying "this is going to be good (or interesting at least)".

Recently we received a package via Fed Ex (or maybe DHL, I forget - this detail is not important to the story really so I don't know why I am even bringing it up).  Inside that box was a 56 oz package of plain M&M's.  The package was meant for the wife however based on my interpretation of the note inside, it was OK that I have some as well (note that I am not including the wife's interpretation of said note - how unfair of me).  At any rate, when the kids saw the package, they assumed (without even reading the note) that it was for the entire family to share.  Tonight we decided to open the bag and eat some.  I counted out roughly 100 of them in a bowl and then explained the rules on how we would pass them out.

1. Each person picks a color of M&M (there are six: green, red, yellow, blue, orange and brown)
2. Each person gets all the M&M's that are the color that they picked.
3. Since there are only 4 of us and 6 colors, the person who has the LEAST amount of M&M's (from the color they selected) gets the REST of the M&M's

Tonight the daughter picked green (19), the son picked blue (25), the wife picked orange (17) and I picked red (15).  This gave me the yellows (12) and the browns (12) as well for a total of 39.  Now, I was nice and gave some of mine to the wife and daughter (just a few) but in the end, I still ate more than anyone else.

I would guesstimate that we have enough candy left to do this for the rest of the month (this is one huge bag).  Well, it is time for the daughter's shower and then bedtime for the kids.  Maybe the wife and I can play the M&M game again after the kids are in bed (I know it's not fair, but what they don't know about they can't complain about so shhhh!).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon