I had a very strange jelly encounter a few weeks ago. I was loading groceries into my trunk in a pretty empty parking lot quite early in the morning. A van drove up beside me and the driver rolled down his window and said "I have something you might want.". He then held up a jar of jelly in his hand. It looked kind of sticky and gross. He said "My wife and I make homemade jelly and we sell it. Would you like to buy some?". The combination of the kind of creepy "stranger with candy in a van" sales approach and the unsanitary appearance of the jar was not tempting.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver
