An overall good trip late September to farm boy with the one exception of a lady who felt the need to touch every single nectarine.

I unfortunately was on a somewhat date night so going into jerk mode to tell her off wasn’t on the agenda. People like her will never learn to respect other people unless confronted. Even if you do say something, no guarantees that they care at all about anyone but themselves.

This lady was the exact example of why they often use the new plastic containers so people can’t do that. I don’t know why anyone thinks it’s ok.

There might be some people that think you should check to see if they are all ripe. That’s not actually how it works. You should check the ripeness level of one (max 2). If it matches your criteria take the basket.

In most cases, it’s best to get them not ripe yet and then allow them to ripen on your counter and eat them as you go along. If too many ripen at the same time, you put them in the fridge. At no point do you want an entire basket of ripe nectarines unless you’re having a party and plan to eat them all. Testing each one of them is not only a failure understanding wise but it’s also disrespectful to everybody else that might buy the fruit. Even though we wash them, we don’t want your grubby fingers all over the food we are eating.

Decades from now when we are dealing with all these plastic containers that didn’t get recycled, people like the lady I met will need to accept that it’s their fault. We had nice little baskets made of cardboard that worked great and composted when not recycled. Unfortunately people touching everything made the plastic containers the better choice.

Now we have a bunch of plastic waste all because of inconsiderate ignorant people. If only they thought a bit more before touching all the fruit.