Temptation

In this short, a bird eyeballs a cactus, and cannot resist touching it. It reminds me of a day in 1977, in which 8 year-old-me could not resist touching someone else’s chicken pot pie. I was invited over for dinner at my friend’s house, and the table was nicely set with (what I thought I heard them call) “chicken POP pies”, which fascinated me, wondering what sort of chicken would not only be inside of a pie, but make it pop, and how and when do they pop? I waited for the chance to investigate, staring at these cute little popping pies set on the table. When the coast was clear, with nobody else in the dining room, I quickly approached what I thought was my place setting, and didn’t delay one second. I not only touched the little pie, but inserted my finger completely through the crust, holding it there, waiting for it to pop. It was hot, but I needed to see how this worked. It didn’t pop. With my finger still in the pie, in walks my friend’s Grandmother, who saw me there with my finger in the pie, yelled at me, and told me how rude it was to “stick your finger in other people’s food.” As it turns out, that was not my place setting. Also, as it turns out, they are called chicken POT pies, and they do not explode. I was embarrassed, and a little disappointed.