I broke my 3 day old pumpkin already.

Friday night the munchkin, the aunt & I went and picked out two pumpkins and then went on to dinner. Apparently I thought pumpkins were much tougher than they really are, because I broke mine in the back end of my ride. I still have all of the crap in my backend that was pictured here. Plus when I went to Meijers a few weeks back I found the best deal ever on 6-packs of 20oz pop...buy 2, get 3 free!! How could I go wrong with that? Other than the fact that in our limited space at home I have no where to put them, so I've been carrying them around in my backend with all of my other stuff. (My LSBFF said that they would be okay, but I bet she didn't see what was coming next!)

So Friday night in the subzero weather I loaded two big pumpkins in it too and I've been carrying those around with me ever since...well, until Monday morning when I went to put my numerous bags in back there. There was no room for my book bag, my work bag (containing several books for school, because I hold out hope everyday that our power will go out and I can do some of my PR reading), and my lunch bag. So I decided to haul the pumpkins out at 7:30am before I headed off to work.

Munchkin's pumpkin was a success! Out with no problem. Mine on the other hand...when I pulled it towards me I realize it has been broken and where the 20oz pop bottle that was up against it the pumpkin is now growing around the pop bottle! YUCK!!! So I carefully decided to haul the pumpkin out and then throw a jacket I had back there around the now nasty, pumpkin, mold infested pop bottles and load my bags in. I didn't have time to clean out the back end.

Of course all of this lead to a pumpkin smell once my car heated up on my way to work and then a discussion with my aunt after I got home from school about the fact that she thought my pumpkin needed to go out in Wednesday's trash and my defense that our house should be able to clean it up and a stand of how I'm not throwing out an almost perfectly half good mold infested pumpkin and wasting all the money I spent on it...you know, that $7!

Of course I later told her how that morning I throw out a sausage biscuit I bought on my way to work, because I wanted a large glass of ice water in a Sweet Tea cup and had to order something to get it free! Apparently I'm okay with throwing out a $1.06 perfectly delicious sausage biscuit but not a $7 nasty-ass pumpkin. Am I the only one that follows my logic?! (Yes, I really wanted the sausage biscuit, but I wanted this more!)