Norman entered his apartment a few minutes after noon on a Saturday. He set his keys in a bowl by the door, hung his coat on a hook, and walked into the kitchen. The sound of his footsteps changed as they met with linoleum.
Norman took a plate out of the cabinet and placed it on the counter. Then he opened his bread box, and took out the loaf of bread. He untwisted the wire bread tie, took two slices of bread out the bag, put them on the plate, and then tied the bag back up and put it back in the bread box.
Norman walked to the refrigerator, and opened the door. He felt cold air escaping. Norman retrieved a jar of mayonnaise, a package of ham, and an individually wrapped slice of American cheese. Norman closed the refrigerator door and returned to his plate on the counter, where the two slices of bread awaited their sandwich innards.
Norman took two slices of ham out of the package and placed them on the bread. Then he delicately opened the American cheese slice wrapping, taking care to not tear the cheese. He put the unwrapped cheese on the ham, opened the cabinet below the sink, and threw the wrapping in the trash.
Norman picked up the jar of mayonnaise and checked the expiration date. He had just bought the mayonnaise and knew it wasn't expired, but he looked anyway: Jun 2016. Below the expiration date were additional instructions: "Keep cool, don't freeze."
He opened the drawer, picked up a butter knife, opened the mayonnaise jar, scooped out some mayonnaise with the knife, and spread it across the slice of bread that didn't have ham and cheese on it.
Norman licked the extra mayonnaise off the knife and put it in the sink. Then he took the jar of mayonnaise and the package of ham back to the refrigerator, opened the door, put them back where they went, and closed the door.
Norman took the plate with the sandwich on it into the living room and set in on the coffee table. He sat down on the couch and looked at the sandwich for a second. He wondered why he had made a sandwich, he wasn't especially hunger. Norman ate the sandwich anyway.
Submitted January 31, 2016 at 11:37PM by kingcobraninja http://ift.tt/1PNTFED lifeofnorman
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