“Do not eat before driving”

I keep a few nibbles in my drawer at work. Mostly it’s nuts and dried fruit, but I’ve also got a weakness for Sesame Snaps, which I don’t think qualify as either of the above.

Some time ago, I bought rather a big bag of dried figs, but I found that a few figs go a long way and it was taking me a long while to get through the bag, and although they were well within their “use-by” date, they were becoming very sugary on the outside.

Yesterday, I thought that even though they were sugary that they were probably still good and extracted the bag from my bottom drawer, but upon opening it, I decided that as it was only an hour before I was expecting to drive home that maybe I shouldn’t be eating one after all, as the whole bag no longer smelt figgy, but more like brandy!

I offered Dave (who sits at the next desk) a sniff, and he agreed with me.

As they didn’t seem appropriate any longer for office consumption, I brought them home, but I suspect that Stephen has binned them.