PLAIN AND PEANUT

The vending machine man says that he never puts Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the machine until winter because they melt too easily. You always know it’s winter, he says, when you see Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups in the machine. And M & M Plain? Everybody hates them. Everybody. Don’t ever look for M & M Plain because you will be wasting your time. But M & M Peanut are everybody’s favorites. Peanut M & Ms will always be there. Everybody loves the Peanut. And the vending machine man sighed.

I don’t know if the vending machine man sighed because he felt sorry for M & Plain or happy about M & M Peanut. But then I remembered that M & M Peanut were everybody’s favorite. The vending machine man was like everyone else, and he was talking about something that was his favorite, so naturally, he sighed. You sigh when things make you happy, like peanuts, not when things make you sad, like plain.