Worms everywhere

This is a funny story but I am sure everyone would enjoy it.

A brief background. When I was working I used to carry fruits for breakfast. I put feel very comfortable eating fruit. Besides eating fruits has its own health benefits. It was convenient to sit at the desk, continue to work, and have breakfast which would be fruits. Every morning my mother would cut fruits in a tiffin and would pack them for breakfast.

Now this incident occurred a couple of years ago. My mother had packed muskmelon for the breakfast. I reached the office, opened my laptop, opened my tiffin, and started working. I started my work and site by site I was having my breakfast. Little reading or a typing here and taking a bite of muskmelon there. This is how it was going with me. The muskmelon was delicious and I was quite enjoying the bite size pieces which my mother had carefully and artistically cut. I had finished almost half of my tiffin. Suddenly I received a teams call so I stopped eating for some time. After the discussion got over I look that my tiffin to see how much is still remaining. This is when I saw something that made me shudder.

I looked at the pieces of muskmelon. First I noticed a little movement. I took the tiffin in my hand because I wanted to inspect it closely. I took the tiffin closer so that I can see who or what is causing that movement. There I saw a worm. It was light peach coloured worm almost how the muskmelon looks like. It was wiggling in the piece of the fruit. It was really tiny. Approximately one and half millimetre long. With my perfect eyesight I was able to see it but otherwise it was very difficult to spot.

That sight give me a disturbing thought. If it just one worm or are there going to be more worms in the fruit? I cannot let that thought sit idle. I had to find out if there were more worms. I inspected another piece of muskmelon. That piece had the same condition. I saw another one with similar colour and similar dimension wiggling within the fruit. I started inspecting each peace of fruit that was there in the tiffin. Each fruit had the similar worm infestation. That made me wonder how many worms had I already eaten before realising. Also I thought that the fruit was delicious, watch that because of the worms? Did those worms enhance the taste of muskmelon?

Next thought that clouded my mind was what next? What what I supposed to do? Of course the remaining pieces I was going to throw. But what about the pieces that I had already eaten? What should I do about a that? I was working with doctors so I asked one of the doctors for their opinion. This doctor told me that I should just trust my gastric environment to take care of it. No harm would come to me. I believed him and I trusted my gastric enzymes to do the rest. Thankfully I did not get sick because of the worms that I had eaten.

Even today I remember this episode and I laugh at it. My nephew calls me "the worm eating aunty" because of this episode. This incident state with me and I am glad that it makes everyone laugh. I hope you enjoyed it too.