This morning on my way to Communications class I stopped to get a cup of coffee. As I was paying for it, I was captivated by a ‘cup’ of Skittles for sale. It was called stow and go or something. So I decided to drink the coffee right then, and save the skittles for class.
As I was sitting there in class, I realized this stow and go concept has ruined Skittles for me. Instead of sitting there paying attention, and occasionally sneaking Skittles, I find myself really distracted by the colored candy. When I stopped to think why this was, the answer was clear. When you eat Skittles in the bag, all you can do is hope for a good shake to yield good colors. You have very little control about what colors come out of the bag.
However, eating Skittles in the cup gives you full color control. This is a welcomed feature, until you’ve eaten all of the Reds and Greens off of the top layer. And so the digging begins. You feel compelled to dig for the good colors. Because you can. It’s a candy power rush. So once I ate most of the good colors, I became desperate. I started furiously digging, with my whole hand in this tiny cup. I pulled out a red one, and looked at it like “My Precious”. So with a smirk, I brought my rainbow colored hand to my mouth, and I ate it.
I’ll never be able to go back to the bag because the cup gives you so much power, but clearly, the power of the rainbow isn’t safe in the hands of men.
Joshua Ziering