Camel Apples

Hoo boy. It's Hump Day again.

Hiya, Friends!  Well, it's Wednesday all over again!  Joe the Camel's in the building, asking everybody what day it is. 

You know, last Wednesday, we got him good.  A bunch of us from my department put our money together and bought a big caramel apple, with extra caramel, so it was nice'n'chewy, and then we left the apple for him at the Security Kiosk.  Hector, our security guard, said he'd give Joe the Camel the caramel apple for us, and he did, right when Joe the Camel came through the front doors.

We don't wanna be rude to Joe Camel!

What we were hoping for, and what we actually got, happily, was that the caramel apple would be so chewy and caramelly that Joe Camel would be so tied up in eating it that he'd forget about coming up to our floor to ask all of us to guess what day it is ("Hump Day!" Joe!  Just like every Wednesday, all day!  Do we really hafta go through this EVERY Wednesday, Dude?)  It's kind of disruptive, and Joe Camel doesn't let anybody off the hook.  EVERYBODY's got to answer him.  At least twice or thrice!

Thing of it is that while we're all kind of tired of playing the Hump Day game with Joe the Camel, we all like him and we don't want to hurt his feelings.  That's what made ambushing him with a caramel apple at the Security Kiosk so genius.  It kept him out of all our hair for the whole first half of the day, he enjoyed sitting down at the Kiosk with Hector, asking people coming into or leaving the building what day it was, Hector liked the company, and we could get our work done.  It was a win-win-win-win-win situation. 

When the goin' gets tough, give 'em candy!  Yeah!

We can't get Joe the Camel a big caramel apple EVERY Wednesday, though.  Too much of that, and he'd need caps, which the caramel would pull right off.  We don't wanna make Joe the Camel go through extensive dental work, just to keep him from bugging us on Wednesdays!  That's not what a friend does!

So for today, we're just grinning and bearing it.  Yes, Joe the Camel, it IS Hump Day!  Woooo-wheeeeee!  I bet your pleased as punch!  I bet it must never get old to be a camel on Hump Day!

Maybe, though, somebody out there has a teeth-friendly caramel apple recipe they'd share?  We could call 'em "Camel Apples," and we could have 'em always at the ready for when Joe the Camel stops in.  I think that sounds like a GREAT idea!

I love ya, Friends!  Muah!