THE CHEESE MAN

Ok, so, as a lot of y'all know, my family has this... kinda strange obsession with cheese. We get our cheese at this place called Alons (which I was just describing to Emily an Frances this Friday--was it this Friday?) Anyways, the cool thing about getting your cheese there was that, initially, the guy who gave you your cheese legitimately looked like a mouse. And he had this guy working under him who also looked like a mouse, only the Checloslovachian kind because he couldn't speak any English. Anyways, so this guy knew EVERYTHING there is to know about Cheese. Like, he would go on and on about how they would let the cheese get ripe, and what kind of animals they got it from, and all the different laws about importing cheese into the country--it was great! But then one day he disappeared. We didn't see him for a couple of months except once when he was explaining something to his counterpart. After that the Checlooslovachian mouse took over. What's even sadder is eventually the Checloslovachian mouse went away too, and now we're stuck with a markedly un-mouse like woman who looks like she's more interested in the peircing at the tip of her nose than in her customers. It was a very sad time for us, as you can imagine. Being cheese freaks, we like our cheese to be given to us by people who are as freaky about it as we are. Well, this weekend, about a year after Cheese Man's last appearance, I decided that I didn't want to get any of my homework done (bad idea), and that instead of studyng for a Latin AP (piff! Who needs to do that??) me and my mom should go picnicing at the duck pond!! (which is, by the way, another blog entry for another day). On our way there my mom had a stroke of genius in suggesting that we step into Whole Foods and get a snack to go along with our books we recently purchased at Barnes and Noble (so... Frances was entirely right when she said my family is obsessed with books and cheese). So we go into the place, and we're looking around, mostly at all the macaroni and cheese, and all the sudden we stumble on their sad excuse of a cheese isle, and we're trying this grotesque cheese, when there's this voice behind us that's like, 'hey I know you--you used to shop at Alon's a lot didn't you?' AND IT'S THE CHEESE GUY!!!! yay! So, we asked him how he was doing--and he said he was doing pretty good, that he'd left Alons because it was a change that needed to be made (they wouldn't make him a partner even though he was like the smartest/oldest guy they had in there), but that he got paid more anyways at Whole Foods although the days were longer (they work until ten o'clock at night!). He said h did miss Alon's though, the way it used to get pretty insane in there on Saturdays. We said we'd missed him, and that we hoped we'd seen him again sometime, and then cheese man went off again to do something more with cheese. It was so weird to see him in a different outfit though! Cheese man has this kind of fuzzy look about him (like a mouse) with whiskers hat come out of his ears, and he used to wear this white smock at Alons and a white hat. Well, at Whole Foods he was wearing a red jacket and a red hat--which was totally different in the extreme. Anyways, it was really cool to see him again!