Green

I went to the store just the other to buy a bag of peanut M+Ms because the crave was on.  In the candy aisle, which was filled from top to bottom with all kinds of Valentines candies, I noticed a very strange bag of Peanut M+Ms.  They were all green.  Very, very green.  Each and every one of them were green.  And the same color of green too.  Sometimes they actually try and mix different colored green ones together.  But not these.  On the front of the package there sat one very large, round and green M+M looking rather enticing with long, draping eyelashes, plump, green lips, and dark, floating eyebrows.  All this was situated beside the slogan, "Green, the new color of love."  Very curious.  I put the bag back and found another bag of the peanut kind that held the classic Valentine's Day colors of red, bright pink, soft pink, and white.  I grabbed the all-green bag again and read the labels.  I read the labels on the pink bag.  All Peanut M+Ms alright.  And all for Valentines Day.  The thought crossed my mind at one point during the exchange that maybe the St. Patrick's Day candies were out too.  But after some debate I decided that the green ones were, in fact the Valentine's candies.   And after even more debate, I left the candy aisle with the pink bag.   

Not sure I'm ready for green being the new color of love.  I think of gang-green.  or puking over the railing of a sail-boat.  Mold growing on old food.  Dirty, crumbling spunges, the kind with the green rough surface on one side and the yellow sponge on the other.  I think of mildew.  And tangly, thick seaweed floating through the ocean.  Drunken green men posed as shamrocks slumping through bars.  I think of spinach unknowingly caught between my two front teeth and smiling at a very cute man at the next table over.  Yeah.  It may take me some me time to re-direct my thinking into green being the color of romance and love.  I don't even wear green.  Except for those opportune moments while eating spinach.