robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

thanks

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Eh! Could be doc!

But I think it is Odo's baby brother or just a weird lemon.

CCPhotoist Loc: Cape Cod

Don't eat it!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

My wife just told me it is shriveling up in the fridge. Maybe it will make an even better weird subject if she doesn't toss it before I get around to it. She already said he was going to cut it up for juice the next time she makes fish.

tcthome Loc: NJ

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dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I like it a lot. Great photo of it too. Looks like a Male lemon to me.

Dennis

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The wife says it gets cut up to use with fish. Our specials son might just eat it as a snack, he eats, lemons, limes, grapefruit and stone-cold food without telling us instead of asking and getting told NO.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I was busy(reading) and when she asked me to photograph it I just did a hurried job so I could get back to my book.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks, "Male" my wife says the same thing.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

When I was a deputy sheriff in Santa Barbara County the unwritten policy was for deputies to request permission to go Code 7, eat. We all thought it a foolish policy. We knew just as much as dispatch whether it was busy in our assigned areas or not busy. If something of an emergency nature took place we all knew and accepted this was a hazard of the job, not eating, and we were on our way. Being the common sense trouble maker I am I started simply telling our dispatcher, I will be Code 7 at...whatever restaurant I chose that day. The dispatcher said, 10-4, OK. Other deputies picked up the hint and did the same thing. Now who woulda thunk the dispatchers would think that was a great idea? Not one of them ever wanted to be the permission giver of who eats and when. We were all adults and could handle our eating time on our own. The unwritten policy just got changed for the better.

Back to your son eating lemons, limes etc. without asking for permission and getting told NO. Of course you knew that but I think he is a pretty smart young man. I know you are proud of him.

Dennis

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

You just demonstrated what an intelligent family you have. Congratulations. Of course the appendage is pretty hard to miss. I like your posts. Nicely done.

Dennis

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

The last few days I have been feeling Blah!!!! and my typing is suffering as a result.

So to clarify, Jon is Special Needs, 31 but mentality of a bright 5 yo. The problem isn't that he eats the citrus or eats food cold, it is that he eats way too often.
He can have a meal with the rest of the family and then see a commercial on TV and want to eat again. If we have lunch a little early, when he sees the clock says 12 noon, he asks for lunch even though we are still putting the dirty dishes in the washer. They taught him in Special Ed that 12 noon is lunchtime.
Any snack foods, crackers etc. have to be put out of sight, or he will eat some every time he passes by and sees them. If he asks for a fudge bar, I get it for him, my wife tells him to get it himself (so he feels like he can do things for himself). The problem comes when he goes to the freezer and doesn't see the fudge bars (he may have helped himself several times and there aren't any left) but he does see a quart of ice cream. He will get the ice cream and sometimes proceed to eat the whole quart. 1 fudge bar = 1 ice cream, right?
He will also bend spoons etc. when the ice cream has just come out of the storage freezer(set for rock hard) and hasn't been in the freezer of the kitchen fridge long enough to soften. Yesterday I found one of our good heavy duty spoons bent to a near perfect 90°. And melted ice cream on his computer desk where he put the rock hard pint to soften.

He does have a pretty good memory/vocabulary, esp for things he likes, like trains. Ask him about trains and settle down for a long rest while he goes on and on about them showing you his pictures and model trains, demonstrating how a steam engine's drivers work with hand and arm motions etc. etc.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

I knew from your past posts your son was a special needs person. I can see numerous minor heartaches but lots of love and humor too with the latter being far more important in the grand scheme of things God offers. I have only met a few special needs people but every one brightened my heart immensely. They have an honesty and a love for others that is hard to beat. Your ice cream antics might make for a good movie plot.

As for having a meal with the rest of the family and then seeing a commercial and wanting to eat that food, I am occasionally the same way. Jon sounds like quite the lovable character. I can only wish your family well. You are very lucky to have him.

Dennis

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Yes, he is lovable and will sometimes have a flash that puts tears in my eyes. Once we were at the Kaiser Riverside Medical Center, and he saw me looking at a handout map to find the place I needed to take him. He asked what I was reading, and I told him "A map." and his next comment was "That is like a picture of a place showing where stuff is?" I have known some very educated people who have trouble with that concept.

His little sister Jasmine is 2 years younger and when they were in the same school she was always complaining that "Just because I am his sister they are always assigning me to watch him at lunch and events." Well, she doesn't do that anymore, she is a Pediatric Resident at Harbor UCLA hospital.

When we go out to the RR Museum in Perris he is sort of a mascot since he has been going since he was a toddler and Jasmine was in a stroller. We have a family membership and I was in the Operations Department until COVID hit. A rated streetcar motorman on 4 different types and an FRA certified train conductor. he has a conductors uniform and gets to help load and unload passengers or supervise little kids in the play tent that is setup for big events.

jpgto Loc: North East Tennessee

Sure is interesting regardless of what it is but sure has the 'skin' of a lemon!