Fancy Cheese Lessons

Sometimes a really good friend gives you fancy cheese as a gift, even though they know you aren’t fancy. Then, maybe you don’t realize until the first bite that it’s covered in fancy wax. Then, even though you’re by yourself, and with some embarrassment, you probably discretely and gently remove the wax and continue to eat the rest of the non-wax cheese in a sort of quiet but apologetic silence. In that moment you realize that eating fancy cheese requires extra care in case it’s coated with some kind of protection your normal non-fancy cheese doesn’t have. And then you realize, eating cheese will never again be the simple pleasure you once knew.