Why you always get the honey bear

Sis and I were doing a Monday evening shopping run at Safeway.  Nearing the end of our list, making for the dairy section, a Safeway employee caught our eye, and, smiling, asked if we’d found everything ok.  We had.

“We got the honey” said sis as our cart stopped beside him.

“Course you do!” he replied, “You got yo honey right here!” (referring to me).

We didn’t bother explaining, and laughed along.  He drew a little closer.

“Organic honey, huh?”  We looked down at our bottle of honey and back up at him.

“You know what you can do...”  We looked back with blank little smiles.

“Next time, get the honey bear.  You know, the honey that comes in the little plastic bear.”

We smiled and nodded, “uh huh”, “sure”.

“Well you get the honey bear and when the honey’s all gone, you take the little bear and you rinse it out real good.”

We continued to smile and nod “uh huh”, “Ok”

“And then you take some food coloring, ok?  And you put a few drops in there and you fill it up with water, and then you’ve got yourself a nice little colored bear and you decorate yo house with that.”

We both started laughing, he cut us off earnestly: “Yeah, so instead of throwing that away, you know, you’ve got yourself a real nice decoration, and you can put ‘em anywhere”.

Realizing that he was serious, we tried to reign in our laughter a bit.

“Yeah, you know you can put ‘em in your bathroom or whatever, and then you’ve got this nice little bear lookin’ back at you in the bathroom or wherever”.

Sis and I came back to earth a little, and I somehow managed a comment about recycling.  We assured him that we would give that a try next time, and, a bit dazed, we carried on with our shopping trip.

Below are instructions for this marvelous little craft

"Honey Bear" by Craig Stevens

You will need:

1 Honey Bear

1 Box of food coloring

A faucet

How to do it:

1. Use all of the honey in the bear.

2. Rinse it out real good.

3. Add a couple drops of food coloring (note: use more drops for a richer-colored bear.  Use less drops for a more translucent bear).

4. Replace the Bear’s hat and shake it up real good.

5. Find a place in your home to display your new decorative bear.