Jerm’s Tomato Theory: As you eat through the ripe tomatos in a bag, the most ripe of the less ripe tomatoes, through relativity, become the most ripe tomatoes, though in all practical terms they’re no riper than when you began. The net effect of this is that it takes 2 or 3, “Ugh, that was a bad one!”s before you realize that you’re eating a tomato whos grade of ripeness you’d have thought unconsumable when the truly ripe tomatoes were still in the bag.

Jerm’s Corrollary: The knowlege of and acceptace of Jerm’s Theory don’t seem to help one stop reaching for the bag, “Oh, must have missed THIS ripe little beauty….. BLECH!!”

*removes the bag of tomatoes from his desk*