olive

Claudius and I have a little bit of a disagreement about olives. He believe black olives are the best, and I think green ones are. So occasionally he will bring it up, and express his love and devotion to black olives, and I will stay stubbornly favorable to green.
Yesterday, we went grocery shopping, and as we ventured to the deli I saw his eyes lite up when he saw the selection of olives available. So he ordered 100mg of black olives and was about to leave when I ordered 100mg of green olives. He gave me this face like I was blaspheming the name of olives. I just laughed and we went our way shopping in Koufland!
Later that night after dinner, Noami and a few others including Claudius and I were all relaxing and telling stories. I told them all about Claus' reaction to my buying the green olives and they laughed. He then boldly asked me to go get the olives. When I returned with the containers, he took mine and picked out a decent looking gloriously green olive and stuck it in his mouth. His reaction was like a two year old who just had a taste of lemon or vinegar. I have never seen a 30 year old man make a face like this. I am laughing just remembering it! After he choked down the olive, he was out of breath and exclaimed "THAT COULD KILL A DOG, KIRSTEN!!!" We were all laughing. So I stuck one in my mouth, and I will admit it to you, it was pretty disgusting. Green olives taste much different here then in America. I don't know if it was my pride or something in me that loved the disagreement, but I acted as if I had just eaten a golden egg or a chunk of the finest chocolate :))! He freaked out and snatched the black olives from my hand. Before eating them he kissed the tips of his fingers and waved his hands in pure joy and excitement.
Who could have thought olives would bring out the child-likeness in a man? I don't know, but I love it!