My Love Letter to Lemons

I don’t know where the obsession started…I remember I started drinking Diet Coke with a wedge of lime on vacation in Florida when I was 16. It must have been at some point after that when I switched to lemon since many restaurants don’t have lime available. THEN when I started paying for myself at restaurants, I quickly realized they charge a fortune for pop (soda…{eyeroll}…whatever.) so I started ordering water with lemon. That turned into “can I please have A LOT of lemon?” which turned into Brian adding after I order “she means like a WHOLE lemon.” Once a server asked me if I was planning to make lemonade. I just stared at him, confused. He said, “you know, some people order a bunch of lemons, use the sugar packets on the table and make their own lemonade for free.” 

Me: “Ugh, no. I would never ruin my lemon water like that.” 

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