Like every Sunday, I went shopping for the week and bought everything I needed. Nothing suggested that this day would be any different from the others.
The next day after work, I came home ready to cook dinner for my family. I set the table, opened the refrigerator, and began pulling out the fresh produce I had purchased just 24 hours earlier.
That’s when I noticed something unusual. The tomatoes I had bought the previous day looked strange—far from the fresh, smooth produce I had placed in the fridge.
On their skins were small, odd marks I had never seen before. They weren’t the typical soft spots or wrinkles that come with aging vegetables. Instead, they looked almost patterned, as though something had etched itself into the surface.