I had a cucumber dish that made me mad.

To avoid the long line at Ichiran, I diverted to Bites of Xian, and ordered the garlic cucumber.

Some bites tasted so sweet, like nasty candy, that it made me mad.

Other bites tasted so weirdly spicy, in my nose and in the back of my head, that it made me mad.

And they served the cucumber in such big, unwieldy chunks that it made me mad.

And they served it in such a sloppy, wasteful plastic bin that it made me mad.

Then I realized Bites of Xian didn't spin off Xi'an Famous Foods, which made me mad, because they showed off a picture of the head of Bites of Xian giving a talk with Maye Musk, which made me mad.

It made me so mad that I considered dumping the cucumbers into the compost bin. However, they didn't have a compost bin, which made me mad. So I just sat there, seething, choking down the cucumber, cursing the poster of the head of Bites of Xian.