Some olive “harvest”…
A week ago, Caltech had its very first olive harvest. Caltech has many olive trees all over campus, and usually they are quite a nuisance because they fall on the ground, get squished under foot, and leave oily splotches on the concrete for months. In the past, the grounds crew would spray the trees to get them to produce less, but then two students decided to pick some olives and make olive oil out of them. (A very clever way to avoid homework, I must say.) Once the students succeeded at producing some actual olive oil, the administration decided to make an annual event of this.
So, call me crazy, but I would think that after an “olive harvest,” there wouldn’t be any olives on the trees anymore after that. Yet for the last week I have been walking around campus and looking at those trees, and guess what — still lots of olives.
I’m pretty annoyed by this. My coworkers think my standards are too high, but if you’re going to do something, do it right. No Olive Left Behind.