I rarely take lunch breaks at work. Sometimes I go for a quick walk around campus in the morning, and then I always get coffee in the Arkansas Union every afternoon. So usually I snack and eat at my desk while working or surfing the web. One day, I started noticing what appeared to be dandruff around my keyboard and on my desk. I was shocked and horrified as I had never had a dandruff problem before. Thinking “Surely this isn’t dandruff?”, I ran my left hand through my hair, and this dandruff-like substance rained down on my keyboard. I freaked, quietly mind you (I share an office with others). I went to the bathroom, and violently scratched my head, trying to get as much of “it” out and off of my scalp as I could. I returned to my desk. As the weeks passed (yes, weeks), this happened several more times. When I got my next haicut, I casually asked “Does my scalp look dry to you?”, only to get “No, not really. Aggravated maybe, but not dry.” Aggravated? What the hell does that mean? So now I was getting a complex. What was I going to do?

Back to the eating at my desk, which seemingly has nothing to do with this story, or does it? One day during this ordeal, I was peeling a naval orange to snack on. We get the huge bags of ‘em from Sams Club, they are the best naval oranges I have ever had in my life, seriously. Anyway, I’m peeling this orange and notice the dandruff-like substance, yes, the same substance I had been seeing and believed to be coming from my scalp, I see this stuff all over my desk where I had been peeling the orange. I look at my left hand, this same stuff is all over my hand. And then it hits me. I take my left hand, rub it through my hair, and wax from the orange, NOT dandruff, rains down. Turns out all this time it was not a case of dandruff at all, but the wax from the damn oranges getting stuck to my hands, then coming off on my desk and keyboard while I was working.

These oranges are giving me dandruff.