I showed up at Ms. Darlene Roger’s office the next day.
“Come on in, Joan. I think I have most of your work done. I hope you’ll be pleased. I may have found a way to save you several thousand dollars.”
“Oh, good.”
“Sit down, and I’ll show you.”
“I brought you a bottle of Moxie, too. I thought you might like to taste it.”
“Yes, I would. I’ve never had food from an alien race.”
“Sure, you have, but I bet you didn’t realize it. Haven’t you ever had a cashew?”
“Cashews?”
“Yes, the Eldorans brought them here. They thought our nuts were too hard to swallow, so they had them imported.”
She smiled at me. “I learn something new from you every time you’re here.”
“Then you probably don’t know that only one cashew nut grows in each cashew apple. That’s why they’re so expensive here.”
“No, I
