On being a potato

I was reading an article about job interviews ages ago (standard reading for your typical unemployed teenager) and they said you should prepare for questions. One of their example questions was 'What vegetable would you be?'. After going through the usual responses ('...Why would I be a vegetable?' and 'Are we including tomatos in this? [apparently, they are vegetables for the purposes of American tax]) I decided to put some serious thought into this. Hey, it is always good to plan ahead, even for unlikely scenarios! And my verdict is...

A potato!

I even have reasoning to back this up:

• Potatoes grow underground in the dark and don’t socialise with other potatoes. I do have friends (Yes, really) but I also like sitting in my room/reading in various enclosed spaces like cupboards). And have you ever seen a potato throw a party?
• Can be dug up and easily replanted. I've moved a bit so in part this is true. Also, I used to be told to go and stand in a grow bag so I can possibly be planted literally.
• Can do many things (chips, what-the-English-call-crisps, mash, roast) – Okay, I don’t taste as nice, but can’t have it all. However, I can't really cook any of the above.
• Not necessarily good for your health in large amounts. Potatoes make you fat (unless eaten as part of a balanced diet and coupled with exercise). I make you insane (unless seen as part of a balanced lifestyle and coupled with alternative friends) - good insane though, just to reassure you.
• Edible – Ask my friends (yes, the ones I just said I had). They've bitten me before (honest! They are my friends!)
• However, I am always like a potato because if you eat me I die. I had to fit that in somewhere :P
• Not much to look at. Potatos do not win the vegetable beauty contest (unless potatos are your kind of thing? I mean, aubergines are all well and good but...)
• Hey, I was the potato in the Yr 3 French play. I’m fully trained as a potato (Je suis une pomme-de-terre!!!)

So yeah. I would certainly have passed that interview. Especially if it was an interview to be a farmer or a potato in another play. Maybe this explains why I am unemployed...