Roses are red

Roses are red and so are lobsters, but every once in a while one turns up orange. And so it was that the Red Lobster restaurant in the seafood haven of Pueblo, Colorado, had an orange one in their regular shipment of future dinners the other day.

And an experienced employee who has climbed the corporate ladder to dishwasher and Head Biscuit Maker happened to be unpacking some new residents of the lobster tank, and he saw something off-color about this guy. He called in the managers and they decided that, instead of winding up on the plate of a guy wearing a bib with a picture of a lobster on it, the Orange One (nicknamed Crush after the Denver Bronco defense of long ago) deserved to swim in the Downtown Aquarium in Denver. 

“Myself and many of my team are born and raised Denver Broncos fans, so as soon as we saw that orange color, we knew that Crush would be an excellent representation,” said Kendra Kastendieck, the restaurant’s general manager. “And we all want our defensive line to be that good again.” She packed old Crush in with ice packs in one of those styrofoam coolers and took him to his new swimming hole.

After 30 days, Crush will have a veterinarian check him over, and then he'll be in the exhibit with other cold water North Atlantic Ocean species.

I guess I'm the bad guy. I wish Crush well, but I picture myself with a bib on, and him on a plate with a baked potato and some broccoli.