The Curious case of Band-Aid

Have you ever given complete attention to food while eating it? I mean 100% attentive on the food that you eat. Look at each bite of food carefully before eating it? Well i had to on last weekend. I was at my friend’s place and my friend’s wife had cooked mouth watering dishes. The dishes were dal tadka, tomato curry and shrimp curry. Chapathis and pappad were in abundant to support those dishes. All the dishes were well organized on the dining table and we were about to start the lunch, my friend’s wife made a statement that the band-aid that she was wearing on the right hand index finger is missing and she thinks that it might have come out during cooking. We looked at each dishes stirring them but were unable to find a band-aid in any of them. Then the next question came to mind was whether the band-aid has melted in the dish. Be what ever the case we had to eat the food as a lot of hard work was involved in the cooking and the food looked delicious and the other major reason was it was raining and were lazy enough not to go out for lunch. Then started the part of eating where we checked each bite of food for band-aid or something that looked similar. We took 45 minutes and finished the lunch but we were unable to find the band-aid in dishes. Till now we are unable to find the band-aid and it has been a curious case of a missing band-aid. It has been a week since this episode has happened and none of us had any stomach upset. So all is fine :)