Split Pea Soup

Warning: This book contains strong opinions about canned soup, suspicious gas station roller hot dogs, a coworker who compiles workplace injury statistics that he definitely makes up, and a first date that somehow survives against all reasonable expectations.Greg Turner has spent four years at Budget Foods convincing himself he's "e;figuring things out."e; Mindy Coppis has spent three years at the Gas Oasis doing the same. They are both lying to themselves.When Mindy wanders into Greg's soup aisle looking for split pea - the fruitcake of the soup world - she gets more than directions. She gets a full lecture on soup social dynamics, a coworker named Dennis who applies hand sanitizer like lotion and calculates the statistical probability of their relationship, and somehow, against all odds, a reason to come back.For the record, Mindy's last boyfriend wore a cape to parties and owned a ferret named Gandalf. Greg is already ahead of the curve by just showing up.What starts as a shared fifteen-minute break at a picnic table behind their respective jobs becomes something neither of them expected: a real connection, built one stolen afternoon at a time.Split Pea Soup is laugh-out-loud funny, surprisingly tender, and proof that sometimes love shows up exactly where you'd least expect it, usually on the bottom shelf, right next to the lentils.