Edamame

I really hate when I don't know how to do something, so I start to copying another person thinking that it is how you do it, but at the end it's not actually right... I was at a sushi restaurant in a normal Sunday afternoon, eating with my parents and some of their friends. There were many types of sushi rolls: salmon, crab, squid, and others that I couldn't really tell what they were. And there was this other thing that looked some what like peas, they were green and they were in the peel that had little grayish hair on them; edamame, or so they were called. I wasn't exactly sure how to eat them so before I did anything, I looked around to see how other people were eating it. I spotted one of my parent's friend, his name was Jose. He was taking edamame from a pile, putting it into his mouth, biting it a little, feeling the taste and then taking it out of his mouth looking digusting and all smushy with saliva. It didn't look so provocative to eat, but who knows? maybe it tasted good... I took a few minutes to see a couple of more times how to do it, when I finally felt that I had learn I reached out to my closest pile and grabbed one, when I was about to put it into my mouth I heard Paola --Jose's wife-- let out an outburst of laughter, "Please tell me that you were eating from that pile? Those are the ones that had been already eaten!!", she said still laughing, as she showed him how to eat them properly. I saw how Jose's eyes opened like two big marbles and spitted out the disgusting-already-eaten edamame. I was bitting my lip trying not to laugh, so I just kept it a smile. Apparently he didn't know how to eat them either... I couldn't believe that I was going to eat it like he was doing, thank god I didn't, it would've been so embarrassing. Poor Jose, he looked so perplexed...