Living in a Box

I sometimes wonder if people like staying in boxes, if it makes them secure. What speaks against that is their need to shout at those not sharing a box. A person feeling secure does not feel the endless need to pick on others.
This last challenge on DPC was called Fruits & Vegetables and the description was as follows:
-Photograph a fruit.
-Photograph a vegetable.
-Photograph a fruit and a vegetable.
-Photograph as few or as many as you like.
Seems pretty clear to me that this macro shot of an apple would fit in. But oh no. There was a heated discussion and the ones that know it all at all times :) told us that a should only met the challenge if there were both fruits and vegetables, and in plural. Several people tried to explain, but no go.
Nuff said.
I had thought it would be pretty easy to get a good shot and had this fantastic idea of freezing some fruit in a bowl and then photograph the ice with all the fruit frozen inside. It was a complete mess. Then I got another idea, piecing some different fruit together. Didn't go well, but while I was slicing, I thought the apple looked rather nice, so I went for a macro.
I am sending warm toughts to all of the people who feel the need to live in a box. Stay there if you like, but permit those not sharing the box to stay free from your boxes. You see, our box is called "the-not-in-a-box-box". *huge grin*