Impulse Shopping
Where I work, if a meeting is scheduled during the Noon to 1 PM hour, it's generally expected that lunch will be served in some fashion or other--but hopefully on the company account. Now, if you have the distinction of working in one of the more notably peonic departments, as do I, then you'd better have a pretty stinking good excuse for scheduling a meeting during the lunching hour and thusly bleeding the company dry. Well as it so happens, our group had to schedule a lunchy meeting today, but we didn't have a very good excuse for picking that time slot, other than urgency and no other open times, blah blah blah. So the general concensus was that we should do a 'pot luck'. Well, before the idea had fully congealed into reality, my hand shot up and I called dibs on 'chips and dip' duty. Oh man, I'm such a loser.
So I ran into the grocery store on the way in to work this morning to grab the goods. I got 3 varieties of chips, and some Mrs. Renfros salsa (mmmm mmmm), and some Ranch Dip. And as it so happens, I ran across a candy display along the way that had Sweet Tarts & Spree 5-for-$2. And I'm a sucker for those, so I picked some up. Well I get to the checkout stand, it's 8:30 am, and this inquisitive but suspicious, grandmotherly lady is running my goods across the scanner. Now I don't mind a little 'hi, howya doin' chitchat with the cashier, but as I'm punching in my pin number, she says:
Cashier: "My, with all this junk food you must be going to the movies..."
Me: "Umm...huh?" oooooh, wasn't expecting that one. And wha? chips and salsa at the theater? "Uh, no, I have chip duty at a pot luck today."
Cashier: "Well you've also got all these Sweet Tarts and Spree..."
Me: "No, um, thats...for somebody else..." (She was obviously on to my junk food addiction. I couldn't let on that I bought those for my own snacking orgies.)
Cashier: "Oh, I see, it must be for valentines day..." and now picture her knowing smile and nodding head.
Me: "ahhh ahah..."
It makes me wish I had dropped some other choice items into the mess while I was at it. I can only imagine the comments and advice I would've gotten out of that one.
Sweet Tarts
Sweet Tarts
Sweet Tarts
Thin Maxi
Spree
Spree
Toilet Plunger
M&Ms
Clothes Pins
::shriek::
Kevin @ 11:44PM | February 11th 2003
Why is it that as adults, we're embarrassed to buy candy? As a child I used to spend hours in the candy aisle drooling over all the delectables, doing complex math in my head in an attempt to get the most chocolatey goodness for my meager allowance. Today, I pass the candy aisle at the supermarket and hear the Almond M&Ms calling me, and yet I feel the disapproval of society, and I quickly flee from the candy aisle lest people think I actually like candy. I guess sometime around the time it became inappropriate to belch in public, it became inappropriate to desire candy. Adulthood sucks.