Corner Booth

I woke up this morning and thought..."Hey, I've got a Monday off, I should go to the grocery store in the afternoon while everyone is at work, thereby missing the crowd. This plan is sure to work, I'm clever." Once I reached the Kroger in Hyde Park, though, I realized that this is the day before the 4th of July and everyone and their brother was stocking up for cook outs. Shit. It crossed my mind to leave and come back another day, but then I realized that I had absolutely no food in my apartment and trudged on in. Upon entering, I made a few observations:

1. Many of the 40-something women that shop in this particular Kroger truly believe they are movie stars, or royalty, or that someone in the paparazzi just might show up and mistake them for one of the two. These women are funny to watch. They walk around the store with their sunglasses on, refusing to look or acknowledge anyone else, and make it a sport to play chicken with their shopping carts...they never move because they're better than everyone else. Actually, now that I think about it...maybe they're all just blind. Now I feel mean.

2. It only costs roughly $100 to realize exactly how unhealthy your lifestyle really is. I bought no fruit, no vegetables, no pasta, no fish. I did, however, buy cheese filled pretzels, a frozen pizza, a box of Betty Crocker brownies, and a tube of chocolate chip cookie dough, which I have no intention of baking, but rather eating raw. If I live past the age of 40 they're gonna have me in a lab doing experiments on me to see how polysaturated fats, nicotine, and alcohol...in the right proportions...can sustain life.

3. Whoever the fuck "Don" is, that bastard needs to be fired. Apparently there was a "Clean-up in aisle 15," for about a half hour that he was to attend to according to the pissed-off, nasally woman on the intercom system, but he never did.

4. I just really don't like people. (Except you guys of course)

Much Love,
Bo