Only one person can look at cake (Odd Musings)
There's a power struggle at the grocery store. Several people want to look at cake, but only one person can look at a time. Anything else would be madness!
Maybe it's just me, but I've seen the cake phenomena many many times when I'm browsing the aisles at the grocery store. Say I want to buy cake, but I don't know what brand or flavor to buy. I look at each cake box, calculate the price per good tasting bite factor, maybe check the ingredients to make sure there isn't any hidden pork, and finally make my decision based on how hungry I am right then. Meanwhile, a 40 year-old man with a moustache is pretending to browse the many shaped birthday candles.
He wants to browse the cakes, but he can't. He wants me to get the heck out of the way of the cake, but he uncomfortably pretends to not want to look at the cake. I'm happily reading how many fat-calories are in chocolate cake box #7, while moustache-man has resorted to sorting the birthday candles shaped like numbers. I can't feel sorry for him. This is my time. I am the king of cake. I rule.
Posted by
dave
on Monday, August 18, 2003 at 08:19 AM
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Posted by C on August 20, 2003 07:10 AM
This is soo true.
The worst was the time all I wanted was some cake mix and canned pineapple to make pineapple-upside-down cake, and there was a group of about five developmentally disabled adults standing in the cake asile. They were actually looking at the canned fruit across the aisle from the cake, but still, you can't exactly push them out of your way to look at the cake yourself. I just kept making laps to the frozen food section and back until they finally left.
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