Last night I went to Target with my roommates. (I should get paid for talking about Target in this post. That's twice that I've said Target. 3 times now.) We all needed groceries and new stuff. I was starving. I wanted to shower after my run and I didn't have time to shower and eat before we went to Target. I picked shower.
So when we got to Target I was so hungry I was cranky. I needed food in me ASAPAP. The first thing we walked past was the special deal section in the front and they had cereal. I grabbed a box and immediately opened it to start eating.
Right before I took the first bite, I looked at my roommates to inform them that this was happening: I was going to eat this cereal while we shopped because I was hungry. And I would pay for it.
I felt bad for a second. Is that totally dishonest? Is that only permissible when you are trying to keep a screaming toddler happy while you get groceries? Was I so immature that I couldn't handle being hungry and I had to thieve a box of cereal??
The need for food overrode all of those thoughts and I basked in the goodness of eating handfuls of dry cereal as I perused the movies and books and Halloween decorations. Yes, I ate cereal through all of those aisles.
By the time I went to pay or all my stuffs, I had forgotten about the open box of cereal so I don't even know if the cashier noticed or reacted in anyway. Maybe people do that all the time. Maybe it's totally normal and acceptable. Maybe I'll start doing it more often.
Or maybe I'll just try harder to eat dinner before I go out.
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