Hunger and grocery shopping
My mother told me this story some years ago:
When I was a small child (maybe 2 or 3), my mother would always bribe me to go out with her by taking me out to eat. (If you look at me now you can tell that she bribed me a lot of times!)
This one time my mom had to go grocery shopping and bribed me with McDonalds. We went to eat before going shopping. (This would be a mistake that my mother wouldn’t make again.)
When we get to the store I get seated in the shopping cart so she can keep an eye on me. We go through the store for a while as she’s shopping, filling up the cart with the standards in groceries – bread, vegetables, meats, cereals, etc. Of course, since the cart was full some of the stuff would have to sit next to me. For some reason, I decided to get loud and tell my mom that “I was hungry.” She kept on insisting that we just went and ate lunch and I wasn’t hungry, but bored. This would go on several times with people starting to stare at me.
My mom would keep insisting that I’m not hungry. And, being the brat I am, I grabbed a head of lettuce that was next to me and took a big bite out of just to prove that I was hungry. My mom got really embarrassed.
(On a side note: When I tell people that story I tell them, jokingly, that that’s the reason why they put cellophane on the lettuce!)