Well I’m just a silly ole goose. All this time I had been so worried about not having any food left in my personal office “pantry” and panicking about what I was going to do with myself now that I can’t be expensing my meals every day, when today it dawned on me that I had over $100 worth of food in gift certificates from my bday. So today for lunch I used $8.50 of my Chipotle gift certificate from my sister, and after work I stopped by Whole Foods to buy myself 8 Annie Chun noodle bowls with my gift certificates after contemplating in front of the canned soup section for about 20 minutes wondering why the fuck all those tiny canned soups are so fucking expensive just because they’re organic ($3.69!!!!!! wtf????), when I shifted my vision to the right and discovered that Annie Chun just-add-hot-water noodle bowls are like 50 cents to $2.00 cheaper than the canned soups. So I bought myself 8 of those, and my calculation this time was near flawless — it all came out to $21.04, just a mere $1.04 over what I had in gift certificates. Perfect.
On a related note, roommates L and K and I are super excited because K’s parents are in town tomorrow and are taking us out to dinner. While enthusiastically contemplating potential dinner locations, we had a good ole laugh over the thought of bringing them to Tasty King (keeping in mind Tasty has room for 2 tiny tables that seat 2 people each). We then thought how amusing it would be if all of our parents got together at Tasty. Here’s how we envision the conversations would go:
K’s mom: Well this is… um… quaint <<cringe>> Now is this Mandarin or Cantonese cuisine?
K’s dad: Did you know that during the Yuan Dynasty… blah blah blah.
L’s mom: I’m just so happy that I get to sit down with all of you. It really doesn’t matter where we go to eat; the food is not the important thing — it’s the company that you keep. You are all such amazing young adults — I’m so pleased that you found each other.
L: Mom, you do realize that you took a filet mignon out of your purse from Capital Grille and have been eating that instead of the beef with broccoli.
L’s dad: Do they serve beer here?
My mom: OHHHH YOU DISRESPECTFUL CHILDDDDDD WHY YOU BRING US HEREEEEEE, YOU KNOW WE NOT SUPPOSED TO INTERACT WITH THE CHINESEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DISGRAAACCCCEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!
My dad: <<completely silent, trying to avoid conflict>>
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