Back when I worked at The Office, a steady line of people paraded past my cubicle everyday on the way to the vending machine for their 3 o’clock sugar fix. Sometimes the line for M&Ms was longer than the line at the DMV. Two hours after lunch everyone’s blood sugar dipped, and we still had two more hours until 5PM freedom. We needed something to keep us awake.
A snack time chorus of Pop! Pop! Pop! echoed through the bullpen as people snapped open their soda cans. The crinkle and rustle of wrappers followed, punctuated by the crunch, crunch of the few who preferred salty over sweet.
But not once did any of my co-workers ask me share. No one ever cried or threw a fit or stomped their feet because they wanted a package of little chocolate donuts too. I never told anyone that they couldn’t have sweets that close to dinner or that one Reese’s Peanut Butter cup a day was enough. I never said to any of them, “Well, if you’d eaten your chicken nuggets when it was lunchtime you wouldn’t be hungry now.” After consuming junk food and red dye, none of my office mates ever climbed on their desks and jumped off or tried to ride their ergonomic chairs through the parking lot.
But now if I put one Hershey’s Miniature in my mouth THEY know. They come running and surround me, begging for candy like a pack of dogs in a bacon factory. If I give in, they run wild in a sugar-filled rage until bedtime. And so I hide. Eating my chocolate in secret like an addict trying to conceal her habit.
I would love to say it gets better when they get older, and for one of my kids who doesn’t like chocolate * I am certain he was switched at birth except he looks like me lol* . Been there, done that , read some books while I hid.
Hah! So very true 🙂
The part about red dye… I have a very real image of my mind of former co-workers who could easily have been coerced into jumping off their desks! Ha!! I wonder if red dye was the culprit 🙂
Love it. I’m now picturing all my co-workers begging me to share, throwing hissy fits, and getting the news that they really shouldn’t have the big bag of chips cause it goes straight to their hips. This would make the work day more fun if they acted like that!
Hahaha, I will shove entire pieces of candy into my mouth, just to hide them. I have also been known to steal candy from my children’s stashes! Shhhhhhh!
Thanks for the giggles and love the meme.
If it’s not the kids, it’s the dogs.