11:07 p.m. | 2004-11-06 Rebel With A Cause. Kinda. If you�re into vegetables and whatnot. I tend to have a �vegetable tooth� as opposed to a �sweet tooth�. Yes, I do know that it�s an odd thing. Very odd. Yet, there it is. I had a roommate once. While she craved ice cream, I craved green peppers. Irrational, I know. But, that�s me. Live and learn. Anyway, I went grocery shopping today. You know, you�d think it wouldn�t be such a despised chore since I always take a list and only go once a month now. No. Still hate it. Notwithstanding the amount of time I spend comparison shopping and hunting down obscure food items. Still hate it. And, I get weird cravings. Lately, it�s been water chestnuts, lima beans and fresh pineapple. Not rational I�ll admit. Well, and odd. But, for whatever reason, my body does not like junk food. I�ve accepted that and have moved on. On a sidenote, just so you know, I�m a saltaholic, take several medications and am not apt to turn down a margarita. Nor am I likely to be found, or even sighted at a gym. I�m not suggesting that I�m a health freak at all. Quite the contrary. I�m just weird. So, I�m at the grocery store today trying to find canned lima beans. I skipped on the fresh pineapple because I know I only want one slice. And, I�m not gonna pay $5.00 for that when I could get a whole pineapple for much less. Water chestnuts? Not in the canned vegetable aisle, but I knew where to look for those. Lima beans? No. I carefully scanned the canned fruit and vegetable aisle three times over. No lima beans. I noticed in all my scanning that they�re no longer in alphabetical order. That�s new. In fact, canned zucchini came before the canned asparagus. That seems OCD like, but they�ve always put them in order before. However, the store I go to switches stuff up a lot. A lot. That led to this exchange. (Cashier:) Did you find everything okay today? (CI:) No, actually. I couldn�t find lima beans. (Cashier:) Okay. Hey GroceryGuy (I no longer know the PC name for a bagboy, who was male in this case, but I�m guessing that �groceryguy� isn�t PC either. Deal.) can you check the canned vegetable aisle for lima beans? (GG:) Sure. (CI:) Thanks. (GG:) (On the loudspeaker.) Cashier, it�s GG. (Cashier:) (Picking up the phone.) Oh, okay. Thanks. (To me.) GG couldn�t find lima beans either. Sorry. (CI:) It�s okay. This store has a tendency to change what they carry. A lot. (Cashier:) Yeah, they do. It�s really frustrating if it�s somebody�s favorite item. (CI:) Yeah, it is. And, this store often attempts to hide those changes by moving everything around. It�s a valiant ruse, but not that successful. (Cashier:) Yeah. They do have a tendency to be obscurant. And, here I was the one feeling like a geek. Heh. your thoughts? seed flower