Grocery Shopping Fun

So, this week I learned that there is something worse than shopping hungry - it is shopping hungry AND angry.

Scene: the inside of a grocery store
Characters:
RB - Rational Brain

EB - Emotional Brain

The twins - pain peaks that resemble a couple of four-year-olds stuck in the basket of the cart

Leslie enters the store.  She marches up to the cart racks, wrestles one from the grip of the others, and charges into the store aisles.

EB, muttering: Can't believe all this- I have so HAD it today!  What did I need now?

RB- You were getting some produce for the possums -

Twins, shrieking - CHOCOLATE!!  We will be quiet and let you shop if we get chocolate!!

EB tosses a six-
pack of Hershey bars in the cart, and starts circling produce, hoping that what she needs will leap into the cart as she stomps around the area.

The twins begin tussling in the cart.  One gets hurt and starts to wail.

EB rubs her head and stares blindly at the leafy greens.  She tosses some kind of something into the basket and heads toward the back of the store.

RB- Good, now you need to pick up-

Twins, interrupting - I'VE GOT A BOO BOO!!  Oh, look!  Oreos!!

EB- tosses Oreos into the cart

RB- Is that a good idea?  I mean, you have all ready got chocolate...

EB- DO YOU WANT TO MESS WITH ME??!?  After the day I have had!  What else did I need?

RB- Um, do we have milk?

EB- I don't know -

Wanders up and down a couple more aisle, throwing random things into the cart, ranting silently.

So, with the twins letting out shrieks every couple of aisle, RB loses track of what she was supposed to be remembering, EB compulsively and defensively purchases anything that catches her eye, and Leslie gets home to open the fridge and find no eggs, and nothing to make for dinner.

But, at least there is chocolate and oreos!