Groceries

In high school I enrolled in a food management class. The class was so serious that we had our own text book. It was not so serious in that we watched episodes of Emeril on block days. I remember one lesson we learned during our first session -- you should eat before you go buy groceries. I did this today when I was at the grocery store. I had a gift cheque worth 500 pesos and I decided to spend it on groceries (is this a sign of growing up?). I walked through the aisles but after eating I had no appetite, making me impervious to the drawing powers of food. For the first five minutes or so I was stumped. The only thing in my basket was bananas. I explored the whole area before I eventually got around to buying cereal (something I took for granted in Taiwan -- its so expensive here!) and a bunch of non-food items, like soap. When I arrived at the check out counter, I had money to spare so I grabbed a snickers bar. My bill registered 500.95php. I like gift cheques.