[Sca-cooks] shopping shyness?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Kathleen A Roberts:
>so there we were, each in the checkout line with a cart full of 
>chicken thighs.  this cute little boy looks at us, eyes wide.  he 
>tugs on his mom's blouse and says in that loud clear voice that only 
>children-about-to-embarrass-someone have and said.....
>
>"Momma!   They must have millenium fever!"
>
>we were hysterical, momma was mortified, and the kid turned his 
>attention back  to his candybar.

See, now, if it had been me, I would have tried very hard -- harder 
than you could imagine -- not to say, "Oh, no. It's for our pet 
piranhas, son..." I _might_ even have succeeded.

Adamantius

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"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If they have no bread, you have to say, let them eat 
brioche."
	-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques 
Rousseau, "Confessions", pub 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
	-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04