Sunday, September 27, 2009

Frosted Flakes

I am so pissed.
But before I get to that let me explain my situation. I am currently recovering from Typhoid and am on a very restricted diet. Basically I can’t eat anything dairy or raw, everything has to be made with boiled purified water or cooked thoroughly. It hasn’t really been hard picking and choosing what I can eat, cheese and milk have never really appealed to me, but what I do miss are fruit and salads.
Anyways, so here I am waiting at breakfast this morning along with my table to get in line. While we are waiting I notice the food, the end of the line there were 2 glorious serving bowls of…FROSTED FLAKES. I was so excited!! This kind of food was a rarity and had only been served once before, and even though I couldn’t eat my cereal with milk, I used coffee and it was still pretty good. I think you can imagine my giddiness. While we were waiting to be called, the girls at my table all left one by one to serve themselves cereal. Except for me. I have a problem with people who don’t wait their turn. I think it’s disrespectful and impolite. But this time it didn’t really bother me for I had something to look forward to. In a very short time I would be able to eat my Frosted Flakes too!
When we finally got called, I went through the whole line empty handed (except for my coffee which would be poured into my cereal and a piece of bread) for I was awaiting the grand prize. By the time I got to my precious cereal, I noticed that it was diminishing quickly, but I didn’t really worry about it. Until I saw several different girls cut in front of me and the girl in front of me to serve themselves cereal. And oh man, did these girls go out, they didn’t just serve themselves one cup of cereal, but two, even though they had just served themselves before we were even called to go join the line. I wanted to say something so badly. But mild-mannered Briana would never do such a thing. Needless to say by the time I got to the cereal, I was only able to collect the mere crumbs from the bottom of the bowl, about 1/4 of a cup.
So then I thought (being the optimist I am) maybe they had more and could refill. Instead the cafeteria lady brought out 2 large bowls of this cereal made of assorted toasted seeds (which by the way I am prohibited to eat.) I was so pissed. Here I am with 2 cups of coffee and frosted flakes crumbs. After 30 seconds of eating that, I turned to my piece of bread, only to discover it was filled with cheese.
Why do people have to be so selfish? Why can’t they just wait their turn? Do they know how to be considerate? I thought these were things you learned in kindergarten. Maybe it’s childish and immature for me to complain about this, but frankly I do not care. I know I need to work on my patience, but where do you draw the line? I was starving this morning.

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