Addicted And Paying The Price
[Scene: Late Afternoon, a co-worker’s office] I enter, holding a tiny plastic cup of something that looks at first glance like it’s chocolate pudding, with a bit of whipped cream on top…
Me (Holding out cup): I just bought this in the cafeteria. If it was a cup of pudding, it would cost me about 75 cents. But being that its mousse, it cost me two bucks fifty. But since it’s late, and I need my chocolate fix, I have to pay up.
A Co-Worker: Is that really mousse?
Me (shrugging): I reckon. I don’t know. What’s mousse?
A Co-Worker: It looks like mousse.
Me: So what is mousse?
A Co-Worker: It has egg white in it, and they whip it up a lot more. Yeah…that looks like mousse all right.
Me: So I’m paying a lot more for less, since most of what’s in this is air.
A Co-Worker: Yeah. Pretty much. But mousse is good.
Me: Yes. Yes it is.
