Mutual Fudge

I didn't have any particular plan in mind at that moment. I only knew that I had just put my car into reverse and, I was rolling. I didn't know where I was driving, but I did have a sensation of burning hunger for taquitos, the frozen kind that you heat in the microwave for 40 seconds on each side. Minutes later, wind-blown hair and all, I found myself not staring at taquitos through the frosted glass, but rather the guilty pleasures of ice cream. I'm not usually one to eat ice cream, but if there was a beef jerky flavored ice cream, then that would be a different story.

I'm not exactly sure what drew me to that place. I found myself indecisively gazing into my answer. Fudgesicles. It was a mutual self-discovery of ice cream connection between this elderly woman and me. We both spent a good five minutes weighing our options, options that factored in neither sugar nor calories. Basically, if we were going to eat ice cream, we were going to enjoy it in its entirety, and none of that reduced-fat crap they sell.

We couldn't have planned that moment of choice more timely, that elderly woman and I, for we simultaneously gave the freezer door a tug and pulled out our pickings with pride.

I methodically purchased my treasure, and half-way to my car, I had already torn my box open and produced this marvel. I was finishing my third fudgesicle for the day as I walked up the stairs to my room.

Keep in mind it was well past three o'clock in the afternoon, and I hadn't eaten anything yet, though, now that I think about it, I wouldn't have minded a taquito either, though the instantaneous satisfaction would have been a frozen one.

This story holds no significance in your life and is of little value to the decisions you will make in the future, but if, one day, you do happen to find yourself dazed in front of the ice cream aisle, make sure that you take the time to enjoy and observe your own process of selection, for you might happen to find out a lot about your reasoning skills in absurd guilty pleasures and realize that those which may seem silly are, in fact, the most important for your sanity.