grapes 2 March 2010
Where do I get off with having a ‘face’ on me is what I had to ask myself yesterday as I climbed down off the moral high ground. It came after an incident in a supermarket. This involved a sight I had encountered before and, as has become my wont, I shot a daggers at the person involved. But when I thought about it later I realised I should not have. So, here’s what happened. I was selecting some red seedless grapes because I am very partial to them, and find them great on all levels including keeping the old blood sugar up and stanching appetite from time to time (appetite HUGE at mo though and there’s nothing can quell the beast right now). They are the one bit of genetic engineering that I have to admit I could not do without, those seedless lovelies. ANYhow, there was an elderly lady snacking away on another stack of them close by and it was she who got the killer glance. But, she hadn’t opened a packet, thereby depriving another customer of their weight in grapes, she was devoting herself to the loose section of the fruit and it occurred to me afterwards that they are expensive and this might have been her big treat of the day but one she cannot afford right now. So how dare I pass judgement. And it will have been her one of five portions of fruit and veg so it was a healthy activity that she was indulging in.
