Hungry
When I get hungry I want food. I don’t mean I want food when it is convenient, I mean I want food NOW. I get angry and upset, I start thinkin' about ways to destroy the world if I don't get fed. It is awful, but it is true.
So we’re shopping and the pain of needing food creeps up from my stomach to my brain. The thought begins to overwhelm me. I know we should get something on the way home but I ask the Cap if its cool if the go to the Rainforest Café now so we can use lil' one's gift certificate (but really it was because it was the closest). He says we better not. I feel a flash of anger but suppress it- I do not want to make a big issue of this and he's right. Besides, I can wait right? So we walk, and walk, and walk some more. The kids get sidetracked and I try to maintain my nice Mommy/Wife mode. Let's go, let's gooooo- I have got to eat.
We make it to the car but instead of stopping at one of the many fast food places nearby, the Cap keeps driving. I know he wants to get home but COME ON. I wanted to eat in the mall, at least let's eat near the mall. I stay silent.
We approach our exit to get home and I suggest we go to the nearest fast food place. He says okay but turns the other direction- he decides it is best to go to the one near our house because it isn't "out of the way"- this one was in the other direction but just one close turn and we'd be there. AGGGSDFdadfsdfawertaewtg~!~!~!
Do I say anything? I shouldn't. I can't help it. WHY??? Why not stop at that one? The Cap laughs off my exasperation and I laugh too but deep down that hunger is growing (along with my temper). I look at the Captain, I wonder why he feels his need to impose his will on something that means so little to him and SO MUCH TO ME. I press on and he is laughing.
He admits the drive was further than he expected and while the boys in the backseat are going nuts, I'm trying hard not to. We're almost there- us along with the 6 other cars already in the drive-thru. Why this location? This particular location is awful- they are slow and aggravating. I didn't want this- this food chain is fine but not this place. We laugh, we wait. We arrive, we get our food, we go home. We avoided catastrophe, I was fed just in time.
The hunger almost got me. I made it 4 hours between meals without dying from starvation. Am I the only one that NEEDS food to stay "normal"?
posted by Krit @ Tuesday, December 20, 2005
4 Comments:
DEFINITELY can relate here. I think Woody's head was almost bitten off a couple of times during moments he made me wait while I was hungry. This was before he knew the culprit (hunger). I really foam at the mouth if I can't get food.
YES! I can relate to this so much. I can't think about anything if I am hungry...I turn into this drooling monster. Curt requires almost no food and no sleep, the man is a modern marvel. I, on the otherhand, require plenty of both and if I don't get them you better watch out!!! :) Good post, I was giggling just thinking about you trying not to lose it.
Mare- do you know that I had a snack in the car but I didn't want it. It was taquitos I had cooked but decided not to finish eating on the way to the mall. At this point they were cold and just not appealing but for as desperate as I thought I was, you would have thought I would have been eating them sooner. I finally did but I wasn't happy about it.
When I was pregnant I ate sometimes 5 meals a day! My body gets in a mode and then I get in a mode- it is a wonder I'm not 200 lbs.
I also scrounge off of others' food. When you're done eating and if there's food left... watch out. I can't help myself. My kids will tell me I can't eat their food because there has been a time or two that I thought they were finished when they weren't. Oops.
Krit, what happened to the more recent posts?
Oh, BTW, Happy New Year!
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