Yesterday I was at Trader Joe's (natural/organic/speciality foods grocery store) waiting in line to check out. The lady in front of me had two young girls and the girls kept trying to get their mom to buy them some chocolate bars. The mom kept telling them no, saying that they wouldn't like those candy bars because they're natural. One daughter asked, "What's that mean?" The mom replied, "That means they're healthy." The children were upset and called their mom mean and that was that. Now, it's not the typical children begging for candy at the checkout counter scenario that bothers me....it's the stupidity of their mom.

1.) We can infer by her argument that she believes that if something is healthy, then her children will not like it.
2.) We can infer by #1 that if they did not dislike healthy food already, they are learning that they should.
3.) Natural or organic chocolate does not taste any different than regular chocolate. The only thing it means is that the cocoa beans and other ingredients used were not bombed with pesticides and ingredients added do not have names like polyeurethane silicone extract. The only different tasting chocolate would be the dark ones with a high precentage of cocoa, which is irrelevant because the children picked out milk chocolate bars.
4.) Her statement that the natural chocolate bars were healthy is erroneous. They may be health-ier because they're natural, but to just say they're healthy implies that her children can eat 25 natural chocolate bars and still be fit and trim.

I really hate it when I see stupid people trying to turn their perfectly normal children into an exact copy of themselves.

Speaking of ridiculous, what's up with the whole McDonald's strip search thing??? So, I watched this thing on PrimeTime and was amazed! I'm not quite sure David Stewart should get more than a slap on the wrist. I mean, he wasn't the one who actually sexually abused the employee(s) and he wasn't the idiot employee(s) who complied either. If anything, he revealed how stupid and twisted seemingly normal people can be. First of all, the girl was an idiot or, maybe, has some serious mental issues. Who in their right mind would strip naked for their boss if he/she told them to unless there was a gun involved? Especially if your boss is wearing a cap with the golden arches on it. Who would then do jumping jacks naked without questioning the validity of what was going on? Who would not scream for help in such a situation when there was a restaurant full of people a few feet away? But worst of all, who would submit to a sexual act because some guy on the phone claiming to be a cop told your boss' boyfriend to do it to you? Who could possibly be that stupid??? Well, apparently this girl and several others who did whatever Stewart told them to do over the phone. I think these employees need psychiatric help and the managers and their boyfriends should be sent to jail. Above all, if you're that dumb...I don't know what to tell ya, except you're gonna have a hard time getting through the rest of your life.

Oh, so I went to the doctor last week for my bloating and she thinks it's irritable bowel syndrome, which basically means there's nothing I can do except MAYBE monitor the most offensive foods, whichever those may be. yay!

Random thought. Who's more annoying than neurotic Susan (Teri Hatcher) on Desperate Housewives? She gets worse with each episode. I can't believe it took Mike this long to dump her. After Desperate Housewives I watched another of my favorite shows, Grey's Anatomy. I really wish Meredith would stop professing her feelings to Derek. Grow some dignity and move on. He sure has.

BTW, why did that female Iraqi suicide bomber admit to trying to blow herself up? Just wondering...