Today I bought a packet of butter mints at the supermarket when I went there for lunch. There were hung on a little rack sitting right next to the checkout counter, as if waiting for someone with a weak will and a strong desire to stroll on by and pick them up. Damn you, impulse buy inducing bastards.
When I brought them back to work, they were not as popular as some of the other confectionery treats that I have previously brought back to my desk. The people at work can usually work their way through seven or eight bags of Japanese gummies in a given day if the bowl is left unmonitored. Two boxes of Freihofer cookies I brought back from the Adirondacks magically disappeared with barely a mention. Fizzy candy from Mitsua is often used to get my co-workers hopped up when things desperately need to get done, and those seem to not even hit my desk before they are snapped up. However, the butter mints sat there all lonely for most of the afternoon. I ate almost the whole thing before I tucked it over itself and put it in the back corner of the food drawer at my desk.
Perhaps the previous mobs of co-workers has been protecting me from something. Having all that candy to myself gave me the most intense sugar rush I have had in years. It's really too bad it was a slow day, because I really could have done some good. Instead, I spent four hours bouncing up and down on my office chair.
Down on a smoke break in the middle of the afternoon, I found myself hurtling through the revolving door at the office building, nearly getting both of my legs caught as someone else tried to get through the door at the same time. I told my work spouse that I had completed logging in my time for the remainder of the year (half true). I had two calls with a woman in Atlanta that I had never talked to before, and I think she got the wrong impression of me. I must have looked wild-eyed and crazed, because people were slowly backing away from me. Even now, a decent twelve hours after the gorging took place, I still find myself feeling a bit off in relation to the rest of the world.
I'm going to have to develop some will power. I don't think I can handle too much of this.