How many cookies make a guilty conscience
By p1kef1sh
@p1kef1sh (45681)
April 15, 2008 11:39am CST
I am a fairly easy going sort of chap who may have put on a few pounds over the past decade or so. As many of you know I am on a bit of a belt tightening drive at the moment and not spending money on superfluous food that we don't' need to eat. So imagine my horror at opening the cupboard and finding a pack of chocolate chip cookies there. Everyone in this house understands that we are not wasting our money on such fripperies so what were they doing there. I lost no time in interrogating those present in the house. No one has admitted to this heinous crime. I have done what is necessary to remove this temptation and eaten them myself. That will cause the culprit to re-think their actions. It was an act of huge self sacrifice, but it had to be done. Ah. Just remembered something. I may have, quite inadvertently you understand, slipped them in the shopping trolley myself just before we started the cutback. Now, anyone might have made this kind of mistake.........er........couldn't they? Have you?
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Apr 08
No. Never. Not a chance. I am incapable of making mistakes. Now pass over the cookie box, and you'd better have left me some crumbs!
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@sparkofinsanity (20471)
• Regina, Saskatchewan
15 Apr 08
And I have shares in the London Bridge in Texas. Wanna buy in? LOL
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@nannacroc (4049)
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15 Apr 08
It's an easy mistake to make. It's not cookis with me though it's chocolate biscuits. I believe someone follows me and adds them to my shopping. Maybe there are shopping fairies or gremlins that put things in our baskets without our knowledge. I'm so glad you were able to resolve the situation in the correct manner.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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15 Apr 08
I am sue that there are little goblins or sprites that target us as we enter the shop and then throw things into our baskets willy nilly. Magazines, CDs, chocolate, socks (!) (I have more pairs of black socks than is decent for any man, but still I get odd ones.), cookies and etc. I think that I did do what was right on this occasion. Removed those tempting cookies out of harms' way.
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@dorypanda (1601)
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18 Apr 08
Mr.Panda has a different theory as to why you end up with three socks even when you put four in. His theory is that the socks have a fight while they're in the washing machine (you never know what's been going on in your sock draw, Mrs. Socky wocky could have been having an affair with Mr.Black Sock etc) and the other three socks gang up on that one and destroy it and it ends up as the bits of fluff you find round the edge of the drum. :)
@nannacroc (4049)
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15 Apr 08
You did do the right thing, I know becaue it is exactly waht I would have done.
The reason you have odd socks is because of the sock gremlin that comes with every washing machine. they never wear a matching pair. Have you noticed how you can put three pairs in the wash and only two and a half pairs come out. The sock gremlins are never seen but have lived in washing machines and stolen odd socks since the first machine was invented.
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@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
15 Apr 08
Hey its an honest mistake anyone could have made. Very strong of you to eat them all to save everyone in the house of the temptation.
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@sid556 (30960)
• United States
16 Apr 08
Hey...I thought you were amongst the missing. Well I guess you got found. ya...I know all about mysterious cookies and chips finding their way to my cupboards. Dieting sucks. I have always been underweight and could eat anything and everything and not put on weight. I used to try to gain weight and could not. Even after 4 kids, still underweight. A few years back, i got sick. The meds they gave me, I was told would cause me to gain a "few" pounds. The doctor said...looks like you could use it anyway. At first it was great until a few pounds turned into more like 40+. It has been a nitemare trying to get rid of this flub. Got the weight of and now it's the belly flub...yuk!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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16 Apr 08
I am fully cogniscent of a little extra around my tummy. Hard to shift I am afraid. But I am envious of your ability nor to put weight on by regular eating. I was like that whilst I exercised. But the minute I stopped. Wham. On it went. The way that the posts are mounting up, you'll see it soon.
@CoupleinLove (31)
• United States
15 Apr 08
im always theifin the cookies the wife makes and she gets mad as a hornet when she catches me to. but if u are the same dude from the bra discusin then i would be watchin my figure if i were u.
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@cinderella2007 (2662)
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15 Apr 08
He is the dude in the bra discussion, he kindly volunteered I heard!!
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@cinderella2007 (2662)
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15 Apr 08
I'd be scared p1ke, its had 38 responses so far, who knows by the end of the week you could have a new avatar lol 
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@cinderella2007 (2662)
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15 Apr 08
If I was you p1ke, I would have eaten the cookies myself. We should really cut back on 'unneeded food' but they just seem to shout out my name. Its like that Kelloggs advert where their trolleys crash together because he has the cereal and she has the milk!! lol
Since its just me that does the shopping, I know what goes in the trolley so nothing gets slippes in...unless some randon customer puts it in my trolley by mistake.
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@cinderella2007 (2662)
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15 Apr 08
I have just noticed a discussion about a cookie diet if your interested lol
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@dorypanda (1601)
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18 Apr 08
I totally understand how that happens you know. I'll be walking along down near the chocolate isle in Tesco and the chocolat jumps into my trolly, obviously I don't realise this until I get home and by then it's far too late to take it back so I HAVE to eat it. :) If Mr.Panda's with me biscuits tend to jump into the trolly too. Funny that.
@pumpkinjam (8540)
• United Kingdom
15 Apr 08
I think many of us may have made similar mistakes. There have been a few times when custard creams have slipped into my shopping but only when we've not had to do much shopping. What brand were your cookies? I justify all my non-essential expenses by purchasing Tesco Value brand of that sort of thing. I am actually quite fond of Tesco Value custard creams and chocolate.
I think you may be forgiven just this once. You had to eat all of those cookies to remove such temptations in the future, I believe you said yourself that what is not there in the beginning, can not be had.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
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15 Apr 08
They were Maryland Cookies (which if truth be known are a little too sweet for me). But I am glad to know that I am not alone in finding things that shouldn't be there. Thank you for your forgiveness too. In my old office I used to have a four drawer filing cabinet. The top drawer was full of tea, coffee, bourbons and custard creams. Well, you never know when someone might drop by.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
15 Apr 08
I recently lost too much weight, but now I'm heading back to being a higher weight than I like. So, I don't keep any tempting foods in the house. I usually do well when I first buy the tempting food, but then I will let myself get too hungry one day and "binge" and eat the whole package. So, I don't even think to buy that stuff. Or, I go out and buy individual cookies or a small package from the convenience store. But, it's hard when you have other people that want to eat the food when you don't.
@recycledgoth (9894)
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16 Apr 08
Hey, anyone can make a mistake and after all, think of the unnecessary guilt and trauma you have saved the culprit :-)
@suehan1 (4344)
• Australia
16 Apr 08
well p1ke i figure a packet would warrant a guilty concious.your poor family being interrogated and you being the fiend.naughty,naughty boy.i would not get away with such a crime as i am the sole shopper,so those cookies in the cupboard i am entirely to blame,but what a way to go,yum.cheers sue
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Apr 08
Of course you had to remove the temptations at great sacrifice to yourself too I might add and you just happen to have put them in the cart by mistake of course. did you remember to remove any tell tale crumbs from your clothes? Yeah anyone could make an error like that,uh huh even me.It was scottish shortbreads in my case and they just sort of fell into my cart.darn shelves, stuff always falling off of them and somehow getting into my cart my son says oh yeah since when and I very sweetly say since I said so. He grins and walks of eating a scottish shortbread.lol
@ruby222 (4847)
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16 Apr 08
I would hold up my hands readily...there would be no doubt whatsoever in who had eaten the cookies in this house.
Im partial to all biscuits...my favourites are garibali,shortcake,rich tea,chocolate digestive....no hang on a mo..easier to talk about biscuits that im not too fond of.....alas there aren`t many...
Seeing as guilt is supposed to be a totally useless emotion ..I would be wasting my energy in feeling any!!
But im sorry ..I never feel guilty..to say that i enjoyed them..yes...
When the children were at home I used to have to have hidey holes...for my absolute favourites...but lol now I can pop them in the cupboard and still feel totally secure.
One tip..dont do as I do..and eat them while typing..
@creative_genius (992)
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15 Apr 08
Oh my, well I never make such mistakes- are there any cookies left for me as I am mighty hungry after about reading about your situation. I think you did the right thing though!
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@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
15 Apr 08
Am I still welcome at your discussions...LOL. If not, I would come anyway. :)
I have done that same thing with my ice cream stash. I buy and eat it before anyone ever knew it was there...
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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16 Apr 08
Skinny, you are always welcome to anything that I do. Very soon you will be instrumental in adding to my underwear drawer, we can have no secrets. The ice cream stash! OMG. I need to hide the ice cream stash. But where? Just have to eat it all instead. Thanks Skinny. That was a close run thing.
@gemini_rose (16264)
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15 Apr 08
It is so terrible how these cute, sweet little treats seem to find their way into our shopping trollies when they are supposed to be banned, but you showed them who was boss didn't you!!! I love choccie chip cookies, I would have helped you sort them out! I have to buy these sorts of fripperies as I have kids in the house and I could not deny them, but I buy all the stuff that I will not touch and then that way we do not eat too many, plus I buy enough for a week and if they eat them all before the week is up I refuse to buy anymore, they just have to go without.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
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15 Apr 08
I certainly did show them who the boss is around here. I would brook no protest as I resolutely scoffed hem all and washed them down with a large mug that has printed on it "Whose the Daddy". That taught them. There will be no more this week in this house I can tell you. I admire your own fortitude. That way they learn to ration them across the week.
