They had a whole stupid argument about… Cheese. It went from small arguing to actual conflict.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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One time I was at a specialty beer and cheese shop and I saw this guy pushing a cart alone with two children. He generally looked beaten down and glum. The kids are rambunctious, he’s exhausted, wife is missing but obviously in the store with them.
He is browsing the cases, killing time waiting for his wife to come back. He grabs a small block of cheese, looks interested it and adds it to the cart.
A few minutes later, the wife returns and immediately spots the cheese block. She picks it up and screams “$10? For a block of cheese you haven’t even TRIED yet? Absolutely not.”
Then she hurled it back in the case and stomped off while he sullenly followed her with the cart and kids
Look, cheese is serious eats. And business.
And atrocity against vulnerable individuals.
So this was part of a much bigger discussion and turned out in reality to be mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues. But on the tail end of an argument, y'know when you're starting to talk nice again and resolve things, I said something like it's okay, sometimes you're just a sad pancake. She burst into tears because she wanted to be a waffle. Hormones and mental health are wild, y'all.
mostly due to some unaddressed mental health issues.
I expect all the stories to be this. Why am I in this thread??
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