Thread by @Respexy

I am a very picky eater and have inattentive type ADHD. Sometimes this means that I get a craving for a food, attempt to acquire the food, do not pay enough attention, and end up with a food that is Wrong and that I will not eat.

Today I stopped at the further-away grocery store and saw some of those Italian bakery style cookies. The oval ones where one half has sprinkles. I bought a pack. Later, when I was really excited to eat them, I realized they were jelly sandwiches.

I hate jelly. I hate jelly donuts, jelly cookies, and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Jelly is the ruiner of desserts. Jelly apologists do not @ me.

What I REALLY wanted to do was go on Instacart and order a new set of cookies delivered to me. But striking Instacart workers have asked consumers to #DeleteInstacart. So I drove myself to TWO closer grocery stores looking for the cookies that I actually wanted.

Neither of the closer stores had the cookies, and I wasn't willing to drive all the way back to the further one. So I loaded up on a bunch of other sweets. But now I feel like crying because I'm so mad at myself for buying the wrong cookies.

I can't even pawn these jelly cookies off on my husband! He has Celiac Disease! I will bring them to my friend group's Halloween get-together in two weeks, I guess.

Now I am sitting here with my sad Replacement Sweets, trying to reframe my irritation at Wrong Cookie Buying Past Me into self-satisfaction at not having crossed the Instacart picket line.