frugality fails me

pumped up from my foray to the gym after class, i decided to hit up shaw's for some natural foods aisle bounty for lunch rather than subject myself to yet another day of hard boiled eggs and blue cheese dressing, rung up by weight, from the school caf.

i shit you not, i spent about 5 min obsessing over a pint of baby tomatoes for $4, or a vine of strawberry tomatoes ON SALE for about a buck less. less tomatoage in that carton, sure - but of a higher quality. and better value.

fast forward to me washing them to accompany my cottage cheese lunch. i had to discard 9 of the 15 tomatoes because they were squishy and rotten. i know i can be a hard sell on tomatoes - one wrinkle, one blemish, and i'm all set, thanks - but these were legitimately rotten. dismayed that my pecuniarily influenced decision had been the wrong one, i tried to enjoy my remaining tomatoes, which were valued at approximately $0.75 each.

i was talking to a classmate i don't know too well, about a serious scientific matter, when i popped a fermented one (the last one! of course!) and tried to hide my expression of horror as its rancid skin exploded in my mouth and a fountain of mouldy goo sprang forth, making me gag. and i had nowhere to spit it. and what could i do, let rotten tomato run down my chin as i tried to gesture, "hey i have a rotten vegetable in here, i need to bail?" plus she probably would have pointed out that it's a fruit anyway.

so i swallowed it. ugh.