• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Funny, I just told this story on a forum elsewhere and this totally reminds me of it:

    As an activitst youth in the 1990s, I was in our what was, in retrospect, very silly Bloomington Peace and Justice Center and someone I knew was eating granola out of a bag and offered me some. I tried it and it tasted like soap, so I spat it out.

    I told him that and he said, “I found it in a dumpster, so I washed it before I ate it.”

    Bear in mind that this wasn’t a guy that had any reason to be eating out of dumpsters. He was either a college student or a college dropout, probably the latter. This was a “I’m not participating in society, man!” sort of thing.