Everyone knows how unhealthy and bad, junk food is for you, but it is difficult to resist that wonderfully satisfying crunch, that blast of salt, and the pleasing taste of fat, that it provides. The millions of dollars those mega-food corporations spend to develop an addicting taste of chips, is almost impossible for our fragile willpower to resist. I confess, I am weak and a sinner.
Some time ago a friend gave us a “chip clip” to close those unfinished bags of chips. It was a novelty clip in the form of a friendly smiling cow. It was cute and I liked it, until the first time I opened the clip. Upon doing so, a loud obnoxious mooing sound began emanating from the cow. It was a loud and horrible sound.
I sometimes quietly try to sneak a handful of chips out of an open bag of junk food without my wife finding out. I usually take it to another room so she won’t hear the overly-loud crinkle of the bag when I open it. Even when I try to open it as quietly as I can, I rarely succeed in getting a handful of chips without her finding out.
With this obnoxiously loud cow clip, sneaking a snack has become impossible. Knowing that, while still tempted, I often restrain myself, because I will certainly be found out. The other day, I found the above bag with just very few chips left in it, and I thought it would be the decent thing to do, just to get rid of those chips so we could throw away the bag and get it out of the kitchen, but I saw the cow clip, and that forced me to pass up the temptation.
Obviously, I have mixed feelings about the cow clip, my good angels appreciate its goal, but my bad angels hate it.
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