DarkSpear

I hate eat-all-you-cans, mainly because the prospect of having bottomless eats can be daunting for my plans to lose weight.
Especially if I’m on the losing end of the weight-loss war and would
like to win a small battle every now and then. So I try to avoid
occasions that entail eating lots, making up excuses about saving an
obscure country in Africa from the machinations of a tyrant or
something like that. Whatever.

But it was my grandfather’s birthday last Sunday, and despite my
protestations, I had to show up and wage another battle of wills
against the buffet table.

So after making niceties with my relatives, I grab a plate and head
off to the buffet table. The buffet table stares at me menacingly, and
taunts me with cries of “You will never be able to resist my charms,
you weak human glutton!”
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