marcicat | I don’t think that word means what you think it means

*Got the August coupon push on my grocery app, and there’s a coupon for Annie’s mac & cheese! Oh happy day! (Also my local grocery store is now carrying the Parmesan Peace Pasta, so really, a victory all around.)

*And I got the notification of new coupons while I was at work, so of course I checked right away, and then I had to explain why I was so excited.

*This led to a somewhat hilarious discussion with one coworker, who told me that she thinks of homemade mac and cheese as one of her “quick and easy” meals. Once I figured out she meant “from scratch,” rather than “I made it from the box and didn’t just eat the Panera At Home pre-made version,” I tried in the most tactful and friendly way to explain that we perhaps had different thresholds for “quick and easy.”

*Finally I said that my “quick and easy” dinner is potato chips. From the bag. (Seriously, I’ve been eating food ALL DAY by the time dinner comes. I really need to prepare and eat MORE FOOD?)

*I sort of thought she got it at that point, so I made a joke about not needing to wash any dishes.

*And she said she COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD! Why, just the night before, she’d told her husband she didn’t want to wash any dishes, so he cooked burgers on the grill!

*It’s like we were both talking to each other, but not having the same conversation at all.

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