Why it's generally always better to not be a loser and do everything by yourself

Diving with another person as opposed to diving alone not only has the benefit of one person being a lookout while the other grabs the goods, but also, since we go by foot or bus, going with another person means that we can carry twice as much as I could alone. This is good, because I often get excited and go a little bite overboard. (See the daikon radishes a few posts down. It's been a week and I still have two to use up.)


This time, however, I think that I went overboard with something that I'll actually eat. Bagels! We brought home 6 packs of regular sized bagels and 3 bags of mini-bagels. Some are plain, some are cinnamon raisin and there's one pack of blueberry, which are bound to be gone soon because I can't stop eating them.

Also, there are 6 packs of organic "Baby Italian-style" lettuce, 4 little bags of snap peas, 2 packs of strawberries, 2 pre-made "Caribbean chicken" salad packages, some mushrooms and some avocados. The one bag of pre-seasoned almonds went right back into the trash, as we noticed the expiration date was 06/07. As in almost a year ago! I opened them before I threw them away, and they smelled fine, but we didn't really feel like it was worth it tto take that chance.

Also had my first gross-out dumpster experience in this trip. Apparently the trash bags hadn't been tied totally shut, and I managed to get what I assumed was chicken teriyaki sauce all over one of my legs. Plus when I was moving one of the trash bags around I noticed it felt warm, and contained what I assumed to be chicken wings or something of the sort. I suppose that this wouldn't be too disgusting to most people, but it's the closest I've been to dead animal parts in a long time. I shudder to think that people actually put that stuff in their mouths. ew.