The great pudding crisis

People that know me personally know that I likes me some pudding -- especially tapioca. I've eaten it straight from the cup sans spoon. I've eaten entire batches of it in the "from-the-box" form. Of course, being that I don't work at home, my pudding needs to be portable. The best choice for portable pudding is the venerable pudding cup that I grew up with. The logical choice to purchase pudding cups is where the majority of my shopping is done. Common sense would tell you that I shop at Target or Super Target for the bulk of my grocery needs.

As the pudding supply dwindled on the homefront, I wrote a note to myself reminding me to stop off at Target and re-stock the lunchbox cabinet in the kitchen. This is where things went wrong. Monday, as I enjoyed a rain-soaked day off from work, I ventured to Super Target to grab some grocery items and, of course, a gross of pudding. The grocery shopping went smooth being that I was in the store before noon and my only obstacles were trophy housewives wearing workout pants and dragging their kids around as they bought pre-packaged meals because time as housewife obviously doesn't permit cooking one actual meal per day.

My cart was half-full and my list was nearly scratched out. Curiously, though, the one item still visible on my list was pudding. At this point I would have gladly settled for plain old vanilla pudding cups of any brand. It seemed as I combed the aisles of the grocery side of the store for the second time that pudding cups had vanished. Maybe Target doesn't see the value in a delicious and healthy treat suitable for all ages. Maybe Americans don't consume pudding cups in the quantity that they once did. Maybe this means I'll have to -- gasp -- drive down the road to Super Wal-Mart and trudge through the mindless knuckle-draggers all in the name of acquiring pudding cups.

Have I missed the likely hidden stash of pudding cups at Target? Do people eat pudding cups nowadays? Am I in the minority here in my fondness of pudding cups?

My likes and dislikes

People always walk up to me and ask, out of the blue, what are some of your likes and dislikes.

Well, in my never-ending effort of being a kinder and more open person, I will go ahead and clue y'all in on some of those very items.

First, the likes...
Tapioca pudding
cheap shoes sans puffy tongues
a mid-week day off
perfectly salted warm yellow corn tortilla chips
tacos
Mary Lucia
post-it notes
Coca-Cola

Now, the dislikes
'reality' shows
24-hour cable news channels
cold water found in dirty pans
Sean Hannity
golf on TV
tennis on TV
asshole teenagers
Wal-Mart

What are some of your likes or dislikes? Do tell, this curious guy wants to know and so does the rest of the modern world.