will love for food

one of the downside of working the night shift(aside from a disrupted body clock and an interrupted social life) is missing out on an officemate's birthday treat. for some people, it's no big deal, but for me, free food may not be a life-changing event but it is edible (an dhopefully, delicious)and more importantly, it costs nothing.
pitying our night-shift bound state, most of my teammates would usually leave a box of pizza and a gallon of ice cream in the refrigerator.and in all those times that someone leaves food for us in the refrigerator, the food mysteriously disappears. it was funny at first, especially hearing my other teammates talk about how they also "stole" food from the ref that was intended for another team.one of them even shoved half a slice of pizza to hide the deed. it's funny the first time.so we learn our lessons and start labeling our food.previously, one of us had a barbecue, left it in the ref with his name on the label.the next day, the stick, styrofoam container and even the label were still there.the barbecue was not. the second time our food was missing, it was a little less amusing, especially if this time, there were two cans of ice cream.this time, it was just annoying.so when i went to the pantry, i made a big fuss of looking for the ice cream and making comments in a loud voice hoping the culprits/suspects (a.k.a. the other group) would hear.
one of my teammate says, it's no big deal, it's just ice cream, we can buy them ourselves.i told him that wasn't the point.the point is, it's not right to take what's not yours(isn't this one of those things you're supposed to learn in kindergarten?).besides, this isn't the first time this happened and stealing is stealing no matter how small the item you take.well, at least they were decent enough to hide the empty ice cream containers because when we peeked at the trash, it was already empty.
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i have been gastronomically deprived since saturday.well, aside from meals at home, the rest of the food that i've had during the past few days is a disappointment.last saturday, i was looking forward to our lunch buffet in dive and trek so when we made a stop-over in dencio's in tagaytay, i only ordered a scoop of ice cream with four pieces of turon because i had a vision of a table full of delicious food.
when we got there, i was half-right.there was a table, there was food, but it was debatable if it was delicious and it definitely did not fill the table.there were only four viands,all of which have gone cold.the combination was unusual - pinakbet, sinigang na taho, inihaw na tilapia and fried chicken.even the banana tasted like paper.
for dinner, we went to sanctuario in tagaytay.the interiors of the place was impressive.everything else wasn't.when we got there at 8, we were told our food would arrive in 35 minutes.we started eating after two hours.well, most of us.apparently, the waiters missed taking one of our orders.the dish we ordered which was supposedly their specialty (you'd think we should've taken a hint with pasta bulalo) was like the banana i had for lunch - bland, bland, bland.
being hungry makes me cross and whiny.wouldn't you be, if you're only 86.2 lbs?so if anyone wants to save me from malnourishment and underweight-ness(if there is such a word), i will not say no a free meal.instead, i will love you for the rest of my life(or at least as long as i can taste the food):)