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Just thought I would share a funny story about stupid stuff friends do that brightens your day.

This weekend I'm going camping with 4 of my guy friends and we went last night to do all our grocery shopping. Only one of them know about my IBS, although the others know that I have a "tummy problem". These guys are also really "manly" men too - all their houses have car parts stored around the yards and they spend a lot of there time talking about cars and drinking beer.

So as we were shopping, they were tossing all this good food in the cart (steaks, eggs, potato chips). Meanwhile, I'm tossing in my fat-free crackers and turkey hotdogs.

We get to the frozen isle and they're tossing in hamburgers, while I'm over at the veggie-burgers trying to find a cheap good kind. Suddenly, all of them come over and started peering at the veggie-burgers too. And then, without even consulting each other, one of them starts commenting on how the onion veggie burger looks good, or maybe the garlic veggie burger would be nice. I was expecting them to be joking or harassing me about the veggie burgers.. but they were dead serious. They each picked out one that they thought they would like and plopped them in the cart. They still had their regular burgers but just the fact that they didn't want me to be an odd-duck with my food brightened up my whole week.

I am definately going to get pictures of these guys getting their first taste of their veggie burgers - will be a very funny site.

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- Jennifer

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