The chicken died for no damn reason. 

I was at the grocery store yesterday picking up some things for dinner.

Walking down the soda aisle when I saw something that made me stop dead in my tracks.

Now look, I'm no tree hugger. I drive a big truck. I eat meat. I am very clear on my pronoun.

But this? This pissed me off.

Some bird gave its life so that it could sit on a grocery store shelf and rot.

Just because the person who grabbed it was too damn lazy to walk it back to where they found it.

It's one thing to grab a bag of chips and decide you don't want it. Put it wherever. Someone will find it and put it back.

But a hot chicken? A cold item from the freezer section? That stuff has a shelf life measured in hours, not days.

The second it leaves that heated case or that refrigerator, the clock is ticking. And once it's been sitting at room temperature next to a bunch of soda bottles? It's garbage.

I grabbed the chicken and took it up to the manager. Told him what happened. He thanked me and tossed it in the trash.

What a waste.

I'm not asking people to be saints. I'm just asking them to have enough common sense and basic decency to not ruin food because they're too lazy to walk 30 extra feet.

Is that too much to ask? What do you think?

Enjoy your Sunday!

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