Cheerios

My girls know that I only buy cereal that is a good deal. Since it's a fixed price at Sam's club I seldom buy it there.  One day while shopping at Sam's my girls for some odd reason really wanted my to buy a huge double pack box of Cheerios.  I asked them if they even like plain old Cheerios.  They both enthusiastically said "Oh yeah we love them!!!!"   I then fell into the trap of their persistent cries and I stuck it in the cart.  For a few weeks I noticed that the two huge boxes sat unopened while the usual favorites continued to come and go.   When the favorites were close to being gone Emily told me that I needed to go get more cereal  I reminded her that there were still Cheerios to be eaten.   Funny but the same girl who "Loves, loves, loves" Cheerios all the sudden tells me they are so gross.   I calmly informed she and Jane that I will NOT be buying any more cereal until both boxes of Cheerios are totally gone.   After all it was there idea that I buy them.   Reluctantly they started on  the long drudgery road to eat all  the Cheerios.  After a couple of days Bart noticed his cereal was not being replenished and asked me to buy him more.  I simply told him what I said to the girls the I was not going to be buying any more cereal until the Cheerios are gone.  He squinted his face like a little boy and said "But I didn't ask you to buy those Cheerios"  (Life is hard for Bart when he can't eat his trusty old Honey Bunches of Oats for Breakfast).   During the quest it was a nice change when I made waffles, pancakes or oatmeal and my girls would both cheer instead of try to convince me why they should eat cereal instead.   When we were finally on the home stretch with only a few bowls to go Jane was hungry for breakfast but was just not wanting any more Cheerios.  Emily in her best persuasive voice said "Common Jane, you've got to have another bowl, it's almost gone and then mom will go buy us fun cereal"

I suspect nobody will be asking me to buy Cheerios anytime soon