From Stu

Stu sent the following comment plus photo:

I'll never forget walking around a supermarket with a hungry Ben.

Be it a packet of "Mr Donut" chocolate-iced-jam-ball doughnuts, or an iced coffee, or later on, a bottle of wild-berry flavored drinking yogurt, Ben would pluck the selected item off the shelf, open the lid and begin to consume the contents whilst trawling the supermarket aisles (and in the event of it being a multiple item selection, such as donuts, he would irresistibly encourage others to join in. I always felt somewhat sneaky, or naughty, but he'd always put on that reassuring, "come-on"-type voice and convince me "It's OK...I do it all the time.")

The said, as yet unpurchased, food item would often have been long consumed by the time we finished the shopping task, and the empty packaging perched carefully on the top of the basket.

I'll never forget the various shocked, bemused and more often than not; indifferent faces at the checkout as he would hand over an empty box/bottle to be scanned, and promptly ask if they had a bin into which he could dispose of the no longer needed packaging item.

I can't wait to split a cheeky 4-pack of "Mr D's" with him again. :)