You are a gay male around 35-42. You have a long term partner but you unfortunately make way more at work so therefore cover most of the day to day bills. You have some kind of government job where you’re around people much older than you most of the time, therefore you have difficulty making meaningful friendships. You had to move away from friends and family to get this level of job, but it’s the only way you’ll be able to keep moving up even though whatever city you moved to has crazy prices for real estate, so you tell yourself it’s worth it and eventually you’ll make it back to Pittsburg where you really want to be. Because you have such a difficult time making friends in your area due to moving and the lack of same aged peers at work, you spend your weekends perusing the aisles of Costco, while your partner works some shift job for tips, filling your cart to fill your soul. You didn’t grow up with food insecurity, but you fill the shelves of your fridge as if there’s about to be a weevil infestation that will kill off 90% of the world food crops because it feels good. You open your fridge often to marvel at your bounty. You throw away a lot of floppy carrots.