I found the chicken! Photo courtesy of: David Castillo Dominici

In my quest for chicken, I grew HUNGRY, very hungry.

Since last night I’ve been craving rotisserie chicken, but it wasn’t until today that I had the chance to go get some from the grocery store around the corner from my house.

Mind you, I planned my dinner at work and knew that I was going to be in and out of the store and into my home to eat. Little did I knew… it didn’t happen that way.

I passed the first grocery store and I remember thinking, “I’ll go to the one next to my house”. I got there and there were NO rotisserie chicken; there was fried… lots, and lots of fried chicken but no rotisserie chicken. When I asked how long until the chicken was ready and to my surprise… it was going to take 30 minutes.

I tried to wait, but I found myself buying cookies… COOKIES!! So I ran out of the store to another to try to get what I wanted. Second store and what do you think happened? Well if you guessed no chicken, you are right. I didn’t even ask how long since the chicken in the machine looked like they just put it there.

So here I am, getting hungrier and being bombarded by big Yellow Arches, jumbo cupcakes – yes you read right, JUMBO cupcakes- and no chicken. I was getting so desperate and hungry.

I decided to stop by Pollo Tropical or Boston Market, after all they had chicken what I wanted but both places the lines of cars were so ridiculous that I kept driving. Then when I was about to stop by Burger King I remembered that there was another grocery store closed by.

I went into the store starving and hoping to find rotisserie chicken… When I walked into the deli it was like a vision… No chicken on the heating racks, or in the rotisserie machine. For a second or two I panicked; but then I saw the lady putting the chicken on top of the counter and I felt so much relief. I took the chicken and went home.

Granted when I got home I was so hungry that I wanted to eat the whole chicken – I didn’t!-. Even though I found the chicken, this teaches me that I MUST BE PREPARED at all times.

What if I didn’t find chicken? What was I going to do? Probably stop by a fast food restaurant and buy food something that I’m trying to avoid at all cost. Today I was fortuntate, but I must take this lesson for the future!