The Gleaners & I

You know that column in Us Weekly, "Celebrities, They're Just Like Us." It's pretty much an ad for whatever the celeb is holding because it's almost always some picture of drinking Starbucks or Red Bull. Well, here's my version!
Someone had to go to the movie star's apartment that was rented for him here in New York to clear out the stuff he left behind. When you and your girlfriend are jet set, you just buy stuff and leave it. So here's what they left. Can you see the stuff in the boxes? By the time I took the picture, it was a bit picked over. Shower to Shower, Listerine, hotel samples, baby wipes. There was some other scandalous stuff, but I'm selling that on ebay for when I'm really broke. Just kidding! I took the Shiseido sunscreen and a bottle of minty conditioner, though I could really use some new toothpaste. I couldn't help myself; it's expensive stuff that would have been tossed otherwise! I swear I'm not turning into one of those freegans, scoring stuff off the street.

In addition to the beauty products in his pad was a beautiful flourless chocolate cake from one of the best bakeries in New York, Bouchon Bakery located in the Time Warner mall. I took my visiting sister there recently at the end of a long Saturday and she thought there wasn't enough selection. I kept my mouth shut and didn't say anything, especially when we ended up going downstairs to the Whole Foods to get some boring dessert bar that she said wasn't that great. Anyway, I had a piece of the cake yesterday and it was like eating a piece of fudgy butter. I only felt a little dirty that I was basically eating the movie star's trash. So what's worse? Consuming junk, or letting good junk go to waste?