Female Inflation

Being the gum connoisseur that I am and blueberry being my favorite flavor, when Malabar came out with a "new, exciting flavor: a burst of blueberry in ever bite", I just couldn’t resist. I stood outside the newsstand eagerly tapping my foot as the man opened the shipment box, the first shipment to come to my area and I was right there at the front of the line, money already counted. I bought three or four packs of the gum right away and ran off with them. As I began the long walk back to my apartment, I opened the package and slipped the gum into my mouth.

Cassandra couldn't deny that she was obsessed. When she first saw Scarlett Johansson in "Lost in Translation", she bought a DVD of every other movie she had been in. She even bought the SpongeBob SquarePants movie just to hear her voice. She had subscribed to Internet fansites, and even started one of her own. And now her obsession had driven her to move to Hollywood, join a babysitting agency specializing in celebrities, and screw her way into her supervisor's favor until he assigned Cassie her dream job.