Grocery Store Cereal Aisle

Second stop of four, and the only one you cared about. The bright boxes are all at your eye level and the boring ones are all above it, which is the first piece of adult strategy you ever noticed and never mentioned. You have been told to pick one, and the one you want has a mascot that is slightly off from the mascot you remember — same colors, same grin, wrong face. Your cart is one aisle over and has been for a while, and you can hear a wheel that squeaks going away from you rather than toward you.

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Reality Is Optimal · created by Julian Cape, 2026