Reduced Fat

Ralph walked into the bodega on Houston Street. Ignoring the owner’s greeting, he proceeded to the back of the store, his eyes searching the refrigerated cases for milk. Correction, soy milk. She had to have her ridiculous soy milk. As if the world would end if she consumed any fat calories that originated from something of the bovine species. God, she was irritating. But then, she’d always been irritating on some level. And now here he was, at 1 a.m., halfway between the $6.79 Organic 2% Reduced Fat Milk and the $3.59 French Vanilla Gourmet Coffee Creamer. He missed Renee. Grabbing the soy milk, he frowned, his reflection staring back at him in the glass door. He’d done this to himself, as usual. And all for only 110 calories per cup.