The Shoplifting Consolation Chocolate Cake

So as you all know, i own a little chocolate shop. and due to the size of my store (tiny) and the fact that i'm selling a perishable product, i never ever thought i'd be shoplifted from. after all, this is an item that has no resale value. it's not like you can go and sell it on the street or the blackmarket. and of course teenagers and children often steal candy from stores, but not a boutique chocolate shop that sells gourmet chocolate. so i was shocked when i experienced my first shoplifting incident today, by a middle aged woman who stole chocolate from me. can you believe that? so i'm feeling a little down. not so much over the value of the chocolate, but because of the actual act of shoplifting. so to make myself feel better, and this being a food blog after all, i am eating some chocolate cake with whipped chocolate frosting, courtesy of betty crocker. yup. a little ugly, but still tasty. i've also spoken of my sheer capacity to eat lots of chocolate in an earlier post, but even for me, it's a consolation food. i spent last night making 6 dozen mini cupcakes for third thursday, this special event that we do at the hotel once a month. but at the end of it all, i still had all this cake mix left. so i decided to pour it all into a pan and make myself a chocolate cake. this morning, i found some left over whipped chocolate frosting (so maybe it's a few months old, frosting never really goes bad does it?) and spread that all over the slice of cake which i brought to work today in my little tupperware container. and thank goodness i did, cause now it's making me feel better. so what's the lesson here? take a slice of chocolate cake to work with you every day. it'll make you feel better, whether it's to make up for a bad day, or to make your good day even better.