LEMONANE SPRINGS

I hate hippies. Here I am looking like every other freak in Berkeley and finding myself forced to deal with some of the stupidest people imaginable.

I belong to a neighborhood food conspiracy, and my fellow freaks have exercised so much social pressure that I have eliminated foods from the family diet that we all love. These people buy my food for me, and they will not permit the conspiracy to handle anything that is �bad for you.� I missed the whole brussels sprouts season because the stupid conspiracy couldn�t find brussels sprouts which were organic enough. Now, I like to eat organic food and I buy it whenever I can, but I love brussels sprouts. I have now started buying produce outside of the conspiracy so that I have free choice of vegetables and fruit, organic or not.