At one point the woman wearing pants announced that the TV crew was going to follow us to the store for groceries. As we pushed our five shopping carts around Aldi, I heard a whisper that the crew was going to be paying for everything. So, for the first time ever, Mom wasn’t directing us to buy our usual stocks of canned beans, ramen noodles, and forty-eight-cent frozen beef and bean burritos. Instead, we were allowed to fill our carts with boxes of Lucky Charms and Honeycomb cereals, ice cream sandwiches, frozen pizzas, and all-beef chimichangas. Our carts were heavier than ever before, and
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