Apples, Bananas and Bread, Oh My or D/s On-line Style toy thoughts ,  by T A Foley 
 

What would you think if you followed a person through the 
grocery store and he took a bite from an apple and put back the apple... peeled 
a banana, consumed it and cast the skin to the floor....  opened a loaf of 
 bread, took a slice, nibbled it, liked it, so took two more not even 
 bothering to close the wrapper. Then  letting  the loaf fall where it 
 may,  slaps some lettuce and meat on that bread,   opens a jar of 
 mayonnaise  makes himself a sandwich....and  as  you followed on  he 
then guzzles down a carton of milk...  and then leaves ... without paying for 
 any of it........

Aside from  thinking "...well he eats a fairly balanced 
 diet.."  you might consider him a thief, arrogant, selfish, 
 thoughtless  and so on and so forth. 
         Some people say  "I would stop him long before he got THAT 
 far."   Some people say "Its none of my business so long as he stays 
away from what's in MY cart."    But  just supposing he had done that ,  and 
 then other people  discover these items.  Some look  upon them  and 
 say  "Hey nothing wrong with the rest of the stuff " and purchase it at 
a reduced price and consider themselves fortunate to have gotten a deal.
 
         Now what about the aftermath of the damage?  What about the 
 people who  come upon what he did, after the fact? Some would look at the  goods as 
damaged and  discard it without  a thought. Some would completely ignore it, passing 
over it as though it never existed even while it sits there and eventually puts up a big 
 stink..  Some would complain that it was damaged and then make somebody 
 else discard it.
 
         And some would look at the apple/bread/meat/ mayonnaise and 
 wonder  if the Sampler had poisoned it, and then look on it with 
loathing and disgust and force its removal with gloved hands.
 
         There doesn't seem to be much use for the  banana peel  except 
by  a gardener, which in the circumstance of a grocery store would be highly 
 unlikely.  So the  banana will probably be seen as total waste, run over 
 a few times   stick to a few shoes  until scraped off.  And the milk 
 carton?  Well, maybe just maybe it can be recycled if somebody  takes 
the time to take it over to the recycling  corner.
 
         So what's all this  have to do with Dominance and 
 submission?  Well, we all know people who  walk through the  BDSM rooms 
 and take "samples'" without care or caution for the  "goods" or for the 
 "goods" usability  afterwards.
 
         People say they would speak up if somebody were to do such a 
 thing in a grocery store  but why don't they speak up when they witness 
 'samplers'  among the people.  Are peoples feelings less than things?
 
         Are Samplers  Dominants?  Sometimes,  but i see just as 
 many  among the submissives.
 
         Who are you  in the scheme of things?
 
         A Sampler,  or one who watches and says nothing, or one who 
comes on the damage and says okay i dont mind the damage and places a value on 
 the goods and  is glad for it,  or  are you the one who views the 
"goods" as poisoned?   Or do you ignore them as you look for your things despite 
 their cry of help? 
 
 
         And what  about the Grocer?   The Owner of all those "goods" 
 which are  Dom and sub alike... Won't you have to answer to Him at some 
 point in time?
 
         Me?  Oh,  i want to be the  gardener/recycler and find value 
even in the banana peel and  milk carton and even the bread wrapper.  I will 
 strive for that all my life:   "To see the value in each human being no 
 matter how much i may actually dislike them personally."