We've all been there. There's a delicious cake staring right at you but you can't take the first piece; that would make you look like a glutton.For some reason I'm more averse to being seen as a glutton than I am about being one. I know that in the privacy of my own home I can and sometimes do eat an entire bag of potato chips. I shouldn't, but do. However, in public, the fear of being perceived as a glutton pulls me in one direction while my desire for conference-table-cake pulls in the opposite. So the two forces tend to balance out. Sure, I eat some cake, but I also go without some....unless no one's looking.
