The cereal aisle is a long one, full of contradictions.

She cruised into the cereal aisle in a foul temper.

But I also notice how my kids turn into consumer zombies in the cereal aisle at the supermarket.

They buy ads on the floor of the cereal aisle.

But that is only for those sold in the cereal aisle.

Here are some steps to help make sense of the cereal aisle: * Ignore the package phrase "all natural."

Instead he wheeled quickly away, down the cereal aisle and around another corner into canned vegetables.

I learned to hide in the cereal aisle when he steered his shopping cart toward the produce section.

In the cereal aisle or frozen food section, Gabby couldn't seem to avoid him, and he became something of a confidant.

At one point I rounded a corner and espied a handsome orange cat halfway down the cereal aisle.