I drank the Kool-Aid and was rocking Nikes. No such thing as a free lunch? Think again.

Everyday at 1:00 pm, just outside Wright's sandwich bar (on LSE's campus), the Hare Krishna food cart arrives with free, hot vegan lunch. And everyday at 1:00 pm, coincidentally, a mass of hungry students appear to receive the food from the cultish figures that deliver it-- all I can say is, the cultish figures that shovel the food onto recycled paper plates must have seen Field of Dreams. They must know that, "if you [bring] it, they will come." The line of students that waits for this food (sometimes for at least 35 minutes) astounds me. I always watch in bewilderment as economics students cast notions of opportunity cost aside and say a huge screw you to homo economicus. I laugh at the irony as these students wait, and wait, and wait for this free food as if their time is less valuable than the dubious food they're about to receive. Last week, the line was 3 people long and despite my reluctance to participate in this weird daily ritual, I decided to give it a try. I got the green goo from the men with shaved heads (save a tiny patch where a mile long braid grows) and ate it suspiciously. The food was surprisingly okay but the cart's adornment, which graphically likened the killing of cattle to the genocide of people....was not. I wonder how many people realize what those guys are striving to do? Or maybe they're well aware but are prepared to cash in on a free lunch anyway? Not sure. But I felt like I had drank the Kool-Aid.