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Round two of Shopping Task 100 was a red hot exercise in divided loyalties. Arron, a non-smoker had to decide whether to sacrifice the group’s cigarettes to win 20 points, bringing the group significantly closer to a premium shopping budget. After the confused housemates had obeyed BB's instructions to bring all their cigarettes to the sofa area, the trunks-sporting model was asked to stand up and told of his choice. Silence hung in the air as the smokers looked on with shocked, widened eyes. Then suddenly Arron was attacking the cigarettes. After the deed was done and the silence lingered, Arron, quietly, in the voice of a child who knows they've incurred the wrath of a parent, said, "Just so you know, I did smoke for two years so I understand that this is a terrible thing to happen." Truly terrible, up there with the great wrongs of the 21st century. There were murmurs of support from non and infrequent smokers but silent fuming was all that came from certain quarters. Lauren, an addicted smoker threatened to turn into a "She-Hulk". "It was such a struggle to sit there and watch him do that," she said, drawing a comparison between this heinous act of cigarette-violence and the destruction of a beloved photo. Lydia felt it would have been better to lose the task. Cigarettes are more improtant than food, it would seem. Meanwhile, Arron was sitting out the backlash in the garden where he was joined by sometimes-enemy, sometimes-flirt-buddy Deana. "I would have done the same thing," she said. |
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