Confessions of a Midnight Snacker

Gabe Capone
3 min readJan 28, 2022
This is a stock image of someone I don’t know sitting on the floor of a grocery store surrounded by bags of chips. Photo by Matheus Henrin from Pexels

Sneaking a snack is a high-risk heist, and I’m the elusive thief with the plan.

I want to eat my potato chips at 12:17 am by the glow of late-night TV in peace. Just me and my couch patatas. It’s a whole operation since the snack bags are so loud. When I’m in the mood for salty snacks, I will eat them, but I don’t want to announce it to the whole house. It’s a pleasure that I’d like to keep to myself…

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Gabe Capone

Writing mostly…joking around a lot…making art here and there…improvising all the time. Found on Medium, Thanks for Calling, Fatherly, Substack, other spots.