no wheat flour to be found at the grocery store
This morning, after two weeks of me coming home without wheat flour, Tod gave in and ordered a 50-pound bag online. I will probably never have to buy wheat flour again. I should amend my will to leave the rest of the wheat flour to one of my nieces.
Yesterday, at the grocery store, they must have received a shipment of toilet paper, because I saw a woman carrying literally as much toilet paper as she could carry. I think the volume of the toilet paper in her arms exceeded her own size. I thought, "isn't one large bundle of toilet paper enough?" This is why we have a shortage -- people see toilet paper on the shelf and buy literally as much as they can carry.
Tod had requested frozen peas, but didn't tell me why. The frozen vegetable aisle was stripped as bare as the baking goods aisle. No frozen peas. I imagined every house in my neighborhood with a basement freezer filled to the top with bags of frozen peas, frozen peas for the apocalypse. I could've looked for canned peas, or fresh peas, but he didn't tell me the purpose of the peas, and as a rule I don't take my phone out of my pocket while at the grocery store, to avoid contaminating it. And by then I had to pee badly (no pun intended), and didn't want to pee at the store. So, no peas.
In general, food is plentiful, but there are still certain items that get stripped bare.
The customers are required to wear face coverings, and the store has marked each aisle as "one way" with red tape on the floors forming forward arrows. Some people ignore the markings and go the wrong way. I saw one man doing that, who had also removed his face covering, and I thought, "what an asshole."
As I was waiting in line for the self-checkout machines, a woman was walking the length of the store shouting, "Marlene! Where are you, Marlene?" She was lifting her face covering so her voice would travel farther -- so her voice-propelled breath droplets would travel farther also. What if Marlene didn't want to be found? What if this was her only chance to spend some time away from Loud Woman? What if she had left the store, and had driven away, to find a place where no other humans could be seen or heard?
That's what I wanted to do. I hope Marlene found her peas, I mean peace.
Yesterday, at the grocery store, they must have received a shipment of toilet paper, because I saw a woman carrying literally as much toilet paper as she could carry. I think the volume of the toilet paper in her arms exceeded her own size. I thought, "isn't one large bundle of toilet paper enough?" This is why we have a shortage -- people see toilet paper on the shelf and buy literally as much as they can carry.
Tod had requested frozen peas, but didn't tell me why. The frozen vegetable aisle was stripped as bare as the baking goods aisle. No frozen peas. I imagined every house in my neighborhood with a basement freezer filled to the top with bags of frozen peas, frozen peas for the apocalypse. I could've looked for canned peas, or fresh peas, but he didn't tell me the purpose of the peas, and as a rule I don't take my phone out of my pocket while at the grocery store, to avoid contaminating it. And by then I had to pee badly (no pun intended), and didn't want to pee at the store. So, no peas.
In general, food is plentiful, but there are still certain items that get stripped bare.
The customers are required to wear face coverings, and the store has marked each aisle as "one way" with red tape on the floors forming forward arrows. Some people ignore the markings and go the wrong way. I saw one man doing that, who had also removed his face covering, and I thought, "what an asshole."
As I was waiting in line for the self-checkout machines, a woman was walking the length of the store shouting, "Marlene! Where are you, Marlene?" She was lifting her face covering so her voice would travel farther -- so her voice-propelled breath droplets would travel farther also. What if Marlene didn't want to be found? What if this was her only chance to spend some time away from Loud Woman? What if she had left the store, and had driven away, to find a place where no other humans could be seen or heard?
That's what I wanted to do. I hope Marlene found her peas, I mean peace.