One of the most amusing things to watch is the behavior of the masses. If you live in the DMV, you've most likely had the comedic pleasure of witnessing this phenomona over the past 24 hours. As we prepare for a major snowstorm - so serious it's earned names such as Snowpocalypse and Snowtorious BIG - there is a mad rush at every single grocery store. The Twitter reports speak of check out lines down aisles, and out the store doors; people fighting over shopping carts and turkey bacon; empty shelves where milk and toilet paper belong.
In light of all this activity, I do have two questions that I've always wanted to ask the masses raiding the grocery stores..
1. How long do you think two feet of snow will have you trapped in your house? Because your cart has enough food to last two weeks..
2. Does your family usually use toilet paper? And if so, is it atypical for you to have reserves of this at home already?
Follow up: do you guys poop more when it snows?
Note to all: snow is not the end of the world. it melts..
-- TamSam
Posting from my cute, pink covered, iPhone as my husband goes to Safeway to get some sorbet for movie-watching. Please don't maul him. Thanks.
1. 2 feet will keep me trapped for 1.5 days, but in the event that before I can get back to the grocery store the 2 week supply will keep me.
ReplyDelete2. Well to this and the followup - Yes we have reserves and No we don't plan to poop more. But we will be pooping more at home and using toilet paper usually reserved because we are pooping at work. Lol
You forgot to ask if people even EAT on a consistent basis with the full carts you see them pushing around the store. People in DC go plum crazy when it snows or even rains heavy for that matter. Pure unadulturated nonsense!! *smh*
ReplyDeleteWe had darn near 10 feet in Chicago.. those plows came through 15 minutes after it finished snowing and it was business as usual. LOL