There are some who’ve managed to retire and turn their idleness into an art form of constant endless days of similarity. Turn on the coffee pot and settle into some countless hours of television before going outside to sit and watch traffic . I’m not sure I understand where people can find the time to just do nothing . Mondays are my kick start day of the week and this one past was no exception. Mondays are the day I ship out most of the items I’ve sold on the internet and so an early visit to the Post Office and sometimes Fedex shipping center is always in order .
The packages were dumped in the drop off bin at the post office and I’d just completed my semi-daily 1 and 3/4 mile long power walk along the chain of lily pad covered ponds when I noticed I had enough time to make it up to MalWart to pick up some pre tariff socks and underwear and still make it to Fedex by the 9 a.m. opening . Now, if you’ve ever lived in an area that’s prone to natural disasters you’ll understand the feeling of walking into a store to be confronted by something you don’t recognize as it seems so abnormal, even a little frightening . I’m talking large swaths of empty shelves . Generally around here those shelves would have held drinking water and toilet paper but this one was a little different.
Small miracle in that my size and color choice of socks and underpants were in stock and I snagged a pack of each before heading over to groceries for a few sundries. Sixteen hours away from the promised Canadian Tariffs and I noticed that MalWart had already tagged an extra dollar to the price of a four pack of Canadian Moosehead Ale as I passed by on the way to the egg shelves . Here I found two bickering women.
” I had my hand on them first ” said one
” But you put them back down ” said the other
What they were talking about was the last remaining carton of $5.29 a dozen eggs on endless shelves whose only other option offered was four remaining cartons of $ 7.29 a dozen eggs . Walmart had put up a sign expressing apologies for the inconvenience but they were all out of eggs . I was thinking this is a lot better than running out of toilet paper when another man and his scowl appeared and said with volume ….
” What the Fuck ”
As he and I along with the losing lady each reached for a dozen of the unaffordable orbs I mentioned the possibility that in all likely hood chickens don’t have green cards and perhaps they all got deported as well as those who would have gathered their eggs . I don’t believe either of them saw the slightest humor in that and rushed off with out a word . Leaving that one lonely carton of eggs behind I headed to the vegetables while I could still afford an avocado
