If You Must Buy Enough Supplies for a Stand Down with ATF Agents, Go to Target
First of all, as Jason Cherkis sort of points out while waiting for the heavens and check-out lines to move at Harris Teeter yesterday, people need to get a grip about the pending Snowmageddon. We're getting a couple feet of snow, not two feet of nuclear fall0ut.
This is a winter storm, people, not The Road. You likely have enough food in your pantry already to survive a week-long stand-off with ATF agents (you know, if that's your thing). You don't need to stock up on frozen pizzas, toilet paper, and whale blubber. If you have to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday without your precious Doritos 3D's Zesty Ranch chips, so be it. Thaw some of that crap that's been in the deep-freeze for months.
Second of all, think back all the way to December. The streets were mostly passable the following day after a storm that dropped 20-some inches of snow in the area! You'll be out of the house in no time.
Third, if you really need to get groceries today, go to Target. Carrie just got back from there after trying two legit grocery stores that were, essentially, restaging the opening scene from The Gangs of New York. Target was civilized.
11:13 am
Best description of how folks were behaving at my local Giant last night that I've read. My coworkers are wondering why I'm laughing out loud, tho!
Thanks!!
11:42 am
Tim, you're missing the point of this. It not that people are going goofy because of the storm, its just something for us to get goofy about together.
All of a sudden, all DC residents get another shared negative experience. We thought we were only getting one, the last one in December. And then the weather gods decided to give us another one!
In all likelihood this is the last misery we'll share this winter...
11:50 am
Are you saying, RobShaw, that D.C. has a collective masochistic streak?
-T
1:26 pm
let's come clean, people. we hoard supplies and food for snow storms because we will find ourselves with a perfectly legitimate excuse to sit on our asses, watching TV for hours upon hours, and stuffing our faces full of junk food. let's just go with it.
2:34 pm
@ RobShaw, do you really consider a snowstorm on a weekend a "negative experience"? It's fun!
4:49 pm
Nice with the film references.
And I found Target surprisingly well-stocked, too, at least last night.
5:26 pm
Thanks, Tricia! I'll take any opportunity I can to watch the opening scene from Gangs of New York. Daniel Day Lewis is amazing in that role.
8:26 pm
A friend went to Whole Foods (Winsconsin Ave.) on Friday night and she said people were fighting over bread and everyone was also stocking on Wine as if it were to snow for weeks.
I think the Media affects all of this, I saw many Store owners mentioning on TV that the last "Snowmaggedon" on December they recovered from bad sales, so my guess is that this weekend was another way to make profit.
Me, I found it as an excuse to bake Flan, Banana Bread & eat Chorizo the whole weekend =) No regrets.