Ice, Groceries & The South.

Friday, the forecast called for freezing rain and sleet with some snow for all weekend.

There is this Southern phenomenon of everyone needs to go to the grocery store and buy EVERYTHING when we have snow or ice forecasted. You don't have to need anything to do this, but with forecasted ice you go and spend your last penny on stuff.

At our house, we have 2 refrigerators both freezers are almost full and we have turned the hall closet into a pantry which is almost full. We could easily go for 2 weeks without going to the grocery store.

Friday after work, mom wanted me to take her to Kroger to fill her prescription. The prescription part is legitimate. We get to the parking lot and I let her out at the door and park in the only open spot about a 1/4 mile from the door. I find her pushing her cart in the vegetable department. The people are lined up at the registers almost all the way to the back of the store.

There is almost no bread in the store. The vegetable department is very low. In the Meats there is no ground beef or chicken. There is a limited smattering of steaks & pork. No whole milk but a little bit of 2% and plenty of skim milk. I am sure those were all gone when the 9-5 people showed up.

Now filling Mom's prescription only took a few minutes, but then we had to find a checkout for the 10 things she bought. We finally found a U-Scan line that only had about 40 people in it. I kept asking her if she was sure she really needed those 10 things. She swore that she did. When we got home she steadily complained that it took way too long at the grocery store.

Now of all the stuff that we bought at the store on Friday, the only thing we ate over the weekend was eggs & grapes. We could have functioned fine without eggs & grapes for 2 days. I wonder how many people have over full fridges, pantries & bellys from being snowed in for 2 days.