We are going to be hit by a hurricane, weather guessers say. Maybe. Or not at all. I’ll take the latter, thank you.
My wife
braved crowds and shortages and noneses for more than two hours today. One place,
no gasoline. Another place, gas and lines and 10 cents higher than the place
with no gas. She got in line at another place only to be NSCAR’d by an
impatient but quicker customer. Okay. Time to go to the grocery store. “My car
has 48 miles of gasoline,” she said when she got home.
The grocery
store? “There were more people walking around in the parking lot than at the
day before Christmas,” she said. In the grocery store, she got to talking with
another woman. “She said her husband was at Walmart, and he said it was empty.
There were no groceries.”
We have
plenty of food, and did before my wife went out. Now we have more. She sold the
propane grill about six months ago. “We’re not using it as much as I thought we
would,” she said. If electricity goes out for an extended time, I will make
fire and heat water for coffee. Maybe I should gather dry wood. I think we have matches.
Sounds like my wife. She has a bad habit of thinking that if something hasn't been used in the last six months, we need to get rid of it. My being a bit of a pack rat (hoarder according to her) has saved us a lot of money and hassle over the years
ReplyDeleteWe used to have lots of unusable stuff, but in a move from Texas in 2007 got rid of most of the extraneous. With the propane grill, I was thinking hurricane season, but bad ones almost never hit the Tampa area. We'll see.
Delete“My car has 48 miles of gasoline,”
ReplyDeleteSounds like my wife
Every time we get into her vehicle, it's on "E".
House hunting in Arkansas in 2007 several times I heard, "I guess I should have gotten gas before we started," and, "It's around here somewhere. I guess I should have downloaded directions." We always got where we were going. And back.
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