There was a cart jam at the grocery store today!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and shopping before a “snow storm” lovers….
OMG! I took Grandma on a planned trip to the grocery store today. It was CRAAAAZZZZZZZY! OK, there is a weather system coming through tomorrow and Saturday is predicted to be bad but from all accounts it is just going to be bad on Saturday.
The masses had shopping carts loaded to the gills and some folks had 2 carts over loaded. It was so funny! The store was jammed with people pushing these carts that weighed 90 pounds or more down the aisles with anxious looks on their faces.
I even found myself buying stuff I never buy! I bought extra bread and coffee. WHY? I think it is the meteorologists. Do you think they get kick backs from the grocery stores?
Or do you think that people feel they have free reign to eat whatever they want when they are snowed in?
I think it is a secret pleasure. Getting all snowed in and having lots of food you usually never have.
I even bought the kids tater tots! They are going to be so jazzed!
Here they are waiting for the snow even though they don’t know! I just took this moments ago with my lap top. Oh dear lord let it snow! I want me some tots! hehehehe
More waiting for tots later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
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oh pleeeeze…you should hit the stores in jerzee when they predict a storm…its like people think they will get stuck on top of the mountain for months…”gotta load up on pro-visions” …it’s amazing…people fighting over bread and crap..
we could get a few inches or like a foot..depending on where the storm veers..oh boy! miss brandy the king charles spaniel is supposed to get picked up sunday morning.as her parents are supposed to be flying in from emxico saturday evening…yeah right! that ain’t gonna happen…i’m thinking she’ll be here until monday…
i stocked up on extra marrow bones today..forgot milk..i’ll get some tomorrow…i don’t really need any but gotta have marrow bones!
Everyone here loves tots! Can we stop by? 😀
That’s what happens here in south Texas on the coast when a hurricane is in the gulf. Lordy, lordy, don’t EVEN try to get anything at the store. If you do go you’d better have some patience and expect empty shelves. I always keep my cupboards and freezer filled. I replace everything we use from the week before every Saturday morning. This way if a storm is in the gulf and everybody is freaking out I just sit at home and laugh. I can skip a month’s worth of shopping and Ronald and I will have plenty to survive on. We’ve been in the situation and done it before. And I’m always ahead on dog food too. If I run out of anything for the dogs then they just have to survive on people food. What torture! And what’s really funny is all the people buying bottled water! They think they have to have this for some reason. I just don’t get it. Yes, the water can be contaminated during a storm, that’s a fact. But what’s wrong with running tap water and putting in containers you have around the house? I fill up the bathtub for animal water and dish washing water if needed. I save liter soda bottles and other miscellaneous big jugs and bring those out and fill those up. Comon people, use a little common sense here. The stores sell out of bottled water, milk, bread, eggs, you name it. What a riot.
I noticed the same thing on Thursday at the Supermarket, but I thought people were just stacking up for Super Bowl parties. I saw plent of pizzas, beers, cheese trays, corn dogs, etc.
Oh, they know when a storm is coming! Beatrice, my weather Basset is a better tornado forcaster than the weatherman. Sirens go off and I look to Bea. If she stays serenely on her pillow, I relax, but if she goes into GTO mode (glued to owner), I know I need to move to my safe space. The corgi, on the other hand, hears sirens and thinks it must be a party horn and wonders who forgot to invite the corgi.
You guys would not believe the weather alarmist at the TV stations here in the Cincinnati area. They are jumping in every 20 minutes with
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!
The storm has moved one mile in the last 10 seconds.
You can actually hear the nervousness in their voices and their eyes are wider. It is actually kind of creepy.
It’s like they enjoy whipping people into a frenzy.
Very strange how they all kind of do that. They are certainly not the voice of calm.
Cat
And that’s the problem. The media just makes everything out to be such a big deal. They cause all of the panic. Of course, in the case of Hurricane Ike it was a good thing. The older couple that stayed with us would have probably died of a heart attack because they got 2 feet of water in their house even tho it was high raised. The older lady is deathly afraid of water because she cannot swim. But…that’s not always the case. Most of the time the media is exaggerating.
Cat,
WLW has always been a good one for getting the”GREAT WHITE DEATH” hype going; particularly when Gary Burbank (love his rib joint) was still there! Anyway greetings from northwest central Ohio where we are in process of 10-12 inches and Samantha is not liking it ONE LITTLE BIT!!!
The ice rain has just started and it is coming down pretty hard. I am so bummed. I was going to take Grandma to a HUGE RV show tomorrow to get our minds off of Grandpa but now we are snowed in. I could almost start crying. I was looking so forward to it. Oh well……
Cat
I’m so sorry Cat. Hey, your creative. There’s bound to be something else you guys can do right there at home. If I were there we’d be playing some poker!
I hope your bad weather doesn’t come over to the UK like the last awful weather did when the whole of the UK was covered in ice and snow for several days!
Why oh why do some people not take care of our lovely animals? They should be kept in the same squalid conditions themselves to see what it feels like and should be imprisioned!
Stories like this make my blood boil and it deeply saddens me, especially if Bassets are involved!!
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Mother%2C+daughter+face+animal+cruelty+charges&articleId=c732771b-c9cc-43d0-ab8a-0ee8b5f933a8
Take care everyone!
Sophie and my Basset family in the UK
Sophie – that is so crazy! I was just reading that article when you added your comment. Scum bags. Look at those mug shots. It makes my blood boil.
We will try to keep this storm on this side of the pond! LOL
Nice to see you again!
Cat
Too bad you and Teeter can’t go to the RV show.. that sure sounded like a much needed distraction. I love you honey and give Teeter a kiss from me. If you are iced in put your feet and paws up and try to relax….I know you need it !!
Nin
Yeah Cat, those mug shots are pretty scary. They LOOK cruel!