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When your cupboards are full,
with tins overflowing,
think of the poor,
who can’t buy their food.
Profiteering raises,
the price of their goods,
people are buying
ten times their needs.
Stop being selfish, or frightened,
or stupid,
care for your fellows
and show empathy.
Apart from the obvious, (obviously). I went to the shop today and it was almost stripped bare of produce, so I got vaguely similar things to what I would normally get. But why are people obsessed with toilet rolls you can’t eat them can you?
List of shopping :
Loo roll roulade,
Toilet roll sausages,
Sandwiches with toilet paper squares.
Duck au loo roll?
I’m surprised my hubby found some this morning, but that’s because he went to a corner shop and not the supermarket.
Now what can I make out of a large jar of gherkins and some lime marmalade?
You know when the world has gone mad when all the toilet paper has gone off the shelves in the supermarket and you have to DRAW a loo roll.
And yet the question is WHY? The virus that is going round makes you have a temperature and a dry cough, followed by possible pneumonia and heart and liver problems in severe cases. There is no detail of upset stomachs? I was listening to the radio and they were saying it’s just the human psyche, big packets of toilet roll look important, so people buy them. It’s the siege mentality, if you are going to have to ‘self isolate’ it is important to have enough food and supplies in to last for a couple of weeks. But, sometimes we humans go a bit mad. One truck at the Blackwall tunnel (which runs under the Thames) was stopped by the highways department because it was overloaded. When they opened it up it was crammed with toilet paper. The driver got a £300 fine.
The sound of disgust in my hubby’s voice as he utters this word. The total hate he has of doing this chore.
What can I do? I’m still sore and hobbling about from falling over on Sunday. I’ve not rested that much, I’ve washed up and cooked food. It’s just I’m still sore. Why doesn’t he understand that I need help? I’m not doing it deliberately. I found a hole in the bathroom door this morning where my head must have hit it! I am struggling to sleep as my side hurts so I’m using pain killing gel. But as I get more mobile I find other bits that hurt.
But shopping? It’s just not a man thing. Or cooking, it’s hard enough to get him to wash up. Antediluvian man!
Update:
Bread, yes
Pickled onions, no- spring onions
Pork pie, no-a large block of cheese.
Coffee, no – a bag of spinach
Beetroot, no- 15 eggs
Tomato soup, no – a bottle of wine
Milk, no – pretend butter
Potatoes, no – sliced ham!
Items on the list bought 1. Items not on the list 7!
I give up!
Unexpected item in the bagging area.
No there is nothing there.
Please wait for assistance .
Why? There is nothing there!
Please return the item to the basket.
But I have not put anything in the bagging area.
Proof of age required, please wait for assistant.
It’s only a tub of yoghurt!
Have you scanned your loyalty card?
Yes 3 times!
Have you scanned your loyalty card?
Yes 4 times.
Please wait for assistance.
Look if you had a person here I would have paid by now!
Do you require more bags?
No I’ve only bought a tub of yoghurt!
Please weigh the item!
Why! It’s a tub of Greek style yoghurt!
Please wait for a member of staff.
No!
Please insert your payment card.
I’ve just paid cash?
Unexpected item in the bagging area.
It’s my head hitting the bagging area…
Thank you for shopping with us…..
Argh!
Mallaband-Brown