Field Notes From An Outing To The Grocery Store

Some things were weird and surrealistic:

--The store was more empty than normal for a Wednesday (I have Wednesdays off and often shop on this day).

--Other than a few things (I am looking at you, pasta and paper isles) the store was well stocked with the usual items.

--People dressed normally and people with full regalia of protective gear shopped harmoniously. Neither type seemed alarmed by the presence of the other type. I found it really creepy: Are we in a zombie apocalypse and some oblivious people haven't noticed or is everything normal and some people are overcome by paranoia?


Some things never change: A shopper who was putting away his cart at the same time as me, left his cart where his poor aim had left it; stuck on the corral railing. Lackadaisical! And then just to prove the point, he was ahead of me in the lane exiting the parking lot. It widens into two lanes, one for a left turn that gets backed up since they have to wait for a light and the right turn, which is normally empty since you can take a right without waiting for a light. He stopped about 15 feet behind the car ahead of him in line. I had room, barely, to get by since that was where the lanes widened. But the next car behind Mr. Oblivious will block the right lane. It reinforces my general rule: If somebody does a thing half-assed, they do everything half-assed.