(For Donna’s ant spray, lighter, and TP challenge)
I never have been able to figure it out. Every time you hear about a storm on the way everyone rushes to the grocery store. I understand that if we’re going to have to hunker down for a day or two we need supplies, but even in our first world existence I still don’t quite get why one of the shelves at the store is always empty during these times. Ok, I understand that there’s a run on bread and milk. I even get that the cookie aisle is running low. After all, we do need our sugar fix if we’re going to perform a good hunkering. But here’s the part I don’t get:
Toilet paper.
For real, every time I rush to the supermarket before a storm, the toilet paper aisle has been raided. Really? Were folks just completely out the day before the storm? All of them? No one keeps any back up? Are folks just gonna stuff their faces so much that they’re gonna require mass amounts of TP to poop it all out? I just don’t get it. Our endearing Donna, recently saw a woman at the store buying only three items: ant spray, a lighter, and toilet paper. Maybe the toxic ant spray is to keep the newly famous Antman at bay so he doesn’t use up any of your toilet paper during a storm. Maybe the lighter is to light tea candles around the house when the power goes out. But for the love of God, would someone please explain to me the need for mass amounts of TP for the twenty-four to forty-eight you might not be able to leave the house?
All I know is that the next time I go to the store for pre-storm supplies, I’m gonna have to hit the paper goods aisle first because someone knows something I don’t know. Perhaps I can tear off sheets from the roll and leave messages for survivors telling them to save the toilet paper before they save themselves because it just may be the next bitcoin!?