During the first few months of Covid-19, I was living at home in suburban Ohio with my parents. I only ever went two places: hiking, and the grocery store. The grocery store was expensive, and the one that I’d grown up visiting. As a kid I used to count the lobsters in the tank each time we went shopping, so I could figure out who’d gone missing. Now, in the early, most fearsome weeks of the pandemic, I brought home reports from the store like a grizzled war correspondent. No toilet paper or yeast or soap or seltzer. Another time, no eggs. The next time, no tortillas. Also, a puzzling run on Cascade detergent that never abated, even when the other staples came back in stock.
For or Against: Grocery shopping
For or Against: Grocery shopping
For or Against: Grocery shopping
During the first few months of Covid-19, I was living at home in suburban Ohio with my parents. I only ever went two places: hiking, and the grocery store. The grocery store was expensive, and the one that I’d grown up visiting. As a kid I used to count the lobsters in the tank each time we went shopping, so I could figure out who’d gone missing. Now, in the early, most fearsome weeks of the pandemic, I brought home reports from the store like a grizzled war correspondent. No toilet paper or yeast or soap or seltzer. Another time, no eggs. The next time, no tortillas. Also, a puzzling run on Cascade detergent that never abated, even when the other staples came back in stock.