BostonBob
4 Ever The Greatest
I think I might have posted this story before over in the Bruins section but I'll repeat it here. About 2 weeks into the COVID crisis I was at a local supermarket picking up a few things. I was amazed as just about everybody else in the store was pushing around shopping carts filled to the brim with supplies like they were expecting to be holed up for the next few months. I was in the frozen food section when 2 stockboys walked by me carrying large boxes. There was no lettering on these boxes but the way they were carrying them I knew the contents were pretty light. They dumped the boxes in-between a couple of aisles and one of them opened up his box and pulled out its contents. It was the cheapest looking toilet paper I had ever seen and it looked like your butt would bleed using the damn stuff. But this was right when toilet paper, tissue paper and paper towels were like gold. Everybody nearby stampeded towards the boxes grabbing as many as they could carry. One of the stockboys yelled out that it was a limit of 2 per person and this middle aged man ( with 2 young kids in tow ) yelled back " F**k you - there's no sign " and put about 6 packs into his overflowing cart. And that wasn't even the worst thing I saw - to everybody's amazement 2 old ladies started fighting over one of the last packages. One was swinging a cane and the other one was swinging her purse. Finally one of them stumbled and had to grab onto her shopping cart to keep from falling over and the other lady then calmly walked over and grabbed the last pack. Both ladies then walked away like nothing out of the ordinary had just happened. At this point I figured it was time to pay for the stuff I had in my basket and get the hell out of Dodge before somebody pulled a gun fighting over the last jar of coffee.