Getting Ready for the Storm

Yeah, okay. So we're getting a very large storm. You would think that all of the winter experience the people in the fabulous state of Maine have with such things during the winter, that they would have at least the essentials stored away already.

Apparently, I'm an idiot for thinking such things. Working in a retail pharmacy that is located in a grocery store, I got to watch people rushing around for things like flashlights and batteries. Really? Don't you already have, I don't know... Five or six fracking flashlights from when you were doing your running around like a chicken fresh from the gallows this past winter?

Getting your medications squared away, I can understand. I will never fault someone for planning for something like that. If you get trapped in your house with only one or two days' supply of whatever meds your on, that would suck. It wasn't the business of the pharmacy this past week that bothered me.

What did bother me was what I saw people buying. These are the same exact things I'll see people buying in bulk when a snow storm hits come December:

• Milk
• Ice cream
• Frozen pizza
• Other various frozen foods/meals

Really? I mean... Really?! In what realm of thought is buying refrigerated or frozen items just before potentially losing your power a smart idea? It isn't even like in winter where it's cold enough to just shove whatever it is outside to keep it cold! This is a tropical fucking storm we have coming toward us, people! Buy your flashlights, buy your water, toilet paper, bread, peanut butter, granola bars, and whatever the fuck else you can that doesn't require refrigeration or cooking! I know for a fact that a lot of you aren't equipped with camping supplies like Coleman stoves, nor do you have fireplaces, so I have no idea how you plan to cook these things.

I just... Can't for one second fathom what could be going through the minds of the people buying some of the most useless items during a time like this. It makes me reevaluate my status on never having children purely so that the overall IQ of the population can stay at a reasonable level.