I don’t know how it happened but over the years I’ve become the grocery shopper in our household. I read the flyers, make notes, and hit at least a couple grocery stores for the bargains every week. I enjoy it. Perhaps too much. And I also buy multiple items if it’s a great deal.
I’m also following the Covid-19 Coronavirus panic and shaking my head at some of the things I’ve seen online. People wearing grocery bags or water bottles on their heads in public and at the airports. And for the life of me, I can’t figure out why they’re buying toilet paper. This virus is only respiratory, there is no gastro-intestinal component. And self-isolation is 14 days, not the rest of the year. So there is absolutely no need to buy a year’s worth of toilet paper.
But some stores , even locally, are selling out of toilet paper.
So here’s where my bargain hunting mania collides with my shaking my head at the T.P. hoarders. I’m at the store today and my favourite brand of toilet paper was on sale. It was only the eight double roll package of the super soft stuff, but it was a little more than half price off – a savings of around 3.50, so even though I knew what people would think I bought four packages. Then headed straight to the checkout. I could feel people looking at my toilet paper packages.
Never have I felt more judged.
So I did the only thing I could think of. I pretended to cough into my arm.
