Anything but the booze! Pleassssse...

I popped into the local LCBO this morning, you know, just to pick up some boxes for packing up books and what not...don't want to give the impression I'm after booze before noon.  Although yes, certainly, I didn't see the point of actually being in the store and not picking up a little something anyway.  I mean, that's just good planning.  I can stop drinking whenever I want, dammit.
But I digress.  I mentioned, by way of small talk to the cashier, that I was sure she was glad they were not out on strike.  She replied that she was certainly glad of that and also glad that she had not been on shift during what she referred to as 'Nutty Tuesday'...the day before the strike was supposed to happen.  My jaw dropped as she told me that the shelves had been stripped bare that day.  She said the crowds were such that they doubled their entire Christmas week sales in one day. One day!  She told me they had just received a huge shipment and that only 10% of it stayed in the basement, the rest was used to fill the upstairs shelves.
Hmmm...rather interesting wouldn't you say?  I'm afraid to think about what that all says about us...most of us.  I'm sure people weren't nearly as up in arms about a nasty old garbage strike as they were about the prospect of a summer weekend without a tasty cocktail or two. Well, at least we know what our priorities are.  If we ever really go to war with another nation it likely won't be over a boundary dispute or politics or sovereignty issues...it'll be about somebody cutting off our booze supply.

Comments

[Tom Pike]

I think society in general needs to cut people a little slack when it comes to needs and addictions. I wonder sometimes what it would be like if we had a way to measure how descent/good people are feeling relative to everyone else. It wouldn't surprise me if some people just had unfortunate brain chemistry and generally didn't feel in a good way. Combine with that some less than happy life circumstances/upbringing and you have a good built in reason to self medicate in the most socially acceptable way going. They say 5% of people generally become drug addicts no matter what laws you put in place. I doubt the bulk of this is personal choice but feeling normally pretty crummy (you get used to anything until the it somehow goes away). Just another way of looking at the desperation to not run short, good planning aside.