Panic Buying.

[Roger Kettle]

It's now been a week since the snow arrived here and it's starting to bite. There has been no post delivered, no buses running, no bins emptied and very few deliveries have arrived at our local stores. Today, I tooled up and headed out shopping. There was no bread or milk but I managed to wrestle the last jar of pickled onions away from an old lady. As it took her a while to get back to her feet, I also managed to beat her to the last packet of Bisto and a bottle of soy sauce. The six year-old girl who thought she'd nailed the bag of wine gums had another think coming. I distracted her by shouting "There's Santa!" and had reached the checkout with the precious gums before she'd burst into tears. As for the little old man who couldn't reach the last bag of Doritos on the top shelf---well, he just didn't stand a chance.
It's war.

[Vulture]

It's now been a week since the snow arrived here and it's starting to bite. There has been no post delivered, no buses running, no bins emptied and very few deliveries have arrived at our local stores. Today, I tooled up and headed out shopping. There was no bread or milk but I managed to wrestle the last jar of pickled onions away from an old lady. As it took her a while to get back to her feet, I also managed to beat her to the last packet of Bisto and a bottle of soy sauce. The six year-old girl who thought she'd nailed the bag of wine gums had another think coming. I distracted her by shouting "There's Santa!" and had reached the checkout with the precious gums before she'd burst into tears. As for the little old man who couldn't reach the last bag of Doritos on the top shelf---well, he just didn't stand a chance.
It's war.

So, dinner tonight will be pickled onions, Bisto, soy sauce (heavy or light?) and Doritos, with wine gums for pudding..... ?

[The Peepmaster]

So, dinner tonight will be pickled onions, Bisto, soy sauce and Doritos, with wine gums for pudding..... ?

That's what he cooked for us last week.

[Max]

I was on holiday today and decided I would get to the shops early. Got to Morrisons in Dumbarton about 10:30 AM and it was full, I mean FULL.

Had to queue to get in because of traffic waiting to get into the petrol station. Police eventually showed up because of this.

Once inside it looked fairly normal until I got to the bread aisle, still quite a lot there  but the popular brands were all gone, ditto in the aisle where they stock salt, nothing left

I saw a guy with at least 12, 3 or 4 litre bottles of water on his trolley, nothing else.

The lady at the checkout told me this had been going on since Tuesday, people with 15 bags of salt, a dozen loaves, just panic buying.

It's  bad enough after a very few days of snow (I got to work with very few problems this week), I would hate to see the country if something serious happened.

Can't think of anything funny to add to this, sorry.

[Vulture]

So, dinner tonight will be pickled onions, Bisto, soy sauce and Doritos, with wine gums for pudding..... ?

That's what he cooked for us last week.

[Joan]

     Made me laugh, although I can see this getting horrendous, especially for Roger's fellow shoppers.

[Diane CBPFC]

We always had a lot of food on hand when I was a kid and I too like took keep a good suppy. Just today I bought 16 cans of tuna because it was on for 50c a can.

[Fyodor]

It's now been a week since the snow arrived here and it's starting to bite. There has been no post delivered, no buses running, no bins emptied and very few deliveries have arrived at our local stores. Today, I tooled up and headed out shopping. There was no bread or milk but I managed to wrestle the last jar of pickled onions away from an old lady. As it took her a while to get back to her feet, I also managed to beat her to the last packet of Bisto and a bottle of soy sauce. The six year-old girl who thought she'd nailed the bag of wine gums had another think coming. I distracted her by shouting "There's Santa!" and had reached the checkout with the precious gums before she'd burst into tears. As for the little old man who couldn't reach the last bag of Doritos on the top shelf---well, he just didn't stand a chance.
It's war.

You're making it up, Kettle. No self-respecting six year-old would fall for that old ruse. She beat you to them, didn't she? And I think we all know who it was that burst into tears.

[Roger Kettle]

Damn those CCTV cameras.