I managed to get a quick run to Wegmans and by and large it looks as if things are slowly getting to be less panicky and insane, at least for the moment. There was plenty of meat in the coolers, everyone seemed to be respecting the purchase limits and maintaining the proscribed two meter distance (or essentially the length of the trolley) which isn’t that easy to do in confined spaces.
All except one individual who is blocking the mighty wall of packaged cheese at the rear of the store. He’s just parked there and messing about on his phone and after two minutes finally notices at least three people are waiting for him to make his selection and move on.
That was when he turned back to the cheese wall, spread his shoulders and arms wider as if he was protecting the cheese from being selected by other people…and returned to fiddling with his phone!
Apparently we didn’t realise we were dealing with Lord Richard, the Defender of the Wegmans Cheese Wall and Protector of the Faith.
So I bugger off and select other items and come back to the cheese wall about five minutes later and he’s STILL in the vicinity of it messing about with his phone! This time, some kind comrades inadvertently set an ACC-quality pick and blocked him from getting on my six as I made my move and grabbed a couple of packages of the Mexican blend.
Way to go, fellow shoppers! 🙂