No Milk

An unexplained power outage in the neighborhood this morning. It is ongoing. Seems to be centered just a couple of blocks up the street, including Safeway, which is in panic mode and fortifying with a truckload of ice, and the convenience store across the street which has thrown in the towel and closed for the day evidently, for it is dark and abandoned.

Thus I have no milk for my oatmeal and coffee.

I walked into Safeway at nine to ask about the timeline of this event and a  bemused clerk said it happened at 7 a.m.

Then she said, with a faint smile, that the damages would total $10 million.  I laughed and said would it not be wiser to just start giving perishables away so that they're not wasted.

If you walk out with something I won't stop you, she said.

We had quite the fantasy working there for a moment.


TS