apocalypse shopping

Pop and I went on on one of our routine (or so I thought) Costco shopping trips today.  We got there late morning to try to avoid the crowds.  Our first clue that it was atypical was that there wasn't one open parking space, even behind the building.  We waited for a woman to load her truck, and then we took her parking space. 

 

We skipped the toilet paper and water aisles, so I don't know how bad those were, but the shelves were fairly empty for Costco.  Every employee that we spoke to said it had been three solid days of this, and that it's been worse than Christmas and hurricane shopping.  And apparently we did get there at the 'slow' time.  It was more crowded when they first opened, and it was worse as we were leaving, when the lunch crowd was arriving.

It was certainly an experience.   Everyone was friendly, without a bunch of panicked pushing and grabbing.

I stocked up with some extra sardines and frozen food, but neither one of us went too crazy.

I hope we both look back on this day as just another bizarre life event and not one that changed our reality.