Everybody Runs Out of Milk

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I may have mentioned this before, but when my sister lived across the street from a liquor store, she said that the liquor store was the busiest store in town when snow was expected.

The liquor stores here are the same way, as I noticed on Tuesday when I went to Perfect Drugstore (ABC store right across the street.)

Couldn't get a space to park in that lot and it's small (the ABC store, that is.)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Same used to go for the pizza place I worked at. I was there a few months, during the winter. Once, the snow came down like crazy, and my boss decided to close the store since hardly any of the cashiers could get into work, and he thought that it would be too dangerous for the drivers to ride mopeds on the icy roads.

Fast forward to the day that the boss reopened, two days later, after the snow melted and we all got in. When my boss checked the answer phone, it was jam packed with messages left by angry would be customers who had called the pizza place and then been surprised to hear a message left by my boss that due to adverse weather conditions, the store was closed. Cuz of course, all pizza place employees are robots fitted with snow ploughs.

[EricKei]

Well, I don't have a snow story for pizza joints, but I do have a "torrential downpour" one. One day, the rain was coming down so hard that it overwhelmed the pumping stations, resulting in street flooding, and water coming in our store's front door (which was closed...it was pretty bad out there). Calls slowed down to a trickle (ha!), and we shut down delivery for a few hours. One caller -- who was nice, asked *why* we had stopped delivering. He lived only a few blocks from our store. We advised him, "Sir, why don't go go look out your front door. We'll wait." ...which he did. We heard the sound of the door opening and closing. He came back on the line about a minute later and said, "Never mind."

[MelindaJoy77]

I may have mentioned this before, but when my sister lived across the street from a liquor store, she said that the liquor store was the busiest store in town when snow was expected.

Same sort of thing when I lived in Florida - people would stock up for "hurricane parties"

[Sapphire Silk]

Same sort of thing when I lived in Florida - people would stock up for "hurricane parties"

Several of my colleagues and I are planning a pizza party for the snow expected tonight.

We're pretty much planning on school being canceled tomorrow.

I went all over town today looking for salt for the drive way; every place was sold out. So I stocked up on kitty litter instead.

[Tama]

Why not buy table salt? It works too. Al and I have been using it after the driveway salt ran out at our grocery store, and cans of table salt are only 57¢ here.

Might be a bit more effort but it still works.

[taxguykarl]

Why not buy table salt?

I used softener salt once.