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Midsummer - and no suck!
Over here in Finland, Midsummer is Serious Business. On Friday, the shops largely closed at noon, and the highways and railways out of the city were all filled to capacity. Bonfires will be lit all over the country today, and a large proportion of the population begins their long summer holiday and will therefore not come back for a while.
So, I took the limited opportunity to refill my freezer in preparation for the weekend.
On the way over to my friendly local co-operative supermegahypermarket, I noticed that the local roads were considerably quieter and emptier than usual. A lot of people had already left the city to beat the rush, while others were still packing up. Certainly nobody was going to or from work, or making deliveries. The sun was shining brightly, making it a wonderful day.
Once inside however, it was clear that a lot of other people had the same idea that I did. In sharp contrast to the local roads, the store was busy as heck. However, it's big enough to cope, and I didn't find they had run out of anything that I wanted. The queues for the checkouts were long, but they were fairly evenly distributed, most of the checkouts were open, and people waited in a quiet and orderly fashion. Indeed there was, as far as I could see in both directions up and down the checkout lanes, no suck going on at all.
What are the odds?
So, I took the limited opportunity to refill my freezer in preparation for the weekend.
On the way over to my friendly local co-operative supermegahypermarket, I noticed that the local roads were considerably quieter and emptier than usual. A lot of people had already left the city to beat the rush, while others were still packing up. Certainly nobody was going to or from work, or making deliveries. The sun was shining brightly, making it a wonderful day.
Once inside however, it was clear that a lot of other people had the same idea that I did. In sharp contrast to the local roads, the store was busy as heck. However, it's big enough to cope, and I didn't find they had run out of anything that I wanted. The queues for the checkouts were long, but they were fairly evenly distributed, most of the checkouts were open, and people waited in a quiet and orderly fashion. Indeed there was, as far as I could see in both directions up and down the checkout lanes, no suck going on at all.
What are the odds?
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