//A supermarket worker made me laugh yesterday. I was looking for a bag of flour - "not one to be had", the lady told me - and added, ''the hoarders probably don't know what to do with it now they've got it!"
I suspect she could be right.//
Indeed, naomi. During my foray to Tesco’s yesterday I saw people progressing through the store, simply filling their trolleys with anything and everything. Much of it was taken from the shelves and the freezers without even looking what it was. It was a bit like the late “Wensley” Dale Winton’s “Supermarket Sweep”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_Sweep_%28British_game_show%29
During my hour in the queue I heard one woman discussing, with her friend, the two “jumbo” kitchen rolls she had in her trolley “Well I’ve got plenty at home. In fact I’m running out of space to store them, But I thought, well, since they’ve got some…”
//Of course we didn’t really “leave” the EU on Jan 31.
And just as well perhaps -//
And what exactly has the EU done to help its members (or us), Ikky? I’ve heard about their intense disagreement over how to support their members financially. I’ve also heard Frau Merkel declare that German medical goods were not to be exported and the cessation of cross-border travel (so two of the EU’s inviolate “fundamental freedoms” downed at a stroke as soon as the going gets tough). Oh, and I understand they have cancelled the latest episode of their ten-times-a-year circus and jamboree when they all up sticks from Brussels to Strasbourg (which will probably encourage the French fishermen to blockade Calais for a few days). Apart from that, not much of any use at all.
//Think most Brits are using this virus as an excuse to Panick buy food etc. But they are really stocking up in case Brexit is ever Finalised.//
And there’s me thinking this might be an interesting and intelligent thread!