First it was toilet paper and bottled water. Then we all had
trouble finding hand sanitizer, disinfectant spray, wipes and hand soap. After
that it was fresh meat, canned beans, dried pasta, Campbell’s soup, and yeast.
Then we all ran out of coins. Furloughed employees turned to gardening and home
improvement projects, and before long Home Depot looked like locusts had
descended. All summer long there was a run on bikes, trampolines, and personal
watercraft as trips were cancelled and bored families searched for other ways
to fill the time. Now that summer’s over there’s a shortage of canning jars,
lids, and pectin as all those gardeners scramble to preserve their harvest. Children and adults working from home need inexpensive laptops and office furniture,
so of course there’s a shortage of those. This has already been such an
interesting year. Don’t you wish you knew today what everyone will suddenly
need next month?
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