These third world nations are just the first places to erupt in social unrest. Which is exactly what you would expect.
I went out today to get some washed potatos. The supermarket fruit&vegetable section looked like there was an air raid siren blaring. Half the produce was cleaned out and what was left looked like it had gag price stickers from a Monty Python skit. The grocer wanted $12.00 for a bag of potatos that appeared to have been salvaged off a warehouse floor somewhere.
As for the rest of the store and all the packaged goods, that was like Vault-Co on crack.
Nobody is more scared than I am when something I have predicted comes true. It always shocks the living hell out of me. I just call'em like I see'em and it's still a fright when I realize it was really that easy to get right.
1 comment:
"The grocer wanted $12.00 for a bag of potatos that appeared to have been salvaged off a warehouse floor somewhere."
What size was that bag? Surely you're just being uncharacteristically melodramatic... I can get a 4kg bag of perfectly good spuds for $2, a couple of good T-bones for $6 for the deuce, 1kg bag of fresh carrots for ~.85c (mind you, it was .50c this time last year). You set up shop in the wrong end of Oz ;)
Post a Comment