Did you people skip a week of shopping?!!

Sheesh....we decided to stop by two grocery stores this evening before coming home after eating dinner at the in-laws. It was like THIS was Labor Day weekend! I don't know where all these people came from...MI is quite far from the Gulf Coast, therefore, even though we have seen several news stores of displaced people coming here, it's not like I live in Houston or anything like that. Also, it's not as though I saw most of the basic goods already purchased and gone from the shelves...There were just many more cars in the parking lots and some of the items we were looking for were gone. Needless to say, I was annoyed. The one thing that REALLY pissed me off was the fact that we were going pretty light (express lane style) shopping. In and out. No need to lolly-gag or dilly-dally....Anyway, this friggin wannabe cholo clown with this milky chica with an Olajuwon throw-back on had like 32 items that apparantly they failed to see the sign above them and all of our heads that read "Self Check-Out, 1-12items." Plus, the idiot could not understand why the automated scanner (with a built in camera) kept giving an error message because he kept trying to put the contents he just bagged into his cart without paying yet..."Idiot, that's why the space next to the scanner is 2'X 2' and NOT meant to support more than 12small sized items"...His groupie kept making him look stupid...Anyway, we just stood there thinking of a 1000 other places we would rather be rather than watching this drama play out. There were four of these self check-out stations and we finally got up and got out of that joint...Man, we hit the other store and it was sardines up in there! We needed lemons, raspberries/blackberries, oats, margarine and some brownie mix...the lemons they had were junk, the brownie mix aisle looked like it was ransacked; no more left :( of course, the healthy oats were fully stocked; what a shocker.....A truck comes in tonight...I'll hit that store tomorrow and grab the missed items....A Rican and his lemons are almost important as a Rican and his eggs (pun definitely intended....ha).