Sigh, wasn't 2022 supposed to be better than that previous two years?
Guess not.
'I thought we might need this' My wife explained when she pulled out an pack roll of toilet paper from shopping a couple of weeks ago. Turns out she was bang on the credits as yesterday when I rolled into a nearby Coles, there wasn't a single sheet available anywhere. Unless you stocked up on tissues I guess.
Nope, just a long row of empty shelves as long as the eye could see. With enough bedding you could make that aisle the equivalent to one of the Japanese coffin hotels.
For me this was giving me flashbacks of early 2020 when the first 'stock up on toilet paper' madness took hold and I felt guilty holding onto a 12 pack in Aldi at the time. The sign on the shelves had said two maximum and even with half that amount, I felt like I was being scrutinised at the counter 'Oh he's part responsible for this shortage!' Actually no, the house was out of toilet paper. But thanks for jumping to conclusions so quickly.
Strangely it wasn't just the loo tickets that had run out, for some reason most of the packaged chicken had gone too. Those shelves were almost empty in comparison to the oodles of pork and other meats on offer. Is this the 2022 way of celebrating your victory in scoring some toilet paper before it all ran out? By having some kind of chicken party?
(And who keeps snapping up all the frozen basa fillets??)
Don't invite the neighbours though because if you get sick, finding out if you've got the spicy cough (aka Covid) means you're going to be stuck in a line at a drive through spicy cough clinic for roughly seven hours to take the test and then 72 hours to find out your result or you can take a rapid antigen test and-
No sorry, you can't do that either. Because they're simply not available.
Like toilet paper, they've been snapped after faster than you can say 'okay, so where can we buy these bloody RAT things?' Our local primary school gave our kids some and instructed them to use them twice a week towards the back end of last year. When numbers of those with the spicy one hadn't hit into the tens of thousands daily - but they're long gone. Now every chemist around town has to litter themselves with signs pointing out that they don't have any on board.
And like in my efforts of trying to sell my car, I'm sure they've copped a fair few idiots that didn't bother to read anything.
Apparently there was a local service station here in Albury also selling them? I'm looking forward to the day when you get a free RAT when you spend at least $50 on premium unleaded.
A week ago they were available on Catch.com but now they're gone. Given enough time they'll probably end up on Aliexpress but I'm hesitant on that idea - I want my test to tell me if I have Covid-19 or not and not if I'm expecting twins.
Sigh. Anyone know where I can buy a rat or two? It looks like it's going to be a looooong year already.
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