Went to the store in what I think is the first time in a month

[conuly]

Not the supermarket, just the corner store. I needed ice cream. They had toilet paper, sugar (not powdered sugar, which I need to bake a birthday cake - or to frost it, anyway), and flour - but man, $3 for a shitty, loosely-wound off-brand of paper towels? $2 for a bag of chips which used to be $1? (Those chips aren't gonna drop back down when this pandemic ends, either. All the potato chip brands have been itching for an excuse to raise their prices for years.)

The possibly-mentally-ill (probably) cashier sounded alarmingly rational when he spoke about current events, too. He doesn't usually, so I wonder what that says about the current timeline.