It Is Snowing Here Again in Spanish

His parents wanted ane of their engagement nights, as our son and girl-in-law call them, which was fine with us; it's ever a treat to have piddling guy, their 8-year-erstwhile, have charge of our firm for a weekend. Or whatever other time, day and night and preferably plural. Ours is smarter than your grandson, I must say, and intuitively senses when bad weather is approaching. No need for advisories from the Telly weathercasters, or a paper's front folio warning of an approaching forepart that would produce front page photos, non later than Monday.

"Grandad, I think we should get to the grocery store," he said early Saturday afternoon.

They may lack his ability to apprehend foul weather, his elders, just by the fourth dimension my homo and I reached our neighborhood supermarket hundreds of them had tuned in, or read upwards, and we had to circle the parking lot a half dozen times earlier finding a space.

"Those cars don't have handicapped stickers," he said, disapproving the vehicles of a dozen or and then scofflaws. "We don't exercise that, exercise we?" Uh, no. No, nosotros don't. Never. At least in daylight. The rush of shame.

Masked against the pandemic, to the vestibule do the two amigos venture. Not a cart available. None of the big ones, nor any of the smaller version. Nor any of the baskets. The place is that decorated. I recall to follow a shopper leaving the store to capture her cart at her auto but before I can offer my help a clerk steers a cavalcade of the buggies in from the lot. Thus enabled do my compatriot and I begin our expedition. He steers, careful to avert sideswiping another cart, mindful of the potential for a mid-aisle head-on collision. Accidents happen, every bit when two shoppers (not u.s.a.) draw a dewdrop on the final, very last bundle of hotdog buns on the shelf. Daggers from the optics, merely no blood spilled.

And no shortage of — hotdogs. The coolers were filled with packages of franks and link sausage of every make and variety, from high-cholesterol fatties to the ultra-lean; from the juicy Cajun andouilles to the juicer bratwursts. Nigh anything that would fit on a long bun was to be had. Except the long buns were all gone now. (How many hotdogs have I eaten rolled in a piece of plain white staff of life?)

"Why don't they cook hamburgers?" the kid asks. I don't know. Too cold to grill outside? What'south wrong with the kitchen skillet? Nosotros circle back to the bread aisle and, yep, enough burger buns to go along a one-half dozen fast food bulldoze-throughs in concern for a calendar week. Then, again on a hunch, to the canned meat section. Gaping holes where the canned chili was supposed to exist. Paper-thin boxes that dispensed chili powder — void. To the meat counter over again, and empty spaces where only that morn rested compress-wrapped pounds of footing beefiness, basis round, ground whatsoever. On "Sodium Boulevard," as I term it, the Fritos are all just gone, as are the Cheetos salvage for the flamin' hot, heartburn-guaranteed diversity. The chili and chili dog mosaic, complete.

Two guys, assessing the culinary imperatives of a customs in the shadow of a wintertime tempest. It kept the states out of the puddle hall.

And we did all right, the two of united states of america. Somehow our swain grocery shoppers had overlooked the frozen pizza department, and then we scored four thin crust, all meat, extra cheese artery cloggers. Back to the sale lane for a couple numberless of apparently old white potato chips. Well, a third with some seasoning — jalapeno and lime, I think. Which would require some ice cream to soothe the tummy afterward. A half gallon of chocolate flake cookie dough, some other of strawberry. That ought to do it.

Okay, we got some milk and eggs and some apples, a pair of pears and some avocados (for their cholesterol fighting qualities). I'd say we did okay, I said, as the kid and I loaded the car. "What'southward Mamie going to say?" he wondered. I told him to brand sure his seat chugalug was fastened.

By my strictly anecdotal reckoning, this happens about in one case a decade: A blast of sleet and snow and possibly water ice in such measure that much of the state is immobilized, or should be. It invites those who ought to know better to set aside audio nutrition. The snowfall and ice volition disappear in its good time. The extra inches to the Arkansas waistline — well, that'south another story.

Dorsum home, "Granddad, nosotros forgot to get cookies."

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Source: https://www.swtimes.com/story/opinion/2021/02/21/barnes-snow/6783809002/

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