I was in a supermarket with Adam. As we were remarking about their very impressive display of fresh herbs (the herbs were actually growing in the store and you could pick off a few leaves to take home), all of a sudden the rows of trees that made up the divisions between aisles started getting uprooted and flying around, disaster movie style. A hurricane had descended upon the store. People were running around frantically, grabbing cases of water and cans of beans. I had something in my hands that I was determined to purchase, so I started making my way to the registers. The storm really started picking up though and giant trees were flying all over the place, so we decided it was probably best to come back later. On the way out we saw a display of apple juice though, it was on sale for a really good price so I picked up a bottle and again tried to make my way to the registers. This time we went along a different path to the checkout, there were fewer trees and they were much smaller. The path also lead to the exit, and right as we started getting close to an available checkout lane the storm really picked up so we just ran out of the store, setting off the alarms because I hadn't paid for the apple juice.
In the parking lot things were much calmer. There were ambulances treating the injured, and Michael Douglas was walking around trying to adjust his tuxedo. I think he was playing John Kerry. Around that time Rush Limbaugh got on the store's PA system and started talking about how he was there for the victims of the disaster, while John Kerry went off to his fancy tuxedo party. Apparently John Kerry was running for election against Limbaugh, not Bush. We didn't stick around to hear where Kerry nee Douglas was heading in his tux, but it seemed perfectly logical to want to get the hell out of that store to me. The trees really were flying all the hell over the place.
We made our way back to my car where we saw more random destruction including someone riding a bicycle where the front wheel was bent in half. He didn't seem to notice. As we got into the car my cell phone rang.
Posted by joshua at September 22, 2004 06:19 AM