It's Like a Locust Plague

 

This is just getting to the point I am about to snap. Seems like for a good 20 miles around The Small-Hold everything is just stripped bare these days. There are lines everywhere or empty shelves after you wait in the lines. The three little gas stations are putting bags on their pumps more often than not. The nearest fast food places with drive through lanes are barely worth waiting at and three times now the lines were short enough I decided to wait only to have them give my order to the car in front of me that drove off with it.

Just friggin locust devouring everything around these days. 

I cannot even give any remotely accurate observations of shortages locally cause everything is out of stock due to all these new people flooding in.

Of course all this goes down right when we enter what many are calling the worst economic downturn of our time so you know there ain't one bit of anything business-wise getting built now for years around here. Just more locust housing.

I stopped in at the local gas station this morning on my way to work and finally just gave up after 30 minutes in line to get gas. I just drove on into the nearest medium sized city 20 miles away. Every place is just packed to the gills now and every employee says they are too busy to do anything regardless.

Looks like I am just going to have to adjust 40+ years of routine habits and go back to the way it was out here when I was a teenager. Make sure I stock up every time I go to town and don't forget to adjust my definition of a town while I am at it. Cause I ain't getting anything nearby once I am back out here.

Unfortunately it is too late to flee somewhere sane now. 

I feel like some character from a Heinlein novel these days to be honest. Sans the incest proclivity anyway.

I tell ya though I haven't thought of those old novels in years I may have to reread a few now.

I read the other day that something like 36% of all the loans produced for those silly little rock climber side by side things over the last year are now in repo status. Since every new house they put up out here seemed to come with one maybe the houses will get repoed by the banks and then sit empty and fall apart eventually. Not that I wish hard times on anyone but all these people are really making the lifestyle I loved so much a scarce commodity around here these days.

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