Bad news. They used the ’s’ word on the radio.
They used it on TV, too.
They used it in newspapers.
On websites.
In Tweets. FB postings.
It’s out there. No taking it back.
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Yes, well, so what, BeninSC?! They use it in thousands of places throughout the country for months! No big deal. What’s the big deal inSC, then?!
Hey, I agree with you. It SHOULDN’T be a big deal. Things would be BETTER if it weren’t such a big deal. Safer. Better in economic terms. Healthier.
But, there it is.
My brother-in-law is from Salt Lake City. (Except perhaps for a period when he lived in Charleston, SC, he has experienced, lived in and dealt with snow every year of his life.
But not South Carolina snow.
He and my sister planned a visit some years back. They were flying in to our local airport. Snow was in the forecast.
I cautioned them before they left SLC. You just don’t understand what it’s like. People go a bit nuts (to the extent that they are not already there, in this very red portion of the country.
Part of it is the rules, I said.
One of the rules is, when they use the ’s’ word on the radio, you have to slam on your brakes, and swerve into a ditch.
He thought I was exaggerating.
After they landed, they rented a car to drive out to our location. The approach road to the airport is two lanes, beautifully landscaped, immaculately maintained. Leaving the airport property, it merges into the local interstate highway, en route toward town.
And there, on the right, before making that merge, he saw a car in the ditch, waiting for a wrecker to come pull them out.
Not the first flake had fallen.
It’s crazy in the stores, too. The local paper wrote an article about it today, the mania about buying milk and bread, after the ’s’ word has been published, in whatever medium.
(I would contend that it isn’t JUST milk and bread, it is toilet paper, too. That just doesn’t get the same air play. Lower glamour quotient, ya know.)
It doesn’t happen that one of these storms is forecast, without the locusts descending and utterly stripping the shelves of those items.
The article today delved into it.
In an effort to find a plausible, psychological reason for the phenomena, HowStuffWorks writer Laurie L. Dove cited New York City-based psychotherapist Lisa Brateman's theory.
Brateman says the compulsive desire to stockpile perishables items like bread and milk isn't based on logical behavior.
Not logical behavior. Hmm.
That’s safe. What here IS?!
I have lived in the South almost all of my life. I don’t have particular insights, perhaps because those items are the last things I would get when a storm comes (and the first things gone from the shelves. I’m not going to get into Black Friday-like wrestling matches for milk and bread and toilet paper). Maybe if I bought them, for once, I’d feel the compulsion. Not going to happen.
My theory is that it is all used in some perverse form of papier-mâché. Mostly I try to not think about it too much. And to never listen for the ’s’ word when the cooler seasons arrive.
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