Forecast Affected Retail Transaction Syndrome

It amazes me how people around here behave when the weather person on TV or radio says the word, "snow."

Working in a super market, it directly impacts my life.

It seems to me that many people go crazy.

Among the front end employees at the store, we, well, most, but not exclusively, I, call it Forecast Affected Retail Transaction Syndrome. Or, F.A.R.T.S..

As a follower of Jesus, it's difficult for me to be patient and loving to people who are behaving thoughtlessly, giving into some sort of demented and depraved hoarding instinct. It takes a ton of self-denial.

Clearly, this trait, so common in human behavior, is proof of our fallen, sinful nature.

"Honey, Joe Calhoun on Channel 8 is saying we may get 1-3 inches of snow tomorrow. I'm gonna run down to the store and pick up some milk and bread and, while I'm there, $200 worth of other stuff,...just in case."

And, like zombies, they come in droves!

This past week, Joe was predicting a small snow Thursday night and and mixture of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain for Saturday into early Sunday.

At the store, F.A.R.T.S. started on Tuesday afternoon and continued into Saturday. Saturday morning it was Category 5!

FIVE CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF F.A.R.T.S!

Every customer in the store was blank-eyed. And, half of them were complaining that everyone ELSE thinks they need to rush out to the store as soon as snow is in the forecast.

Crazy, man, crazy!

Exhausting.