Lebanon fiasco

Went into Lebanon today to do a bit of shoppin. Got the cash we needed from the bank so we can take our son to Pizza Hut for his birthday on Sunday. He'll be the big 1-1 :-) Next we stopped to get gas at $2.17 per gallon. Then we stopped and got a couple more lotto tix. Next stop was the cig. store, which was the Conoco, but that particular one closed down. We think that's because they're going to be moving into the new station that's being built across the street from there. So we drove on. Got to another station, but their cigs were too expensive ('Basic's were more than 'name' brands), so we continued on to Wal-Mart. First of all, they were out of the big bags of the one brand of cat-food that all of our cats can eat with none of them getting sick. While waiting for someone to check in back for some that hadn't been moved out yet, we hear an announcement that they're having power outages around the store, and that all the stuff that is in a refrigeration unit is inaccessible because they want the doors to stay shut until after the power comes back on. Noticed that the milk area was completely blocked off (upside-down carts in front of the doors), so no milk. Also needed hamburgers, but before we even got there we saw that area completely blocked off as well (paper over everything that had meat in it). See how much blocking of the food they did, we figured it had been out a while and it didn't look like they expected it back on any time soon, so we got the few unrefrigerated stuff we needed and headed for the check-out register. While standing in-line, the power came back on. Figured that by the time they uncovered everything, we would've already been there too long, so we just paid and got out. Besides, the electric was flickering. Kind of nice only spending about $13 for a week's worth of stuff. *grin* We've got to run into Buffalo tomorrow, so we'll go to the small Wal-Mart there and get the cat food and some milk. Will wait to get hamburgers until next week sometime. There's going to be a thing called "Pioneer Days" happening in Buffalo tomorrow, and that's the original reason for going there. Other than that, a pretty nondescript day. *smile*