Ten Cats by Graham Harrop for October 12, 2021

From yesterday’s comments about poor delivery services – we have a lot of trouble with that around here. It’s FedX, UPS, Amazon and the postal service. All of them are delivering packages to the wrong address. My next door neighbor was expecting a package once. She got a message that the package had been delivered, but it was delivered to my house, not hers. We both have visible house numbers on our houses, but that didn’t stop them from delivering to the wrong house. A local Facebook page is always getting posts from people asking if a package was delivered to their house by mistake. I realize that delivery drivers are human and capable of making mistakes, but this is ridiculous! It’s happening far too much.

And even deliveries to stores are a big issue. We barely got any Halloween stuff in our store and we’ve been told not to expect any more to come in. With Halloween just 3 weeks away, it is pretty normal not to have any more coming in, but we should have gotten a ton more stuff than we have. We have plenty of candy, but very few costumes. Especially boy’s costumes. Not much of anything else, either. And we were even told if we need lights or other items for Christmas we should buy them now because we don’t know how much more we’ll be getting. Usually by this time, our Christmas aisles are filled. Not so this year. And I’m having an awful time finding my Friskies canned cat food (the pate kind) which I use to treat my cats at bedtime. My oldest cats, Fluffy and Dexter were getting too skinny so they need the canned food to put on some weight.

They said on the news tonight that deliveries were being delayed, but they urged people not to start hoarding toilet paper, canned soup and bottled water like they did last year. I think that warning NOT to hoard is just the trigger they need to start hoarding again. Be prepared for lots of empty store shelves.