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Borrowing from the comments on my Facebook post of this article:

"Nextdoor is the 'Oops! All Comments' of the internet."

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*waves hi from an anti-hunger nonprofit*

We are definitely busy right now, though mercifully not as busy as we were in a lot of 2020.

If you want to help, especially as we get into the holiday season, which is traditionally very busy regardless of *gestures broadly*, plug your zip code in here and donate to or volunteer with the food bank that pops up!

https://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

Last night I had to serve my family fettuccine and my little girl looked at me with tears in her eyes and asked me why we weren't eating bucatini anymore and I had to explain to her how the socialists had won. Dark times my friends.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

I *really* want to print this out and nail it to the door of some of my neighbors, Martin Luther in 1517 style.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

I am also a person who loves going to the grocery store. I go up and down every aisle when I do my big trip every other week just in case I see something new I want to try. Can't get enough of it.

Not placing periods at the end of sentences in text messages however is a buffoonery I cannot abide. Language has conventions, Mr. Book.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

Are we going to acknowledge that the entire piece talks about Kroger but that is clearly a Meijer bread aisle? ;)

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

One of the meals that's in my usual rota (thos beans) casually requires a specific kind of beans I order from Greece, and I've never not been able to get them, but sure, food supply chains are under attack.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

Can we talk about how we're in a golden age for apples? There were red, "golden" and green apples when I was a kid. It wasn't THAT long ago. I swear.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

This Kroger fails to meet my needs. THAT Kroger will love me better, and it will break the first Kroger's heart.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

When I try to explain to my kids what the grocery store produce section used to look like in the winter in the days before NAFTA, they look at me like I have three heads. You're darn right that the modern agricultural supply chain is a miracle. One fraught with other issues but an impressive achievement nonetheless.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

"You should not end those texts with periods. It feels unnaturally curt. I know you will, and I cannot do anything about that."

Look, it was all fun and games when were mocking these Nextdoor people. But let's not lump in well-meaning texters whose feelings may actually matter.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

You know the funny thing about this person is that growing up visiting more than one grocery store was the norm for my family and my friends. Yes, there were some that only shopped at one store, but it was quite normal to go to Big Bear, Phar-Mor on one trip. Even today, I could visit 3 stores on any given shopping trip. And it's fair to get upset if say one of the stores goes out of business that had the best grocery bakery because of mismanagement from corporate, but you get over it.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

I work in cat rescue and getting the right cat food for whatever various picky-ass ungrateful set of foster cats I have in my house at any particular moment can be a bit of a hassle.

There do seem to be some supply chain issues affecting cat food.

So I sometimes catch myself griping when it’s hard to find a specific can of grain-free grilled duck pate and rice with gravy, etc etc etc. But one can take a deep breath and look around and see that there are actually 47 kinds of cat food available. It’s irritating none of my cats will readily eat the ones currently available, but, you know, PERSPECTIVE.

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

My middle class suburb is in the same Nextdoor designation as the >$1 million houses a few miles away, so mixed in with the normal petty stuff, we get rich people problems.

An all-caps rant from a distraught person who had to put down one of their horses (IT WAS LIKE FAMILY) because someone heard the noises of putting down said horse and called the cops for animal abuse (IN OUR TIME OF PAIN, YOU CALL THE COPS! ON *US*! WE PAY TAXES YOU KNOW!)

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Nov 10, 2021Liked by Scott Hines

There are four next door posts, per my local NC feed:

1. Petty personal nonsense

2. Petty political nonsense

3. Whose dog is this?

4. Is this a copperhead?

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Are there annoyances? Yes. Have I had to go to a couple of other stores to get things for my son's school lunch? Yes. Did I do this largely because that small amount of effort saves me a massive headache each morning? Also yes.

Improvise, adapt, overcome. It's not that hard. Well, it shouldn't be.

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