There is one grocery store in my area with an underground garage. I think they get a fair amount of additional biz from having that.
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Absolutely. That would be amazing.
I actually used to live really close to it. Like blocks and such that I did not have to cross a major street. After a bad snowstorm used to do the brush off the front and back and mirrors just enough to get by and go over there and do a nice long and leasurely shopping trip while waiting for the snow to melt. It was not specifically heated but completely underground and between that and bleed off from the underground entrance and exit it would not get below freezing and likely more like 40f.
You know what? I just realized there's a fantastic grocery store downtown in my city that is in the mall and has an underground garage. I don't know why I didn't think of it.
That happened to me the other day, while I was waiting for my Chinese takeout order to be ready. I was stuck there with two other people waiting on their order, and a small boy who took shelter there after he got caught in the storm on his electric scooter.
I felt like I was in some kind of sitcom bottle episode
That is very sitcom like!
Go out anyway. Your skin is waterproofing enough.
I hate being in an air conditioned store soaking wet was my thing, it wasn't all that warm yesterday.
I haven't used an umbrella my entire life, as rain never bothered me. May have something to do with growing up in coastal northern Norway, where sideways rain makes umbrellas useless.
I know I'm 21+ hours late, but you could have worn your reusable shopping bags as a hat and protected yourself.
I just have grocery buckets.
Never heard of grocery buckets
Really? They are big plastic buckets with handles, rather than dragging a bunch of bags, you can fit most stuff into a bucket or two. They sell them at the grocery stores here.
I've been there... Hope that it'll stop soon if it's still pouring
Eventually I just steeled myself and got it and did my shopping soaking wet in the air conditioning and it was miserable LOL.
We got hit in the NE part of the Midwest USA a couple hours ago. It was fierce, and gave us a couple of brief power outages. (I'm very thankful there, as a local outage last summer lasted almost 24hrs)
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I do dig it! Thank you.
I finally got out of my car and shopped soaking wet and miserable. Ugh.
Should've skipped church and shopped early. Could put that 10% tithe toward actual things you need.