Is an infinitesimal titanic bulk possible?

[todayiamadaisy]

I came into the kitchen at five to eight this morning, made breakfast, checked my emails and flipped through the paper before looking at the clock again and seeing that it was still five to eight. Only it wasn't, obviously. It was considerably later than that.

At work today there was talk of People From Melbourne making bus trips to the City by the Sea, a six hour round trip, to visit our supermarkets and buy our toilet paper. The cheek of it! We were outraged. Dangerously close to declaring it a local shop for local people. (Although it does make sense, in that there are a lot of empty shelves but no-one actually knows anyone who is stockpiling it.)

One of my colleagues said she'd heard that cat food was going to be the next thing to sell out. Heaven help us. I'd rather run out of toilet paper than food for Alistair. I'm sure I could devise alternatives to toilet paper if I had to, but Mister Cat is set in his ways. His favourite food is Fancy Feast's Chicken Feast Classic Pate, which is only available at one small independent supermarket and only in a box of twelve. I have a week's worth left, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to get another box, just in case.

It turns out my colleague was right, in that most of the dry cat food shelves were bare. However, the shelf of Chicken Feast Classic Pate boxes was full. Alistair must be the only cat in town who eats it. I bought two boxes of it and some batteries for the kitchen clock and went on my merry way.