Subversive Behavior

There has been something of a return to normalcy in the milk delivery world that I inhabit.  Following the snowstorms and the milk-hoarding panic that accompanied them, well, actually... we got more snowstorms and another milk-hoarding panic.  It has been a pretty busy start to the year for me, to say the least.

For the last week or so, however, things have been relatively calm.  That's a start.  So now we can abandon my earlier call for mercy and you folks can start buying plenty of milk again.  In point of fact, I only had one load this past Sunday.  Sundays have almost always been busier for me, but my employer has hired a few more drivers in recent weeks to keep up with the demand from some new business that we've acquired.  In addition to southeastern Michigan and the Toledo area, we now cover a pretty good chunk of northern Ohio as well.

I was in Ohio for that one run on Sunday.  I had three stores in Toledo, one in Holland, one in Waterville, and one in Bowling Green.  That's six stores on one trailer, if you're keeping score.  That's a royal pain in the ass as well, in case you care to know.  By the time you get done with the first few stores, you end up with half a trailer full of empties and half a trailer full of milk.  I caught a break when the Holland store hadn't received its grocery shipment yet.  This left me with enough extra space in the stock room to rotate my empties to the nose of the trailer and put the milk for my last two stops on the tailgate.  Good deal.

By the time I got home late at night, I was a little tired and a lot thirsty.  I knew I had a few beers left in the fridge, so into the kitchen I went.  After spending eight hours delivering milk to Kroger stores, I opened the door and saw that my brother had done some shopping.

That subversive little shithead apparently buys his milk at Meijer, not Kroger. Just another case of The Man tryin' to keep a brother down.

Oddly enough, as I was wrapping up this post, I received a phone call with my travel plans for tomorrow.  My last stop will be Store #442 in Northville.  At least someone is still buying milk at Haggerty & Six Mile rather than Haggerty & Eight Mile.