Government Shutdown? REALLY?

When I heard on Friday, that the Federal Government paid out Welfare checks and then heard that the military did not get their pay, I KNEW that the Federal Government was NOT going to close.  Yet we all sat around Friday night and Saturday morning glued to our TVs waiting to hear whether or not our government closed their doors.  Even though I knew in my heart that the Fed doors were not closing, I still had to sit and watch it with my own two eyes and listen with my own two ears to make sure.  The panic in all the faces of the people I work with, hearing the little old lady in the grocery store line who was buying up hundreds of dollars of staples like rice, water, flour, canned goods and the sort, stand there and preach to me about how the big depression is about to happen and she was going to be ready.  I felt embarrased as I had merely bought a loaf of bread and some vegetable oil.  As I listened to her and looked at my two items, I wondered, "How would I be able to live on bread and oil?"

Bread and Oil, Looks pretty good to me!