In which I am Curious about The Gas Shortage, Furious at the Devil, and Loving my Veggies

Facebook today is all everyone's running out of gas.  But I haven't seen businesses closed because of the shortage.  Everything seems too be good.  Who knew that the hurricane would affect our lives in a secondary sort of way?  I still walk to work, so good there, but when will things get back to normal?  When will we be free of the shortage of gas?

Something really upsetting came out of my Facebook feed.  A boy who had been constantly abused and after he died was fed to pigs.  I really really really hated reading about this.  It reminded me of this kid I was taking care of while I was an infant teacher.  He had some bruises, so I brought it up to the director.  We asked the mother what was going on and she said they were burns.  They were most certainly not burns.  So I went and filed a report online with Child Protective Services.   They called and talked to me and said they were probably just a birthmark.  I don't know what happened to that kid, but he better not end up like this other kid.  It makes me want to call the CPS again to reemphasize what went on.  I was not very "with it" at that point in my life but I feel angry that the CPS people were trying to play it off.  What was the benefit of pretending these things didn't happen?   The kid could get seriously injured.  Seeing that article on that kid reopened that wound for me.  I still remember his name.  And he had a little sister.  They said that they had had some reports about that family before, so this wasn't new.  I was reading that there was a lot of reform for social services in the newspaper, but apparently, this isn't uniform, everywhere.

Moving on to a more happy topic, Whole Foods is about to become my favorite store ever.  Amazon lowering prices sounds like the best birthday present ever for this vegetarian.  I just wish there were more of them.  Or more Sprouts in strategic places.  We've been going to Kroger for produce, but the produce section is so small.  I feel guilty getting so much good food from the produce section and looking at the cheap prices.