You go to the store, and you can’t buy the thing you want to buy at the price you’re used to pay, because they are out.
Next to it – an acceptable substitute, for a little more, and that is in stock.
You might want to buy it. Because next week, they may be out of that as well. And there you’ll stand, with money, and nothing to buy with it.
And — c’mon. Don’t get down to your last roll of toilet paper before you add toilet paper to your shopping list. You know better. Yes you do.
Writes all the things. Most of the things never write back.