Word: hoardes
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...even be true that other drugs in plentiful supply work just as well for anthrax as Cipro does. If so, there's no reason to hoard Cipro but also no reason people shouldn't hoard Cipro if they want to. Whether valid or not, the government's own concern about a Cipro shortage is why the government wants to persuade us there's no cause for concern about a Cipro shortage. That, plus the worry that germs develop resistance to antibiotics that are used promiscuously...
Part of the thrill of reading his tales of family life as one of six children is constantly wondering, Can that possibly be true? Does his father really hoard expired foodstuffs and eat them rotten? Is his brother Paul truly the profane white trash Sedaris describes? Could his mother have actually been that surly? Where other memoir writers, even the funny ones, slink to the sentimental, Sedaris heads the other way. And yet he portrays these characters with unjudging sympathy. He's tender about them...
...differently just because my day job has changed. I'm trying to give the more down-to-earth vibe. I'll go to the mall, and I'll have 20 minutes to do Christmas shopping, and I just won't have time to be a celebrity. But people will hoard around me, and think I'm a jerk because I simply don't have time to sign autographs. I want to be like, dude, I only have 20 minutes to shop...