Garlic

I had a great night out last night, heard some great music with some of my favorite people in the whole wide world. Today I was supposed to go over to a friend's house for dinner, but they had to cancel at the last minute as the host was not feeling well. So, since it's kind of a gloomy day I decided to make some chili to warm up the innards. Went shopping for some last minute supplies, not at my normal store. And, can you believe this...they were out of garlic. How the hell can a store run out of garlic? It's not like it spoils rapidly...christ it keeps for weeks. And it's not the sort of thing that stores have runs on..."Please give me 120 cloves of garlic...and all your lupines." Stupid store. I had to buy some minced garlic in a jar...hardly sufficient.
Oh well, the pot is simmering on the stove...and it smells good enough. One makes due. City grocery stores suck though.