@anime_reference @0xabad1dea My father was in the Army Reserve, which meant that he was on active duty two weeks every summer. Which meant that we could use the military commissary for those two weeks. And so we would drive 45 minutes to take a 50-minute ferry across the lake to drive another 15 minutes to the Air Force base to fill up the car with cheap groceries. (Of course this was in the early 1980s when I was a teen and the cost of food was a much greater proportion of family income.)