I’ve been queuing for fish for over an hour now and I’m in sight of the

I told an old gentleman in the queue that it was one prawn each maximum and he looked very sad.
He has spent a while now complaining about the Chinese, so I feel less bad.
It’s only me and @TickHarris for Christmas Day so I don’t actually need that much seafood. But I don’t want to be the piscine version of the ready meal for one, so I might buy some dummy fish for cover.
*crayfish update*
Crayfish
are arriving at 1000 and anyone without a pre-order will have to wait. Ripples of indignation in the queue.
Crayfish

Luckily I’m only here for prawns
and I’ve heard there are more than three tonnes out back. It pays to have the prawn intel.

A lady in a fluoro COVID Marshall outfit is loving the Christmas Eve power-trip.
Man in the queue drinking a can of Carlsberg


I’m into the top five and I’m panicking cos I’ve forgotten the precise details of the Christmas menu. I might go rogue and buy some bizarre deep sea
beasts.

Man in front of me in the queue has just been told by his wife (on the phone) to get out of the queue now. No details of why.
Right, I’ve purchased prawns, kingfish (for sashimi) and barramundi (done in the w Chinese greens and XO). I also have toilet paper. It’s a Christmas miracle.