Dear Diary,

I would’ve hoped that my two-thousand, four-hundred, and fifty-seventh diary entry would be filled with mystery, intrigue, and romance, but quite sadly, it’s not. It’s just a dreadful, highly unfabulous explanation of my doomed state of being.

As soon as I found out that COVIB-19 was a pandemic, I was distraught, but the true trauma didn’t come until much later. In fact, it was just yesterday evening. I had recently tried to purchase more of my favorite sensitive coat soap, gloss shampoo, leave-in conditioner, moisturizer, makeup remover, ‘Hair Flare’ brand styling cream, and a few other basic things. I’d sent in my order for delivery-through the mail of course, since there’s no other way to order delivery-and I’d been shocked by their response. It was all out of stock!

I was so paralyzed by my shock and despair that I fainted onto a couch that had miraculously appeared beside me. After eating the remnants of an old carton of Vanilla Oat Swirl, I went to the sink to clean off my smeared mascara, but I was out of makeup remover!

I didn’t know what to do! I cried into my ultra-soft silk pillow until Opalescence batted at me aggressively with her paw.

“Mrrrrowr!” she meowed judgmentally.

“Oh Opalescence! Whatever will I do?” I said as I put my hoof to my forehead in a distressed manor. Opalescence rolled her little eyes and walked away.

At first I thought that she’d abandoned me. Can you imagine my own sweet, innocent little cat abandoning me in my time of need?! Luckily, I was wrong. Opalescence came back holding a newspaper in her mouth. Then, she jumped up onto my bed, and dropped it in front of me.

‘High-end Personal Hygiene Store Called ‘Glamorous You’ Promises To Restock: Next Shipment To Arrive Any Minute,’ I read from the cover.

Glamorous You was the store that I’d ordered from! Any minute?! I knew I needed to get going right away. All I had to do was grab my custom-made mask and anti-virus stilettos. It wasn’t as if I could restyle my hair or clean up my eyeshadow before I left. (I cried a bit more after realizing that.)

Before I knew it, I was on my way. When I got there, I was a horrible mess. Actually no. That wording doesn’t even come close to the reality. I was the epitome of messiness, the most messy I’d been since The Sisterhood Social. I looked absolutely horrid.

There were already a few dozen ponies at Glamorous You when I got there, including Lily Lace, Spoiled Rich, and even Inky Rose. They all recoiled at the sight of me, my hair sticking out in strange directions and my whole face covered with soggy makeup.

“What are you all looking at?” I asked angrily.

About an hour later, there were significantly less ponies waiting, and my right eye was starting to twitch. But, all the suffering was worth it when a few more hours later, at two in the morning, Lipstick Vanity came out of Glamorous You and made an announcement.

“Sorry for the delay everypony. The shipment came much later than expected. We’re fully restocked now, but-”

“Thank heavens!” I shouted, interrupting her. Lipstick Vanity looked at me for a second, taking in my disheveled appearance. The nerve! As if she could possibly understand the hardships that I was facing.

“You’re welcome to come in now, but please try not to buy more than you need. That’s why we went out of stock in the first place. Everypony has been stocking up on our products due to this pandemic. You-”

“Yes, darling. We get it. Now will you please just let us in? I need my essentials!” I called out. Lipstick Vanity was clearly getting annoyed now. She rolled her eyes at me. I couldn’t believe she would do that! Who knew that Glamorous You would have such dreadful customer service?

“Fine,” Lipstick relented, stepping away from the doorway. Before anypony else had the chance, I pranced in as fast as I could. Lipstick Vanity’s warning had given me a revelation. There were ponies who would take everything for themselves. I would like to think that ponies would be more generous than that, but I couldn’t be sure, so I had to get everything I could possibly need, before other ponies took it all.

I ran to the soap aisle, and found my regular soap relatively quickly. I usually only purchased one or two bars, but if it was going to be sold out for weeks because of greedy ponies, I needed to get more. Much more.

Once I had a few dozen bars in my shopping cart, I went to move towards the hair aisles, but then I saw another brand of soap that I’d been wanting to try for a while. If I didn’t try it now, there was a chance that I wouldn’t be able to try it for quite some time. I put one of those soap bars in my basket.

But wait. If I only got one, and I ended up liking it more than my regular soap, but couldn’t get more because it was out of stock, what would I do? I added more of that brand to my basket until I felt it was sufficient.

About twenty minutes later, the four or five other ponies who had waited for the shipment were glaring at me as I walked over to checkout with my four full carts. I couldn’t imagine why. I looked around the store, and saw that most of the products that I’d been worried would go out of stock were almost gone already. I couldn’t believe that just these few ponies could buy that much stuff. I glared right back at them.

Soon enough, I returned home. It’s almost three in the morning, and I just finished putting my stuff in my attic. Normally, I would put all of it in my bathroom, but I was surprised to find that I didn’t have anywhere near enough room.

Now, I’m going to take a much needed bath. Well, after I decide which of my five types of soap and nine types of shampoo to use of course.

Until tomorrow,

Rarity

Author's Note

Hey guys! Can you imagine getting through quarantine without Amazon? Talk about a nightmare...

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