With swine flu to the south of us, in California, and to the north of us, in Canada, I suppose it was inevitable. As of this writing there are 16 suspected cases of swine flu in Washington state. Nine of them are in my county.

I thought the prudent thing to do would be to pick up some hand sanitizer.  I guess I wasn’t the only one with that thought.

Do you see the empty top row?  That’s where the hand sanitizer used to be.  And here’s a closeup of the sign for that row: