My release day was the best day being in county jail, but the second best days were every Thursday because those were the days we got our store. We would get these order sheets and put our order in Tuesday or Wednesday. There were times when store would come late on Friday, which was awful. On canteen day any inmate that would leave the pod for medical or anything else would be asked if they saw the canteen on the dock outside. This went on all day until it had been spotted. They put your commissary items in a brown paper bag stapled at the top, then loaded all of the paper bags into these grey wheel carts with a bunch of locks on the outside. You can order sodas, chips, candy bars, hygiene items, and various other things on canteen. My favorite thing was the Mrs freshleys grand iced honey bun. I also liked getting starburst and sour patch kids, but they were very expensive. I remember one particular time in D7 where all four pods had their canteen carts outside the door and as soon as they got to our pod to roll call/distribute the store, there was a security override. One guy got his huge 4 bag order then they shut it down and locked it up. We didn't get our items until the next day, and you better believe that gentleman that was served was selling off all his store with sky high interest rates.
Today I am grateful that I can go to the store whenever I want, that I don't have to lose privilege of getting my store based on someone else's bad behavior. I'm grateful to have literally tens of thousands of different things to choose from at the grocery store vs the same 30 things every week.
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