Last evening at 6 PM, I posted the previous message, lamenting the absence of canned Canada Dry Ginger Ale in Los Angeles markets. At 10:30, just four and a half hours later, my phone rang and a mysterious woman's voice said, "Look on your front step." I did…and found two 12-packs of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. In cans.
There was a note from the owner of the mysterious voice giving her phone number. I called and found myself talking to a lady friend from almost 20 years ago…someone I haven't spoken to for at least ten. Turns out, she's a regular browser of this site and she read my plaintive cry just before her regular shopping trip to a nearby Ralph's Market. While there, she decided to complain to the manager on my behalf and he explained to her that they stopped carrying 6-packs of Canada Dry Ginger Ale a few weeks ago…but that they've been waiting for, and had just received, the new 12-packs. (They didn't tell me this at my Ralph's when I inquired.) So she bought two, swung by here and deposited them on the porch of a house in which she hoped I still lived.
So I now have cans of Canada Dry Ginger Ale in the fridge…and I know where to get more when those are gone. Thank you, Sherry.