(04-17-2020, 01:06 PM)Dartz Wrote: Jeans are getting tighter. It's not the virus that's weighing down my breathing.I know this feeling. I've been out of the house three times this past week, the most I've been out since the mayor first issued his shelter-in-place order. Thursday, I went to pick up a couple of orders, one at Staples, and one at Home Depot. The Home Depot is next to Walmart, so I considered doing some shopping there, and then I saw the line. I decided to go home instead.
Friday, I tried to go to the post office:
Having already left the house, I decided that rather than waste the effort, I'd go to a nearby supermarket to get some necessary shopping done. Besides, they have an ATM for my bank and I needed to make a deposit.
Yesterday, I made a point of getting out early enough actually get my package mailed. I thought about going to Walmart but decided that if the line was anything like it was Thursday, it wouldn't be worth the effort.
I should note here that part of my calculus re: Walmart is based on the fact that the local transit authority has cancelled (I estimate) around 75% percent of its bus routes for the duration of the lockdown and where I used to be able to catch a bus to Walmart less than a block from my home, I now have to walk several blocks. Also, before the transit authority pruned the routes, the buses were carrying few enough passengers for social distancing to work. Now, not so much.