@Flick Hope you can get lots of money in the mattress!
@sullybiker You mock, but my “they’re going to lock us down tomorrow” last-minute shopping trip resulted in a lettuce, a bottle of gin and a razor. Rural habits.
@Flick I sort of love this
@sullybiker A few weeks later, I was selling eggs, flour and yeast in the village car park ;)
@Flick My slightly nutty survivalist neighbour was very upset that he was ready for anything but a "Goddamned Chinese virus" and seemed to be trying to figure out how he could shoot covid
@sullybiker I am so glad we don’t have the gun culture here. Me, I found being ready for getting snowed in and not wanting to have to drive to the shops because you’ve run out of something was pretty handy.
@Flick I've got used to it in a decade or so of being here. I only really started to think about it during Covid because people got a bit crazy. That said, nothing happened locally.
@Flick @sullybiker Apart from not going home or to town type things it was carry on as usual here, up and down to the Co op, there was a problem with home delivery, it became impossible to book one, for Asda or Morrisons, no idea how those who were managed it, I gave up, to be fair to the Co, over priced pain in the arse that they are etc, they did not do badly at all re goods available.
@HebrideanHecate @Flick I think we had one week where it was hard to find anything, then they bounced back pretty fast.
@sullybiker @HebrideanHecate Most things were ok, I think, but flour, eggs and yeast were a while getting back to normal. And loo roll.
@Flick @HebrideanHecate We didn't get the bog roll wars here, but you could not get bottled water in forever. This, coincidentally is one of the rainiest states in the USA.
@sullybiker @HebrideanHecate What really pissed me off were the photos a couple of weeks later of bins full of the stuff people had panic bought and then just not used, including stuff in tins ffs.
@Flick @sullybiker Yes, that made me very angry too.
@sullybiker Actually, I probably only have a hundred or so rolls, but it’s ok: I’m going to be driving past Costco in a few weeks.