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I wish Meijer would start requiring masks and I'd go there more. It's my favorite mass retailer to shop at and they have the best produce of any mass retailer in my area.

I had to go to Kroger for a prescription and decided instead of using the drive through to just go in the store and do my weekly grocery shopping there since I got some good coupons in the mail this week instead of the local upscale store I've been going to since this started. BIG mistake. Wish I would have spent the extra money and time and just used the drive through for my script and went to the grocery store I've been going to. They didn't have arrows on the floor restricting it to one way traffic (not that people pay any attention to them anyway) and a lot of people didn't have masks on and weren't staying six feet away and I noticed it was the ones with no masks on just walking right by people not honoring the six feet rule. The local store I like to go to requires masks of all customers and so does Costco and I'm going to jsut stick to stores that have that policy in place. I don't know why they don't issue an executive order requiring masks in all stores. One thing I'm finding annoying is buying produce. I've noticed others have been able to get the bags to come apart but I've always had to wet my finger tips to get the bags to come apart they have in the produce section which I don't want to do anyway and is impossible to do with a mask on. The local grocery store I like to go to told me last weekend I'm not the only one with that issue and they will put loose produce in separate plastic bags but they didn't do that at Krogthetto for me.

St. Catherines street in the gay village. It's been a while since I've been there but last time I was there it was still very cruisey. Lots of young escorts that weren't afraid to approach people on the street.

Last time I was in Montreal they still had a good street scene.

Agree, if you have the money to hire, you should have an emergency fund. However, if someone loses their job that emergency fund will be going to pay necessary expenses and they probably won't spend the money to hire an escort. I have been fortunate enough to not suffer a loss in income and have a decent amount saved but if I lost my job I sure wouldn't be hiring. Same with escorts. Full time escorts with no savings also scare me A lot of times it's all under the table money with no overhead.

Nope. I'm not paying my cleaning lady anymore or the guy that cuts my hair anymore and they both had a lapse in income. Uber drivers are losing a ton of money and I don't expect to pay them more. A lot of Doctors and dentists have experience severe decline in business or have closed their practices for over a month and I'm sure as hell not expecting them to raise their rates. Restaurants are really suffering due to this and a lot are offering great specials and free delivery now. Like restaurants, I'm sure a lot of people are going to be hesitant to see an escort for a while. And a lot of their clients will have experienced job losses or loss in income. If they want to raise their rates fine, but I think it's a foolish move.

Not so much with Amazon but have been having some issues with the USPS on priority mail packages being held up. I ordered something from an amazon seller and it's been stuck in Detroit for over a week now and have another package I ordered from another company that has been held at the USPS Pittsburg sorting center for almost a week.

Did my weekly shopping today. Bought some Brats at the farmers market and she used to charge $6 and today it was $8.75, huge jump. The grocery store only had organic ground beef and I saw from a facebook friend from my hometown yesterday Wendy's ran out of hamburgers (he said that would be like going to Starbucks and them being out of coffee). Hope this doesn't mean beef will be horded next.

I wanted a fuchsia one:) They might be fun to have if bars are ever allowed to reopen and people want to wear a face covering

Mr. S. now has masks with the appropriate hanky colors LOL. But I see they sold out already LOL. Not sure how you can tell if someone is top/bottom or dom/sub like you can with a hanky since you have to cover the whole face. https://www.mr-s-leather.com/promo/face-mask?sc_src=email_355151&sc_lid=21740932&sc_uid=FVB1ePRiGz&sc_llid=14012&sc_eh=53a3bf36065dd9741

Mr. S. now has masks with the appropriate hanky colors LOL. But I see they sold out already LOL. Not sure how you can tell if someone is top/bottom or dom/sub like you can with a hanky since you have to cover the whole face. https://www.mr-s-leather.com/promo/face-mask?sc_src=email_355151&sc_lid=21740932&sc_uid=FVB1ePRiGz&sc_llid=14012&sc_eh=53a3bf36065dd9741

I think they are getting slammed with orders from people like us that want to stay at home and I'm sure they are short staffed with not only all the orders but they have also had a number of people getting sick at their warehouses and I'm sure some employees are refusing to come in for safety reasons.

I think they are getting slammed with orders from people like us that want to stay at home and I'm sure they are short staffed with not only all the orders but they have also had a number of people getting sick at their warehouses and I'm sure some employees are refusing to come in for safety reasons.

I received an email from Costco yesterday that effective 5/4 they will be back to their normal store hours and everyone will be required to have a face covering. I've been avoiding big boxes since this has started and my membership at Costco renews in June and was considering cancelling it since I'm getting no use out of it right now but may renew and consider going there next week if they are requiring face masks. The local grocery store I've been going to since this started has required them for a couple weeks and wish more stores would. I don't know why anyone has an issue with wearing one in a store. They protect other customers and the employees that are forced to work during this. On one of the news websites that reported it a couple people were complaining that it violated their rights and they were refusing to shop at Costco and it was going to hurt their bottom line. This new policy may get people like me who are avoiding big boxes to finally go shopping there again so they will be getting some more revenue there. And if this policy saves even one employee from catching it then it more than makes up for the lost revenue of the pissed off shoppers. I've noticed my grocery spending has gone up considerably since I've been shopping at the local, more upscale market, than when I was shopping at Kroger before this happened but my safety is worth the added costs and driving ten miles to get there. My sister and her fiance still shop like crazy (which pisses me off since she still lives at home and my dad is 80 with heart conditions and my mom is 79 with a few health issues) and she tell me hardly any shoppers at Walmart have masks on and don't pay attention to the one way arrows and don't stand six feet away but noticed at more upscale places like Whole Foods and the grocery store I like to go (it's in one of the wealthier suburbs and isn't accessible by the bus line and they don't take EBT or WIC) that cater to a wealthier clientelle that people seems to be more responsible about social distancing and wearing masks and the stores that cater to a more upscale demographic seem to be a lot better stocked. Not sure if it's that demographic is more responsible and concerned or if it's just because they don't have the huge amount of customers a big box has.

At my church's vestry zoom meeting last month our priest had lost a husband of a good friend of her and her wife's to Corona over the weekend and she said she is sure that everyone will know someone that died from it before it's over, I sure hope she's wrong. I"m sure we all know people that have it and are just asymptomatic. I know two people just casually that have died here from it from work and both were ironically big time Trump supporters. The one was the head of our republican headquarters and the other one was George Voinovich's aid in our local office. No one close to me has died from it and I hope it remains that way. A good friend who lives in texas was home visiting family in NJ a month ago and caught it. He came home to take care of his mom since he was laid off and his sister works in a nursing home and didn't want the sister taking care of her during this and he catches it. He said it was like breathing into a plastic bag over his head the first three weeks and this is the first week he hasn't felt that way but still feels like shit and they wouldn't admit him. Two people in my company have caught it as well as a few tenants but fortunately I wasn't around any of them and I keep my office door shut when I have to go in. I found out Monday, a couple I'm good friends with both have it. And they've both been very careful, she's a type I diabetic and they live in a city that has the most cases outside of detroit and she works in a hospital. They were refusing to go out except when she had to go to work and used places like instacart and contactless doordash delivery for their food so she had to have caught it at work. She's in ICU and on a ventilator and they won't test him but he is feeling really weak and has a fever and is still at home. Him not getting tested makes me wonder how many cases there really are in Michigan and makes you appreciate life more but also scares the shit out of me everytime I have to go get groceries. I wish all stores would make wearing masks mandatory.

Homemade gingerale sounds good. Great you have neighbors like that. A friend of mine that goes to my church and lives in the building next door and I have been trading off food every saturday afternoon. Her printer died on her right after this stuff started happening so I print off the church bulletin for her and leave that along with leftovers of whatever I made that week (this week it was roasted red pepper soup and cookies) and I put it in front of my door and buzz her in and she leaves me a couple bowls of whatever soup she made that week and some baked stuff. Works out great because we make some recipes that have too much food for one person and swap out stuff so we have a variety of stuff to eat I have to say my Vitamix sure is paying off.

I was wondering how that worked in places that charged, unfair to make the consumer pay for bags when they can't bring their own. Has to be a pain in a place like Aldi that doesn't provide bags. I'm wondering how that works in municipalities that have banned plastic bags that aren't allowing cloth bags now seeing the stores wouldn't have a supply of plastic bags. I personally hate the ban and glad my state has a law that prohibits cities from banning or charging for plastic bags. A lot of times when it's nice out and I'm out biking or walking I may stop at the neighborhood grocery store to get a few items when I'm finishing up and don't want to tote around a cloth bag during the ride or walk and I also reuse the bags anyway for cleaning the cats litter boxes so I can dispose of it in the dumpster right away instead of putting in with my regular trash and having it smell up my place

I wish EVERY public place would require everyone to wear face masks. I wear one and the main purpose is to prevent the person wearing it from spreading it and wish others would offer me the same courtesy. My biggest complaint of going into a store is when people won't stay six feet behind you. If someone is in front of an item they want they need to stand back instead of coming over and grabbing it off the shelf. Same with the checkout line. Just stand six feet behind people. The stores even have lines on where to stay, you aren't going to get out any faster if you five inches from someone than eight feet away. I've never understood the bag policy. Most grocery stores here have the policy (fortunately the farmers market here allows me to bring my own big, I walk or bike over and it's a lot more convenient using the heavy cloth bag I have). Just require the shopper to bag their own groceries if they bring one. Those bags won't have any more germs on them than the clothes they have on or a woman's purse.

I think I'd drive a little further to go to a post office for a money order or go to my bank for a certified check before waiting in the lines at Walmart. Did you see if the property management company would allow you to issue a check out of your bank to be mailed via the banks bill pay system instead? If it was the management companies screw up and seeing everything going on they should be willing to waive the late fee and wait on the check if you're a good tenant that always pays on time. Mail is super slow. My condo dues are on auto pay to be mailed the 28th of every month so I'm sure they arrive the first of the month and they just received my check Tuesday and we still haven't received the check from another owner on autopay. Another owner that rents his out said his tenant is on autopay and hasn't received his rent check yet (he's trying to use that as an excuse for not paying his dues yet);

I'm avoiding Walmart for now, but see on their site they are now going to start making the aisles one way. Lot's of complaints on their facebook page about it. Biggest complaint is if people have to pass you but I'd rather have someone pass me with their cart then face someone coming in the opposite direction stopping their cart when mine is stopped. I see they are also requiring their employees to wear mask but only asking, and not requiring customers to wear one. The farmers market and the local grocery store I like to go to have had one way traffic for a while and also require customers to enter and exit through opposite doors and I think it's a smart move, only problem is you have people that don't pay attention and do what they want.

I'm avoiding Walmart for now, but see on their site they are now going to start making the aisles one way. Lot's of complaints on their facebook page about it. Biggest complaint is if people have to pass you but I'd rather have someone pass me with their cart then face someone coming in the opposite direction stopping their cart when mine is stopped. I see they are also requiring their employees to wear mask but only asking, and not requiring customers to wear one. The farmers market and the local grocery store I like to go to have had one way traffic for a while and also require customers to enter and exit through opposite doors and I think it's a smart move, only problem is you have people that don't pay attention and do what they want.

Wonder what will get hoarded next at the grocery store. I haven't been able to find yeast in a few weeks and last weekend I wanted to make biscuits and scones and needed baking powder and the grocery store I go to said they have been selling out of it fast and can't keep it on the shelves. I called the small expensive grocery store near my condo before I bought the other items for the scones to see if they had baking powder and the had one can and held it for me, never thought I'd see the day where I would need to have a store hold baking powder for me.

I'm surprised she didn't get charged. Sort of a hypocrite though if she wanted people to stay six feet away from her but wasn't wearing a mask. I wish they would make masks mandatory for both employees and customers in any public building. Not sure why someone would want to get in an elevator with a stranger anyway, especially if they don't have a mask in a place like Walmart which is a haven for it. Both my condo and my office building elevators have signs in them to not share the elevator with anyone not in your household.

Did anyone here ever hire Drew Andrews, who was popular in the last 90s/early 2000? I always thought he was very hot. Same with Cougar Cash.