Virus Conspiracy, Travel, Prepping, Bitching

[Lungo]

We ventured out to Costco this past Sunday and it wasn't bad at all. Granted, we got there before scheduled opening and they had already opened their doors. Interesting thing is our cashier told the customer behind us that they couldn't buy something because of limits. I didn't see the exact item but they were told they could only buy 1 of it.

 

[Side Burns]

... you ain't shit compared to these jaspers.
This is obscene.

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If thats TP i hope those clouds start raining

 

[Roberteaux]

I have quite a few as well. Much more than a few years ago. Haven't seen as many fox and coyote lately, so that could explain the rising bunny pops.

I had to save one that was trying to commit suicide several years ago. While cutting the grass with the riding mower, he hopped out from under a pine tree and sat down right in my path. I tried to shoo him off to no avail. Finally had to shut the mower down and actually pick him up to relocate him to a safe distance back under the pine trees.

How very strange!

Hunter S. Thompson wrote an essay involving a suicidal rabbit one time. I thought it was more of his fictionalized hyperbole, but then in 2004-- immediately after we went through three hurricanes that rampaged through my area in five weeks-- a rabbit with an apparent death wish suddenly appeared in my area.

The place I lived in at the time was a kind of 5-acre fenced compound at the very end of a dead-end street out in the woods. So many trees came down in those storms that we hadn't actually cleared all of them from the first storm by the time the third came along. We were without power for several weeks that time...

Because I had a motorcycle, I was the person responsible for whatever necessary runs needed to be made into and out of the area. I was riding a large Harley FLH model, at first taking it cross fields which was kind of a trip, but as we slowly opened the roadway I got to where was able to go down it (albeit with some detours around especially cluttered parts of the road). Oaks of up to about three to five feet in diameter had come down, and even with four of us working and the use of *some* power equipment, it took a long, long time and a lot of hard labor to get that stuff off the private road.

There was a long stretch that was cleared, though. And on numerous occasions I'd be riding along this stretch when a rabbit would come darting out from the underbrush.

In a manner that suggested that he was actually *trying* to be run down, he'd run across my path, cutting it really close. I even deliberately dumped the bike one time to avoid hitting him. I wasn't badly hurt, but almost ended up skewered through the crotch by a long, sharp tree limb. It was a matter of inches between me and sudden castration...

Pissed off by this, I decided that henceforth, I wasn't gonna sacrifice myself for that crazy rabbit again. Almost as if it were a conciliatory gesture, the rabbit continued to appear as I was rolling through the area-- but he took to running parallel to my course and stopped the hairy business of cutting in front of me as he'd been doing.

For a while, anyway.

But then one night I was passing through and there he was-- and he made the cut, and ended up flattened.

The motorcycle I was riding was 838 pounds dry. I sort of winced and squeezed the gas tank with my knees as I tightened my grip and relaxed my shoulders, expecting to feel an impact and not wishing to lose control. But I felt nothing, and at first hoped that I missed the crazy rabbit.

I turned around and rolled back, though... and there he was, dead as it gets. I didn't feel as though I had murdered something, but nonetheless felt very sad about the whole thing with this rabbit. I rode back to the compound, then grabbed a shovel and hoofed it back to bury the rabbit. I felt pretty sad about the whole thing-- but even more puzzled than sad. I mean, WTF was up with this rabbit? If only they could talk!

I flashed onto the bit that Thompson had written about suicide rabbits. To this day I have no idea if the little bastard was actually *trying* to be killed, or if this behavior was some reaction to the sight and sound of my motorcycle... or what the deal really was there. All I can say for sure is that he showed up after we were slammed by three hurricanes in rapid succession.

Was he a thrill-seeking hare? Is it even possible for rabbits to suffer from depression and become suicidal? Man, I dunno anything beyond what I observed in this creature... but I never saw another one like that again.

I did figure out that Thompson-- who ultimately committed suicide himself-- probably wasn't exaggerating as he wrote of the suicidal bunny he'd encountered.

Strange creatures, rabbits. When my daughter was a child, she had a pet rabbit that I observed at length... but I never did get a grip on their characteristics as a critter, can't claim to be able to predict them or even understand much of anything about them.

And so I still don't know what was up with that rabbit in 2004. Was he just so stressed out by the hurricanes that hammered us-- one after another in rapid sequence-- that he was playing games with his own life... or what?

Don't reckon I'll ever know for sure what happened there. But I do find it odd to hear an account of an apparently suicidal rabbit every so often. Yours is just the latest of about a half-dozen accounts I've heard now, including my own experience.

--R

 

[bilbarstow]

when really it's already the world event of our lives.

I hate you for putting it so succinctly. because this is it.

 

[NRBQ]

That's a lot of condoms, it stands to reason, everyone is preparing for extended indoor activity.

 

[Olds442]

i gotta make me one of those tp shooters

leaf blower, duct tape, paint roller.

it would take me longer to find the roller than it would to build it and outrage the neighbors.

 

[Uncle Vinnie]

It'd be great for toilet papering the neighbor's tree on Devil's Night, especially a battery-powered one. You could go amok in the 'hood.

 

[Zungle]

Wife had an appointment w a gastro..they heard her coughing..temp was 99.8..now 100.6.. Got her to our GP..she is now self isolating and sleeping a lot in her study here,,

So..hit home here..but we think it's allergies from yard work Sunday,,just being cautious..

I hope she is well....

This is beginning of allergy season for me as well.

 

[rifflearner]

Wednesday update:

Wednesday useful info:

 

[NRBQ]

We ventured out to Costco this past Sunday and it wasn't bad at all. Granted, we got there before scheduled opening and they had already opened their doors. Interesting thing is our cashier told the customer behind us that they couldn't buy something because of limits. I didn't see the exact item but they were told they could only buy 1 of it.

People are freaking out and hording bottled water, so my local grocery store has a limit of two cases per person. So people are just sending in several family members and simply finding a way around that set limit. You just send in 8 family members for two each and presto a limit of two becomes 16, neat trick. Me? I never purchase water, and this situation isn't going to change that, I don't buy water period. I have a water faucet, and if I'm in doubt about what's in it I can boil it, and then run it thru my zero water pitcher to drink or use for food preparation. Buy "Lemmings" bottled water, the finest water on earth, from the pristine glaciers off the coast of Idiotville shipped directly to your fragile eggshell mind.

 

[SteveGangi]

It's hard to catch, Neff. We can't be here every second. It would help to report asshats.

Yes, but I'm kind of loath to do that, because what if it's a good guy just having a bad day? What if I was just over reacting? What if I was the asshole who started it?

I want to make damn sure before I mash that button.

 

[Big John]

Same up here, Lungo. My local Tumwater Costco has "Limit 1" signs above a lot of stuff. We went in Sunday and the cashier old us that people are lining up at the door daily before it opens. Last time I lined up for anything was in 1984 for Van Halen at the Kingdome. Both band and venue are gone. Related? Hmm....

 

[LtDave32]

Yes, but I'm kind of loath to do that, because what if it's a good guy just having a bad day? What if I was just over reacting? What if I was the asshole who started it?

I want to make damn sure before I mash that button.

If it's a good guy having a bad day, then the mod staff will determine if it is actionable.

The report button doesn't "damn" anyone. It merely brings our attention to possible problems.

 

[SteveGangi]

Back to the market for a sec..

DJ closed at well over 1000 points up from yesterday. Exactly like I said it would.

So, like I said; wait and see before popping off about doomsday.

And like I said, hold on and DON'T sell now. I wonder how many day traders lost everything, out of fear and hype.

 

[SteveGangi]

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Cmon everybody, we can all work together, especially us older farts, and learn from the youth of today. Clearly they have something important to teach us all:

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I've learned that maybe my tolerance and trying to be nice was unfounded. My opinion of them has taken a huge hit.

 

[SteveGangi]

Just lead them by a few feet with a green laser and see if they follow it like a cat.
If they do, lead them out onto the interstate

That is god damn brilliant

 

[Olds442]

Yes, but I'm kind of loath to do that, because what if it's a good guy just having a bad day? What if I was just over reacting? What if I was the asshole who started it?

I want to make damn sure before I mash that button.

i once reported a post by someone i consider to be a friend here. i commented to the mod that maybe they could just delete the post and not ban the member. i believe i wrote something to the effect of.

"I like ____, we go back and forth all the time. i just don't know where they're going with this post and some will find it offensive."

we all have to be responsible for what we post, so if I post something out of bounds, i expect to be called out for it.

 

[SteveGangi]

i always enjoy the "but what if x,y and q happens" question when they try to get the spokesperson to speculate on an unlikely scenario and then run with it as news.
The proper response to nonsense hypothetical questions is me say "next" But a lot of spokespeople fall into the trap.

At work, and back when I was in the Army, they both told us the same thing ... say "I don't know anything" and then walk away. Do not say anything they could twist into a statement, a confirmation, or a denial.

The final convincing for me, that showed the wisdom of that, was years ago when Sixty Minutes ran a real hit job on aerospace... talking about people and places I knew. It was all lies and conjecture. There was not ONE bit of fact or truth.

 

[SteveGangi]

Wife had an appointment w a gastro..they heard her coughing..temp was 99.8..now 100.6.. Got her to our GP..she is now self isolating and sleeping a lot in her study here,,

So..hit home here..but we think it's allergies from yard work Sunday,,just being cautious..

I hope it's just allergies ... this is the time of year for allergies.

 

[LtDave32]

People are freaking out and hording bottled water, so my local grocery store has a limit of two cases per person. So people are just sending in several family members and simply finding a way around that set limit. You just send in 8 family members for two each and presto a limit of two becomes 16, neat trick. Me? I never purchase water, and this situation is going to change that, I don't buy water period. I have a water faucet, and if I'm in doubt about what's in it I can boil it, and then run it thru my zero water pitcher to drink or use for food preparation. Buy "Lemmings" bottled water, the finest water on earth, straight from Idiotville to your fragile eggshell mind.

What killed me in Barstow is that people were lining up and hoarding water from the water vending machine, which is on the same distribution pipes as their own home tap.

If I were an asshole, I would put up an "emergency water stand" with tap water (just like the vending machine in front of the supermarket uses) and make a bundle.

But I would never do that to people. They are making themselves suffer needlessly as it is.