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Originally Posted by FireSignFemme
Oh my head, I looked for toilet paper for hours. I know there are many ways of doing without it. I've done it before and if I have to, we'll you've got to do what you've got to do, but if there's any way possible I can avoid it, I'm prepared to work very, very hard to scrounge up toilet paper for sale at a reasonable price. I haven't shopped for it in quite awhile.
My son hit a sale at an office supply store back in December and brought me cases of it. The last lot I bought myself, it was so long ago I have no idea how much I paid for it. I'm wondering what the situation is around the country, if others are having as much difficulty as I am, first even finding it in stock, and then at an affordable price?
Well I finally found some and after all the work it took I don't think warning people not to hoard is working at all. I wonder if we'll ever see ration cards again or if that only happens when there's a depression going on or to aid in a war effort. I won't hoard now but when this thing ends boy am I ever going to stockpile and stockpile and stockpile.
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I couldn't take not having some of my fav things (food), so I took the bus to my fav large supermarket.
Toilet Paper: only one per customer, I have stockpiled, so didn't get any.
The bus: only 2 people going, 3 people on the bus returning!
It is the first time in a month that I have used the bus (which is now free), and I had to get on using the back door. I wore gloves and my bandanna. I had taken my buggy and they wouldn't let me bring my buggy into the store. So I left it at the entry (no one touched it, lol) and used their own cart, which they were cleaning one at a time. Btw, I was looked at suspiciously and treated like garbage (for the first time ever in that store!) - since I ain't rich and look gay... butch, and I guess it showed!
Covid-19 is making all prejudices and fears and hatreds come out. Canada has systemic racism, and oh yeah ... homophobia!!! I got everything I wanted and left the store with a full load. I tried to talk with someone waiting for the bus (more than 20' apart) and said lucky you... surgical mask; she was wearing a surgical mask and I only had my bandanna. She said sorry and turned her head away from me. So now I have to deal with prejudices of those who were lucky enough to get surgical masks and the fact that I only have a bandanna! Coming home, I talked with the bus driver. Apparently, quite a few of the bus drivers are staying home (underlying medical conditions/fear), and some have come down with Covid-19. I was seated in the middle of the bus, and the other two were sitting way in the back. Also, the bus driver said that besides regular ridership being down, she hadn't seen the usual mentally disabled riders on for weeks - apparently - and I didn't know this, but she told me that many of these peeps would just get on the bus and would just go for rides and wouldn't usually get off. Won't be going back to this supermarket until this is
mainly over, whatever & whenever that means. So, I am now stuck with the local yuppie supermarket, and paying exorbitant prices for groceries, etc.
Depression: Economically speaking - and I know very little about such matters, but CBC News Network in Canada has used the phrase '
double depression' yesterday.
The whole situation sucks and I blame
all the men in power, globally.