Posted on 03/13/2020 4:47:20 AM PDT by BuckeyeGOP
What the hell? No store here in Columbus has toilet paper. I'm not looking to hoard the stuff, I just need to be able to wipe my a**. Why toilet paper???? People must have the stuff packed to the rafters in their basements and garages.
Best I can figure the news about no toilet paper during the Venezuela economic meltdown must have scarred our psyche pretty bad.
It's to the point where it might be prudent for the secretary of commerce to hold a news conference and re-assure folks that there is no toilet paper shortage.
Thank you for responding to my post, FRiend Truth.
I went out to lunch shortly after posting my original comment.
On the way home, I stopped by both a local Walgreens and a CVS.
Both were well stocked with everything — until you got to the paper products aisle, which was denuded of every roll of t-paper.
Otherwise, people looked like they were shopping normally, no big lines or anything else.
As an old-school newspaperman — and one who has been through a few hurricanes — I get a sense that sort of herd panic is going to leave a lot of people looking foolish. And sooner than we might think.
I know! Heck I had to use wash clothes to wipe my boys bottoms when they were babies. They didn’t have wipes then! The world has gone bat crap stupid crazy
I am the Great Cornholio. I need TP for my bunghole.
Oh brother. Always one in the crowd.
Went to Costco this morning, opens at 1000, I arrived at 1005 in the parking lot and more people were exiting the driveway than usually during Black Friday.
I walked up and the line to get in wrapped around the warehouse and doubled back to the front like a Disneyland E Ticket ride. Got in the store, and they had sold out of about 24 pallets of 30 pack TP in about 15 minutes,...I got one of the last ones, just to barter with.
All Paper Towels and Kleenex were sold out in same time from previous day. I luckily stumbled upon a 12-pack of Ultra Kleenex on a different aisle, out of place, where somebody dumped it out of their cart. Everybody kept asking me where I had gotten it. Then twice of many kept eye-ballin’ my cart. So I couldn’t walk from my cart in the mad house just to get something quickly, lest the hounds attacked my selections from out of my cart. It was a zoo.
Bought 15 items I either came for or saw in passing as prudent to pickup and wasn’t able to get out in less than 90 minutes.
Everybody was in remarkably good cheer though. Costco attendants said its been this way for past 2 weeks.
FWIW, now that travel to/from Italy is locked down, all the Jewish groceries, Bristol Farms, Trader Joe’s etc, have had a run on any Italian Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar. All their stocks have been depleted and since no travel to/from Italy, Italian Wines also might not get restocked for another 6 months (or until after our funerals and wakes../s).
But low and behold, Costco Kirkland is distributing some Italian Olive Oil and Balsamic Vinegar, and there were 8 pallets of it sitting in the racks today and nobody has really touched it. Sold out at TJs and Bristol farms for about a week now.
Then you should be used to being prepared living in that kind of environment. Or do you not prepare for those either?
A great movie - AB Normal!!!
I was at Vons an hour ago to get a small ham steak to add to soup. I was startled to see one entire meat section stripped completely bare. Like fifteen feet of absolutely stark empty counter. I think it was where chicken normally is.
Spooky. The place was packed with Crazed Panic Buyers. I grabbed my ham steak while the locusts were busy stripping the beef section clean. I got out of there before their madness could infect me, too.
“”Oh brother. Always one in the crowd.””
What’s that supposed to mean?
Did I mistake FR for a site where only your opinion is allowed?
It was #1 on my wife’s list.
I bought 90 rolls at Sams’s club 3 weeks ago. I think we may be able to come to terms.
I was born in 1935 so my mother had first hand experience with the Great Depression.
All my life when my Mother was alive she would buy cans of tuna fish on sale , and drop them of at my house saying "You never know when you will need them'.
People who lived through the Depression never really got over it. - Tom
No chicken at all (frozen or fresh) in both Ralph’s and Vons. Went to Whole Foods where many patrons have the masks on, but they had a few lbs of chicken. Not much left. I got some packages of legs and breasts.
Local WalMart, drug stores and convenience stores had none. A grocery store I stopped in had plenty of toilet paper, though. Near as I can tell everyone is counting on being quarantined for at least 2 weeks so they are stocking up. Kind of silly unless you have a bunch of kids.
Well, Bud Wipe is as close as I can tie beer with toilet paper.
Not being a fan of light beer, I suppose because I will never again drink enough beer for calorie count or cost to be an issue, I only drink the occasional single beer, which will be full bodied and tasty.
I like the Mexican beers, but also the Japanese beers, and local micro-brews, and many of the beers I tasted, and over indulged on, in Germany while in the Army. So I guess I did have a few brushes with Becks and Schultzheiss (local Berlin brew) virus...
Alas, no Bud Wipe virus for me.
ALL the TP is at my house because I keep forgetting to turn off the Amazon automatic reorder on my account.
I have it, I am the Bill Gates of toilet paper.
and FR on here with their “Live Thread” love contributing to the panic
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