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Both of my daughters have gone into full on PANIC mode.....lord help.

Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,080 ✭✭✭✭
My middle child lives two hours away.    She calls at least twice a day to find out what I'm doing and tell me I need to stop whatever that is and seal myself up in my house with the Lysol.    

My oldest has taken the scrounge for everything imaginable....even if you've never in your life needed it or know how to use it.        My husband had our grandson while I was working yesterday so she could run to the pet store, but that turned into an all day event because she decided to stop at a couple stores.

She called and asked if I needed paper towels......and said all that was left were shop towels.    I told her I was pretty stocked in them and NOT to buy them because I had no use for shop towels.    She then tells me that she actually grabbed the last roll of them and some woman RAMMED her with a shopping cart because of it.    So, here she is with a slight limp and shop towels for her trouble.     I told her to come on home and settle down.

My son.....that boy is what they call "chill" about this whole mess.     I asked him if he was ok on supplies at his place, he said he was fine.    I asked him if he was off work because of this......he said no, and he hadn't heard anything.    He let me go because he was playing some game with one of his friends he works with.    I told him to expect a call from his sister telling him to kick his buddy out and not to let his oldest sister in his place if she came by because she might just steal his paper towels and run.  
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    The mass hysteria is more contagious that the Chinese virus!!!!  People truly are nuts.
  • jimdeerejimdeere Member, Moderator Posts: 26,277 ******
    My step daughters aren’t panicking yet. They live close and know that Mom will have everything they need.
  • notnownotnow Member Posts: 1,858 ✭✭✭
    My daughter gets my wife whipped up into a frenzy. Reason is futile. Yesterday I realized It won't stop till the refrigerators and freezer were filled to capacity. So we went and now they are. Today she's taking my son, who lives here, down to WV to buy cigarettes.  I hope he comes back with at least 3 cartons. Somewhere my wife heard tobacco related manufacturing will be shut down.
  • mark christianmark christian Member Posts: 24,443 ✭✭✭✭
    You're son is young and has probably always been healthy, so his attitude is the same as mine would have been at his age. once I got out of school, which are breeding grounds for illnesses of all descriptions, I seldom came down with a cold, much less the flu. In times of crisis, real or imagined, a relaxed attitude is far healthier than being in panic mode 24-7. As bpost said, "The mass hysteria is more contagious that the Chinese virus!"
  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,042 ✭✭✭✭
      Gov. Prickster is now joining CA. in "SHELTER IN PLACE" B.S. Jerk had to stay in step with the other liberal states. I am NOT doing it and going to go somewhere Saturday and they can KMA. 
  • gearheaddadgearheaddad Member Posts: 15,091 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
      Gov. Prickster is now joining CA. in "SHELTER IN PLACE" B.S. Jerk had to stay in step with the other liberal states. I am NOT doing it and going to go somewhere Saturday and they can KMA. 



    All non essential businesses to shut down.
    Nope. No way. Not unless I can have a free pass on my Real Estate Taxes. If not, It's essential my business stays open.
    Screw Pritzker. He's a horses *. No offense to horses.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,080 ✭✭✭✭
    I do have to admit......this has re-wired my brain to be some kind of toilet paper nut job.     I can't stop myself.    If I lave the house and pass a Dollar General, I just HAVE to see if they have any and buy a pack if they do.

    Someone needs to mark the calendar and ask me a year from now just how much toilet paper I own, because if nothing changes and I don't stop this its going to be interesting to say the least.   
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  • hillbillehillbille Member Posts: 14,459 ✭✭✭✭
     you can use it to pack your guns in for shipping..............
  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    My best friend can't hardly leave his house with how nutty his wife has gone over this. My sister in law was telling my girlfriend last night that there was going to be an announcement today saying there was going to be a nationwide two week quarantine, enforced by the National Guard. People are losing it.
  • redneckandyredneckandy Member Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭✭
    Oh and the TP hoarders are the absolute worst!! (Looking at you LF) ;)
  • WulfmannWulfmann Member Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭
     I always have a 2 year supply of TP (well, of almost everything) and have not bought any TP for over 6 months.
    Not because I prep but because I am cheap.
    When things that can last are on sale I stock up hence the supply of TP doing the BOGO thing.
    I also have a life time supply of ammo in case any of you (I won't stock up I'll come and take yours) fellas come by.
    I wish I could buy gasoline when the price bottoms for the next ten years. I would pay up front for say 10,000 gallons and pick it up 20 at a time.
    That is how I view any resource that does not depreciate in value or usability
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    "Fools learn from their own mistakes. I learn from the mistakes of others"
    Otto von Bismarck
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    My youngest son is 31 years old, living on his own with his wife and 8 yr old daughter. He is also Bi-Polar and just lost his job.  Been driving me and his mom batchit crazy all week with what is going down here!  Not sure what to do but am praying things get better for the country and damn soon!
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,080 ✭✭✭✭
    Oh and the TP hoarders are the absolute worst!! (Looking at you LF) ;)
    I'm not officially hoarding it yet.....but its on my mind enough that I can't imagine I will ever be low.    I have bought four big packs since all of this started.....kept one, gave one to Shelby (my secretary) another to Barry (who also works for me), dropped a pack off at my in laws house and the last went to my daughter's place.    

    My dog groomer just called and moved my appointment around.    She said that she got an email saying anyone that runs a home based business is supposed to lay off their employees for a month.    I didn't ask where this email came from, but we are running like normal here.....so long as everyone wants to work.    There are only three of us and we are at different desks anyway.      
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  • gruntled2gruntled2 Member Posts: 560 ✭✭✭
    I have tried for three days to find corn tortillas for my wife. (I have NO use for them.) There are some made of wheat but the corn ones appear to be made of unobtanium. I did try to get some soup but unless you like mushroom soup there's not much to be had. I even noticed that the dog & cat food shelves were almost empty. Considering the run on bottled water I am a bit surprised to see the soda pop aisles nearly fully stocked.
  • Locust ForkLocust Fork Member Posts: 32,080 ✭✭✭✭
    My favorite soup is cream of mushroom......I'll fix a bowl of it just as a quick dinner with crackers, but you can add it to soooo many things and just about everything turns out great when you do.  
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    I agree on the value of a good can of cream of mushroom soup!  I also was raised eating a lot of Campbell's Bean with Bacon soup.  It is also good as a sandwich spread, cold right out of the can!   

    This life emergency is bringing back a lot of food memories from an old guy who grew up in a large poor family!  I never back then even realized we were poor!  

    Learned one from my grandmother that I may find myself making again in the not so distant future.  Poor man's gravy, made with the drippings left from fried hamburger.  Good over potato's, rice, noodles, beans, lentils, grits, or anything you have on hand.  Makes blah taste a bit more palatable! 
  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,840 ✭✭✭
    LF,
     They are in "full on panic mode" for one reason: SOCIAL MEDIA.

    That is why.


    Merc
  • Mr. PerfectMr. Perfect Member, Moderator Posts: 66,437 ******
    LF, I relish the tales you share. Thank you.
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    And fiery auto crashes
    Some will die in hot pursuit
    While sifting through my ashes
    Some will fall in love with life
    And drink it from a fountain
    That is pouring like an avalanche
    Coming down the mountain
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