I'd rather lick a hospital floor.
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My 82 year-old FIL had a battery die in his Honda. I drove over to his house and pulled it. Easy job, done in three minutes. Wal-Mart battery and nothing would do, but it had to go back to Wal-Mart to recover the few bucks off of the warranty.
So, it's off to the local supercenter.
Oh, how many ways can one COVID-19 suicide at Wally World? Let me count the ways.
- I have to go through a single door, where obviously nobody cares how many people are in this store.
- 70% of the people are not wearing masks. At least 30% of the employees are not wearing masks.
- I'm wearing the only N95 in the store. The. Only. One.
- I have to go all the way to automotive, which is in the back of the store.
- Six feet separation? Hah, these people laugh in the face of COVID-19. Literally.
- One-way aisles? Fuhgeddaboutit.
- When I get back to automotive, pushing my probably infected cart with my nitrile gloved hands...Oh, I forgot...I was the only person wearing gloves. The. Only. One...Anyway, I got the new battery, but I couldn't pay for it. No warranties at that counter for the foreseeable future, no core refunds...Just got to Customer Service. At the front of the store.
- As I wind my way back to the front of the store through the aisles of death, I finally get to Customer Service. Where I stand in line. For eons. While a black lady brings back a pack of infant onesies and a pack of diapers. And then proceeds to buy her groceries with the refunded money.
- While I'm standing in line with my batteries, watching people break the six feet rule with regularity, I have to catch my cart, because some four year-old urchin is swinging off the handle. I hope he does not get COVID-19, just a nice case of Type A flu, so that he can suffer.
- I finally get the pro-rated warranty taken care of, get my core credit and buy the new $130 battery.
- I wind my way back to my truck and my waiting wife. I find out why so many people are here today....It's Stimulus Day! People who aren't working and probably skipped this month's rent, are busy buying bicycles, big screen tvs, toilet paper (I shit you not), and my wife watched two women shoehorn an electric dune buggy got into a car, while the one who bought the toy asked the other one what she was buying with her stimulus check?
- I loaded the battery, bagged the mask, shucked the gloves and headed home, where I stripped naked on the carport, threw my clothes in the washer, lysoled my shoes and hit the shower.
- After showering and dressing, I drove back down to FIL, and put the new battery in. I told him I wasn't going back to Wal-Mart. Period. He tried to tell me that I might have to go, if I needed something. I told him not no, but hell-to-the-no.
I'd rather lick a hospital floor.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
lysoled my shoes
I remember traveling to Ireland in 2001 and entering the country we had to walk over mats soaked in disinfectant because of the mad cow disease spreading at the time.
Why haven't I seen mats soaked in disinfectant while entering or leaving a place like Wal*Mart?
Does that not make sense or would it be ineffective?
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@Copper said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@Jolly said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
lysoled my shoes
I remember traveling to Ireland in 2001 and entering the country we had to walk over mats soaked in disinfectant because of the mad cow disease spreading at the time.
Why haven't I seen mats soaked in disinfectant while entering or leaving a place like Wal*Mart?
Does that not make sense or would it be ineffective?
Probably bleach water and I would think it would be effective for bacteria and viruses. I don't know if that would work on prions.
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@AndyD said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
Don't worry, your great leader trumpets you are over the peak of this killer virus, all is well, you need to open business up and get back to normal. These people were heeding his wise words.
Ignore yesterdays 2500+ US death toll.
We'd be happy to roll up the sidewalks, if you Brits would kindly pay what it takes to keep the country closed.
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@AndyD said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
Don't worry, your great leader trumpets you are over the peak of this killer virus, all is well, you need to open business up and get back to normal. These people were heeding his wise words.
Ignore yesterdays 2500+ US death toll.He trumpeted that "All is well"?
Wow, that is what I have been waiting for, how did I miss it?
Thanks for the update.
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@AndyD Every normal day in the US has an 8000 death toll. The question is how many above that did we have?
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@AndyD Every normal day in the US has an 8000 death toll. The question is how many above that did we have?
Probably quite a few. Look at the mortality dump from NYC this week.
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@Jolly said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@LuFins-Dad said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@AndyD Every normal day in the US has an 8000 death toll. The question is how many above that did we have?
Probably quite a few. Look at the mortality dump from NYC this week.
Somewhere I read that NYC is not relying on a positive test to call it a COVID death.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@Jolly said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@LuFins-Dad said in I'd rather lick a hospital floor.:
@AndyD Every normal day in the US has an 8000 death toll. The question is how many above that did we have?
Probably quite a few. Look at the mortality dump from NYC this week.
Somewhere I read that NYC is not relying on a positive test to call it a COVID death.
You are correct for those at-home deaths.
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It's nice to see somebody leading the charge.
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So, if you don't feel like wearing a mask
We know it may not be possible for everyone to wear a face covering. Our associates will be trained on those exceptions to help reduce friction for the shopper and make the process as easy as possible for everyone.
No friction
