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Do you have any grocery stores with self checkout where you live?
For my wife physical workout helps, going running for 40 minutes every second day makes quite a difference.
For me as well I might add.
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They only open them when it gets busy. Apparently being union, they like to keep their cashiers employed. I can understand that, but at the same time, I'd just as soon not go in the store. Besides, those checkout areas get crowded anyway. Or at least too crowded for me.
Real programmers use butterflies
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That's got to be very frustrating. Sorry to hear that.
You should try gardening, if you don't already. Less dependence on others is a good thing.
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I don't have much room left for a garden now that we have chickens.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I don't panic, but sometimes a bit lost. Found myself in their canteen twice. So now, if I alone someone of the workforce walks along.
In the early hours few people there.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You could try "Amazon fresh", we've got very good results with that.
And in cases when something does not arrive in good condition (ice cream that lost the ice part ^^¡) they refund it without asking anything.
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I looked into them, but I'd have needed to wake up my hubby (who is in another state right now) to get the details for our Prime Account. I ended up using InstaCart instead, but they had to go to a different grocery store than the one I usually shop at. That's fine. I thought I would have to wait, but I guess they give you priority delivery on your first order which includes delivering earlier in the day. Woo!
Real programmers use butterflies
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I used to volunteer on a help line in the UK and came across people with similar issues. One guy in particular could only go shopping between 2 and 4 AM so that he didn't meet other people. One thing it taught me is the mental health issues are primarily health issues.
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Yeah I learned that too when it hit me right between the eyes in 2017. Since then I've just ... my life has gotten a lot "smaller", especially socially. It's difficult, because needing to isolate doesn't prepare you for being isolated. I'm just glad that for whatever reason, my husband doesn't trigger my anxiety.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Some cab companies here offer to do the shopping for you due to the Covid issues. Maybe a solution?
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I found a service that did it, and they delivered early for me too. A little expensive once I tipped, but worth it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I grew up with a guy that once spoke of a coder at his job that could do all this sorcery but couldn't order a cheeseburger.
I was a hardware guy back then (late 70s) and thought that both amusing and strange. Well, I've been coding for a while now and nothing makes me choke like ordering from a drive up window order stand. To the degree that my wife now leans over me to do the ordering if I'm driving anymore.
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If it weren't for our spouses what would we do?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Mutter and starve.
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Sorry to hear things aren't so great just now; hope you can find a solution and that your cupboards aren't too bare anyway! And hoping your hubbie's op goes well.
Reading this from the UK is interesting, regarding shopping options.
I've been using "home shopping" (online ordering, the store delivers to my home) since 2000 (TBH, I was contracting at that retailer at the time and they had a "staff" pilot scheme). But all through lockdown, we've had a regular slot either for delivery (a 1- or 2-hour timed slot), or "click+collect". I'm guessing this is similar to your "curbside pickup" (a term we don't use this side of the pond). In click+collect at grocery stores, we just order online for a 1-hour pickup slot; then drive to a designated parking area and they bring the shopping to the car. Depending on time-of-day, this is either free or between 25p and £1.50.
In store, the number of staffed checkouts has fallen dramatically. Unless you've got a huge trolleyload, most people use self-checkout. This is either self-scanning on exit, or picking up a hand-scanner as you go in and scanning as you shop. Some stores also have phone apps so you use your phone to scan and pay. Since start of Covid I've very rarely shopped in store, and when I do, I use self-checkout. So apart from weaving around other customers, I barely meet or interact with anyone when shopping. In fact for a long while we had a regular 8:30am click+collect pickup, and though it was never ever busy (no queues) I met one or two other "regulars" loading their cars and they were about the only social interaction in the whole process...
Also our big supermarkets (in the larger towns at least) are often open 24-hours a day; so if you're having panic attacks in social situations you could try doing the shopping at 3am. I've not been at that time but am pretty sure it will be self-checkout only then!
Lastly, some of our big retailers are also pairing up with fast food delivery companies; so you can order goods from e.g. M+S (a higher-end food store) and Deliveroo will pick up what you want and deliver to you, often within the hour. (I guess that might be similar to your instacart?)
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Can you use an upside down canoe as a hat, because it's capsized?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Only if you are dinghy, and have ship for brains.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Perhaps, oar perhaps not, boat let's not quibble.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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I figured you'd sea it that way.
/ravi
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No, but an upside down cake might work. the whole thing sounds fishy to me.
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I subscribe to a number of online medical sites (MD-oriented). One pointed out a rather interesting concept that is all-too-relevant in today's world:
". . . no one demands randomized clinical trials of parachutes."
Make of it what you will (I find it profound in its simplicity) - it's actually something to consider in long-term decision making and not just in today's obvious context.
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: parachutes It's very easy to tell if a parachute is to blame for someone falling to the earth and dying, knowing if a drug killed someone is much more difficult and there is a number of deaths that is considered allowable before it becomes a problem.
Apples and oranges.
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