Are many small town stores touting Y2K stockpiling?

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The other day I was standing in the camping section in Alco (poor man's Wal-Mart) and staring at a large (for this town) supply of newly arrived camping gear and shelves loaded with gallons and gallons of lantern and cooking fuel when the PA system blared: "Are you ready for Y2K," this cute voice chirped. "We've got it all...etc., etc.," she happily reported.

Mind you, this is in a midwest town of 2800 pop., Pastureland, USA, DGI Center of the world. Has anyone else, especially those living in rural, blissful denial areas, had a similiar shocking experience? My dentist just moved into his new all-electric country home. (He still believes in the Tooth Fairy.)

Could the blasted bug find us way out here?

jw

-- J Werner (jwerner15@hotmail.com), October 18, 1999

Answers

Your dentist just moved into a frozen and chilly ice berg with burst pipes at every turn. He'll be eating the can of soup scrounged from the back of his larder cold and in condensed form.

To each his or her own.

I, on the other hand, will be enjoying a hot cup of coffee, a morning cigarette, [hovering furtively in my bedroom so the neighbors don't know, on my 100th cigarette due to my nerves hearing the violent riots on my baygen, hysterically cramming in trick or treat candy trying to pretend it just isn't so bad...]

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), October 18, 1999.


We live in Rural MI in a town of 1800 surrounded by farms etc. We are the original GI's. We're used to outages, blizzards, shortages, etc. It's a fact of rural life out here. Everyone has preps, lanterns, woodburning stoves, food put up. Y2k is just the next step.

-- Disgusted (sodom@gommorah.com), October 18, 1999.

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