At the local Ace store (that has everything)--has kept 15-20 water barrells in stock all through the year--doesn't let the stock deplete--today only 2 there and folk's carts had 5 gal jugs, gas cans plus other fairly obvious preparedness stuff--at the local bank a gentlman getting his money in SMALL bills and coins---all this juxtapositioned against the usual hysterical Christmas buying. ALSO got royally ribbed by 2nd son and told him that on March 12, if it didn't look like y2k was a big deal I would have a party and we would all wear fancy decorated tin hats--and toast his crazy parent with bean and lentil soup----please God may it be so.

-- John Q (cruisingtheberg@sightings.com), November 26, 1999

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I have promised to buy my entire work group 15+- pizzas and sodas on the first Friday in March if things have not fallen apart.

I gave one co-worker 3 to 1 odds that she would not be driving her new car to work here by April 1st. She has a new big Ford Explorer. Better to have a junker with food in the house. I don't think she can commute at $3.00 Gas

I am offering even money that the DOW goes below 7500 before April 15.

-- woody (woody11420@aol.com), November 26, 1999.

Do you know how much those water barrels were selling for?

obo

-- Obo (susanwater@excite.com), November 26, 1999.

The ones with spigots near the bottom were 45 gal and going for 26.50 I think. (Pickle barrels to begin with--lots of clorox and sunshine cleaned em up). There were also ones without the spigot and I think they were going for around $20 or so. There were smaller ones--maybe about 15 gal and were blue---I'm not sure what they were going for. The 5 gal clear plastic jugs have gone up about $2.00 since spring---they were 5.59 and now are up to 7.59--they do periodically go on sale for 6.59. I've been using these as my unofficial barometer of y2k "herd movement".

-- John Q (cruisingtheberg@sightings.com), November 27, 1999.

obo,

They were selling for 5 clay OBO's.

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), November 27, 1999.