Confronted at Costco today

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Just a little last minute shopping at Costco today. Nothing too obvious I thought- one package each of paper towels and toilet paper and two cases of motor oil. Perhaps it was the motor oil.... A woman who is a complete stranger to me walked up and snidely remarked "Preparing for something?". I gave a vague response. No real point here, just thought it was kind of strange.

-- Patricia (asap@aloha.net), December 28, 1999

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You gotta be kidding, one package of each? How are you supposed to buy LESS than one package? I would have said, "yeah, I'm preparing to wipe my a$$, would you like to watch"?

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), December 28, 1999.

Patricia; There is a thing called 'seeing ghosts'. It is not a bad thing, it happens when you have been understress for a long time. What you most probably ran into today was another GI.

-- (...@.......), December 28, 1999.

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Another biting comment.

I'm impressed....

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 28, 1999.


ROFLOL!!!

Hawk...stop it, I'm gonna P my pants.

-- Darby (DarbyII@AOL.com), December 28, 1999.


Yeah, you might have seen ghosts. I and another Y2Ker were out today. Not only did we grab a few things but saw two other people preparing, and based on what they had in their carts we suspected they were typical Y2Kers, not the herd stirring, having a moment of insecurity. For instance at K-Mart was a fellow with just ten propane bottles and one 24 pack of toliet paper (Black, under 35, which I mention since so many ask if Blacks prepare), yet he had passed by K-Marts' full fledged Y2K preparedness sale items such as canned corned beef 4 for 5 dollars. That means he already had his food, you know? By the way K-Mart had signs about preparing for Y2K with suggested items. At Staters we saw a woman walking up and down the aisles with a massive load of paper plates, 2 12 packs of toilet paper and an 8 pack of paper towels. She seemed to be surfing the store as I think many of us have done. That is another who also already prepared out there with a nervous twitch.

I felt lucky. I was able to find and purchase a good mummy sleeping bag versus the original one I had purchased, and was able to find a small camping table to fit in my den, since the larger original was sucked up by iMac and all its goodies, as my wireless phone jack system went completely dead the other night.

We didn't stray. Originally I was going to go to Sears but to do that is a commute and into one of the 120 target cities. Neither of us were willing. I'll be honest, we were chickens out there. We went to 3 local places all within 2 hours, went back to my place and didn't budge from it. I am not going anywhere until after the rollover. That was it for me nor do I want contact with the public incase of bio warfare contamination.

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), December 28, 1999.



Trying to top off my prepps, got ten more gals of gas for storage, and over five pounds of hard candy to be stored with other food stuffs. Would like another load of wood, but finances tight, will have to make do. Went to Sams, long lines, but didnt look much like prepping. Shelves still full, forgot to check for dry milk, got to do that tomorrow. Cant have too much. Wish some of my relatives would go in with me, sure needed the extra fianances. As it was I went in the hole about $2500. I figured that their machines would probably be down or on a glitch or something and would not be able to bill me any time soon. Of course you and I know that they will bill me somehow if they have to hand carry it.

-- Notforlong (Fsur439@aol.com), December 28, 1999.

Last week my husband and I bought our xmas groceries at Meijer. The cart was full, but not unusually so. As we pushed the cart out of the store an old man sitting on a bench smilingly said, "You're buying up stuff so if it goes down you'll have some ahead, aren't you?" My husband just patted him on the back and said yes.

-- Pearlie Sweetcake (storestuff@home.now), December 28, 1999.

Done with last-minute shopping :-) Went to Freddys: yes, those signs about $50 cash back limit are front 'n center in all entrances to store. Bought lotsa shoelaces. Nothing worse than a broken shoelace when ya gotta perform, and no replacement ...

-- Ashton & Leska in Cascadia (allaha@earthlink.net), December 28, 1999.

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