no inconvience , no problems

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Lets face the reality of the situation. It really dosen't matter how many refineries are down or how many brown outsthere are or how many building lockouts or how many spy satellites screw up or how many web sites display funny dates or how many busy signals one gets or whatever. These problems don't matter until a threshhold of inconvience is met. Thats the reality. Perhaps the scale that is being used should be converted to a scale that measures public inconvience. 1- no inconvience, 10-massive inconvience. It certainly would put to rest all the controversy over this being down and that screwing up. Ignore all failures monitor inconvience only. That is what I am converting to . Right now Y2K is a 1 on the inconvience scale.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000

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Agreed! In fact, now that I am using preps (instead of accumulating them), I am at a -1 on the inconvenience scale. No more trips to the bank or grocery store for quite a few months for me!

-- cmd0903 (cmd0903@dontcall.com), January 05, 2000.

FYI I did prep for the Y2K event.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000.

FYI I did prep for the Y2K event. And I am not getting rid of my supplies. I believe we will reach 4 on the inconvience scale.

-- lenny (Chmielecki@worldnet.att.net), January 05, 2000.

I'm not sure I'd start rolling out of my current prepped status just yet. Of COURSE I am going to use the stores, that's what they are there for. Also stretches the preps past the next harvest.

Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), January 05, 2000.


My major inconvenience at this point is climbing over all the preps I made! I'm still not quite ready to let go of them, though.

-- Carol (2gkr14@usa.net), January 05, 2000.


Lenny, you also need to factor in a "whining" rating. It may not just be inconveniences, it may be significantly higher prices, or homeowners having to replace expensive electronics because they were fried.

My boss, taking Monday off to get some work down at home, left me a voicemail late morning. She was zero for six and had given up for the day. She couldn't pick up her dry cleaning because the computer was down. She couldn't make a doctor's appointment because the computer was down. She couldn't check on any of her billing status because the computers were down, and so on.

She had called to say I was "vindicated". She was very frustrated, and I would say that her inconvenience rating was quite high at that time.

Related to the idea of a death by a thousands cuts is the idea that life could turn into a third-world style or things just not working very well.

My inconvenience scale is near zero, and I expect it to remain very low compared to those around me, specifically because of my preps and pre-rollover activities. I expect to hear lots of whining from my DWGI friends, however.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), January 05, 2000.


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