We went grocery shopping yesterday, to the Asian shopping center at the Eden center which is like this strip mall of Asian restaurants bubble tea places bakeries and nail salons. We wanted to avoid the trip but all the online delivery services for groceries have been booked for weeks; those that have delivery slots remaining have nothing worth ordering in their inventory. So armed with simple masks and nitrile gloves, we drove to the store.
It was heartening to see that people are taking this thing seriously actually, almost everyone was in masks and gloves and tried maintaining proper distance. The store was quite empty -- as empty as I've ever seen it -- which was quite sad but we justified it, perhaps people were shopping at weird times to avoid everyone, etc etc. For us it worked out really well there were so few people we didn't really have to do anything to avoid others.
We got almost everything we wanted except I realized after we got back that I'd missed out on a couple of things I should have looked for. No matter, I can always bake dinner rolls for the amazing chicken-sandwich-alternative that I came up with. We also got like eight different kinds of fruits and four different kinds of green veggies because it'd been so long and it's boring just surviving on the 'staples' with long shelf life.
The car ride there felt like what must feel like to dogs when they let their heads out in the car...it was almost like a different way to look at the world, the world beyond the four walls of our rooms. It was, so to speak, siick!
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