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[Dingfelder]

Anyhow, I'm so grateful for you who are still working in grocery stores. I am also grateful for the food supplies... there's not much I can't get still, in this area.

Thank you. I work in a grocery store and lost two friends in two days because I work in a grocery store.  Everyone wants their groceries, of course -- who wants to stop eating? -- but to hell with people who work in grocery stores!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN OUR COMMUNITIES!!!

Sorry, but I'm here to help you.  And I LIVE HERE.  I have papers saying I am part of vital infrastructure to the USA and not to stop me while driving. 

And I go home and friends of 15 years try their best to shame me and ostracize me among neighbors.  Because I work in a grocery store.  

Hmm ... how many of you are willing to do with even a little less for a while?  Maybe drop a few pounds?

Nah ... let's attack the neighbors instead!  Go after your friends and encourage others to do the same!

This is a time when you find out who people really are. 

It is sobering.

 

[Qxxx]

You have some really weird "friends", ding. Hard to believe those sort even exist. Jello for brains. I had an order from Smith's grocery delivered last week via Instacart, and gave the gal a $20 tip, and repeatedly told her how appreciative I was. And I didn't order any jello either.

 

[jacqueg]

Thank you. I work in a grocery store and lost two friends in two days because I work in a grocery store.  Everyone wants their groceries, of course -- who wants to stop eating? -- but to hell with people who work in grocery stores!  WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN OUR COMMUNITIES!!!....
......This is a time when you find out who people really are.
It is sobering.

It sure is. When people get scared, whatever meanness they have in them comes bubbling to the surface.

It's sad this is happening to you. Forgive them if you can, and if you can't, stop seeing them. Rest assured, you aren't the only recipient of their meanness.

I for one feel profoundly grateful every time I pull into a grocery store or gas station or restaurant, and see that it is still open. All I have to do is imagine the fix I'd be in if most of these places closed.

 

[travelaround]

Wow - this is a revelation to me. I had no idea that people are persecuting grocery workers. I can't even understand a reason for it. We all need to keep eating - or start fasting. Most of us will keep eating. I think my perspective is sheltered by the fact that I live in a very remote small town in the middle of the forest. I went shopping in Medford, Oregon on February 29. That was the last time I left our small town, so I'm not aware of any civil unrest unless I see it on TV news. Here in the forest town, 70 miles from the interstate, we're pretty laid back and relaxed about everything though we do still follow CA lockdown guidelines, wear masks in public now, and I've been in isolation, seems like a long time already. If anyone in this town is in desperate need there are plenty of people who will help. It is that kind of town. I've received grocery deliveries and free food and a free cloth mask, etc...

 

[Dingfelder]

I'm just a half hour or less from Medford, myself. Oregon is generally thought of as a pretty laid-back, mind-your-own-business kind of place. But we do have a lot of imports from Los Angeles. That explains part of the "up-tight" attitude perhaps,but not all of it. Some of the folks I'm talking about have been transplanted 20 years or more.

 

[Dingfelder]

You have some really weird "friends", ding. Hard to believe those sort even exist. Jello for brains. I had an order from Smith's grocery delivered last week via Instacart, and gave the gal a $20 tip, and repeatedly told her how appreciative I was. And I didn't order any jello either.

They are old.  People tend to deteriorate when they get old, losing judgment as well as sharpness, and become afraid.  I have to say that I don't entirely disagree with younger generations that older ones cared more about themselves than the future or anything else.  And as a result heedlessly left a lot of damage behind them.  Older people often find it hard to analogize from others situations to their own, and thus, to care.

 

[crofter]

Differences in the generations. The manifest destiny generations have much more of a feeling of entitlement than the generations trying to live in harmony with nature. And true, entitled people do not develop much empathy for others as they age.   -crofter

 

[Dingfelder]

I'm seriously worried about the company you keep! :huh:
I actually shop at my store for a couple of elder neighbors so they don't have to wander out too often. They are grateful for that.

Older people.  We tend to devolve a lot, or improve a lot, as we age, methinks.  We may become the better people we were meant to be before the world's meanness took us over, catered to our worst instincts, and made us afraid and aggressive accordingly.  God forbid that path brought us any success.  Or we may devolve further along those lines.  Often older people tend to go to one extreme or another.  Nicer than they ever were or WTF??? unpleasant at best.

Re shopping for others, the funny thing is, I have offered to do that for some.  But they choose to go to the market themselves quite frequently anyway.  I'm not sure on the math of that.  Would they rather expose themselves to one person, or to a hundred?  That one person may see a hundred, too, but ... how many do the hundred shoppers they bump into meet? 

So is safety really their main concern?  Or just pretending at it?  Truth is, a lot of people just want to get out of the house.  But that doesn't mean they don't want to retain their social distancing cred by pretending to be way more careful than they are.  I see neighbors getting really weird, but they still meet with their extended family and go out to do recreational shopping all the time.  

I guess it's far easier and more delightful to alienate your friends and neighbors than to stop shopping.  Shows where our values as a society lie.

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