I had prescriptions to pick up.
I made an order for Walmart.
And, wait for it…quit pushing…give me room…went to Sonic. Now that was fun.
The lil’wrekker drove. We never got out of the car.
We were scared to death.
Keep in mind we haven’t been away from the house since March and my hospital stay.
The streets were empty. Walmart parking lot was semi-full. Seems a bunch were waiting on orders.
I’ve never seen the big gas station by Walmart where you didn’t need to wait. Eerie.
What is this new place? This world? Did everyone get the call to leave and they forgot us?
Everyone looks freaky with face masks on.
The lil’wrekker says the masks are ‘sick’. I took that to mean they look ‘cool’ as in a fashion sense way. That girl!
Our little walk on the wild side ended. We were very careful. Sanitized and wore our masks.
I think we’ll live.
I made a similar trip with my mom last week. She had not been out of the house since March either and we got her meds and made a mad dash into a Bob Evans for breakfast early on Saturday before it got busy. Good times.
The best thing of letting the WalMonsters do my order picking is that $78.31 of strange things don’t leap into my cart. On one hand, I do NOT want to rub shoulders with walks the aisles at Wally World, on the other hand, with my top speed of a startled snail, them doing the picking is a lot faster, and on the gripping hand, I don’t think I could do all that walking. There is a nasty lack of places to sit down inside tyhe store, and my range is small these days.
@The_Vorlon, I agree with you that even having my Walmart goods delivered is worth the fee, for what I save on impulse items that don’t jump into the cart. I do still have to do some in-person shopping, but at my usual Walmart, they’re doing decently on distancing. Would be nice if the one-way markers on the aisles were at a more attention-getting eye level instead of on the floor.
DH is still having mobility challenges (he broke his leg last September), so he definitely sympathizes with you about lack of seating and problems maneuvering.
I just pull up at the orange zone outside and they toss it in the back of the shuttle.
The only stores I darken the doorways of is the small grocery chain that has a yummy day old section, and, of course, Market Basket. But i keep finding that everything I want is the wrong way for the one way aisles, and about the second time I say ‘frack it’ and head for the checkout. A lot of the time I think I’m the only one following the arrows.
Wendy’s has a nice little milkshake-they call it a Frostie. No idea of it’s diabetic friendliness but the few I’ve had were tasty and just the right size.
The eastern third of the Interstate 80 corridor has both Wendy’s and Arby’s. That corridor is about 140 miles long but only 3 miles wide so come before our snow flies-often October.
I wish I lived close enough to a WalMart to walk there. I haven’ been in one in two years. There’s a Target about a mile away I can walk to, but it’s pricier. Sorry, off topic.
Glad you got out to see the wide world and survived! Did it seem smaller than you remembered?
It’s interesting that things are still a lot quieter in your neck of the woods than they were before.
Around here, in suburban Chicago, it was seriously quiet in late March and early April (in part, I’m sure, because so many businesses were closed), and the roads, even at rush hour, seemed empty. While I don’t think traffic, or the level of busyness in stores, is back to where it was before, the ghost town effect didn’t last very long here.
Yes, it’s not quite the ghost town of a couple months ago, but things still aren’t back to normal. We have a new Walmart just a few blocks from here, and I go there maybe once a month, to get things I can’t find anywhere else.
You say Arby’s has diabetic-friendly milkshakes? I’ll have to try one.
Things look to be kinda normal around here. I’m in a tourist area mountain community though. It’s very hot in Denver and people are still coming up to the mountains.
Now back in March and April it was a ghost town/county. Parking on Main St? Unbelievable. I will say it was nice having the roads empty.
