My first visit to the Caribbean was a solo trip to Jamaica. This was thirty some years ago and cannabis was treated differently than it is today. Although I smoked a ton, I was careful to leave it behind. I had my breakfast chef cook half an ounce and put it in my omelette. The rest I gave away to my cabdriver.
On arrival to the US, I (sporting a beard and ponytail) was pulled aside for interrogation. I was totally at ease, knowing I was clean, but also obviously stoned. They went through my luggage with a fine toothed comb, and seemed angry not to find anything. I was asked “what was the purpose of your visit to Jamaica” over and over.
Mostly I avoid crowded indoor spaces; and there isn’t really any public transportation available to me. (There’s one bus you can call, but it makes one large circle at an awkward time and not mostly to the places I go to.)
If there were public transport, and it were crowded, I’d wear a mask. If I’m going to have to spend a while in a crowded indoor space, I’d wear one. But I just haven’t done either of those in some time; so I took ‘other’ and ‘around immunocompromised people’ which does come up occasionally.
I was at an over the board chess tournament recently, and wore a mask during my games since some stranger would be breathing in my face for a couple of hours.
We have a board game convention next week, I will likely be masking intermittently depending on the group and size.
When we moved internationally, the declaration was done when the stuff arrived, which was some days after our flight.
When returning from Scotland, we had about 500 mL Scotch above the limit. We went through the correct line to declare it. They didn’t want to deal with the paperwork for such a small amount.
For some odd reason, one time when we flew into Newark, they decided to do a deep scan of our suitcase. I had written down that we bought chocolate, but it was well below the minimum. But that wasn’t a separate lane - everybody goes through the same line and then gets separated out.
In a few weeks I will be going on a cruise with my elderly parents. I might be wearing a mask in the interior spaces, especially elevators.
I wore a mask on a plane when travelling to the Phillipines for a scuba diving holiday. Normally getting a bug is a minor inconvenience but you can not dive if suffering from any cogestion so I took an extra level of precaution as a cold / flu / covid would ocmpletely ruin an expensive holiday.
I will happily wear a mask if requested to for some reason, but it’s not something I have thought about in a long time. Occasionally I see a person with a mask in a store, but it is rare.
I haven’t worn a mask since around late 2021. That was when places that requested mask wearing stopped doing so (the mandate ended earlier that year). My SO’s dentist requested that patients wear masks a while longer than that, but my dentist and our doctors didn’t.
I just checked and my mask is buried in the glovebox of my truck, so I have one if it’s ever needed.
I picked “other” because in the main bathroom, there’s no roll-holder, only one of those tubes that holds four rolls. You can’t really reach them unless there’s at least three. I suppose we could change that, but we never have. The other bathrooms have a roll-holder attached to the wall, so one roll, refilled as needed.
I wear a mask in crowded places and when traveling. I also make sure I have a supply handy for when there’s a spike in Covid (based on wastewater monitoring, since there’s very little solid data nowadays otherwise), and I wear them to most populated places during those times. I’m a bit more cautious than many just because I live with a high-risk person. I’m really invested in not getting Covid this fall/winter, because my daughter is pregnant and due in December. I don’t want to carry Covid to her when we visit, and I certainly don’t want to be unable to see the baby when it arrives!
We keep a bunch of toilet paper in the bathroom cabinets and restock when the supply gets down to one roll. It’s terrible to be stuck without TP in an upstairs bathroom when the large packages of it are downstairs in the laundry room!
I still wear a mask fairly often. I wear it on public transit, including airplanes and airports. I wear it at the drug store. (Sick people go to drugstores all the time.) I wear it when i dance, since that’s both close and energetic. I wore it last week at a group singing event.
I’ve stopped wearing it at most retail places and in friends’ homes. But it’s fairly common in my social circles for people to ask everyone to test for covid before a large gathering.
When the roll of toilet paper that’s currently in the holder starts to get low, I’ll pull a fresh roll out of the cabinet, and set it on the windowsill next to the toilet. Said windowsill has a flat, horizontal “shelf,” and works well for said purpose.
I try to be mindful about keeping a backup roll on top of the flush tank at all times. There might be a little bit of lag time after the previous backup has gone on the spindle, but I don’t like to let it go very long because it’s way too easy for “not very long” to turn into “too long.”
You don’t. But during that part of the proceedings the dentist (and any dental assistant in the room) will be wearing a mask and generally nobody else is within immediate breathing distance.
In the waiting room, if one patient doesn’t have to wear a mask, the next one doesn’t either; and then you’ve got unmasked people potentially breathing on each other.
Plus which, both getting ill at all and how ill you get can be affected by how much virus you get in you. So keeping people masked while not actively being dentisted upon keeps down the amount of virus in the total facility, reducing everybody’s chances of significant illness.
Having typed all that – my dentists and at least most of the doctors quit requiring masks some time ago; though the dentists, as they did before covid, still mask while working on a patient.
– both of my bathrooms have shelves within reach of the toilet and I keep at least one and usually several rolls there. As I don’t go to town very often there’s an additional supply in a spare room, and reasonably soon after either bathroom gets down to around one backup roll I fill them both back up from the backup supply (and put tp back on the shopping list, depending on how much is left in the spare room after doing this.)
The toilet paper thing kind of depends which bathroom it’s in. I store TP under the sink in the master bathroom. So if it’s running low in the master bathroom, no problem. If I run out I can grab another roll from under the sink; it’s right next to the toilet and I can reach it from there, albeit it’s a bit of a stretch. For the main bathroom, I will put a backup roll on top of the toilet tank if it’s getting low, since all the spare TP is in the other bathroom.
I answered the poll for the main bathroom, since that’s the one I poop in most often.
