The Daily Peeve / Rant

[JaneV2.0]

Yesterday I was at the grocery store and not one but two men stand right next to me in line, shoulders practically touching. I snarled at both of them to back off. One guy I had to say it twice and point to his X on the floor and told him that's where he's supposed to be. Next time I growl. And maybe give a swift kick. Not in the mood to suffer fools.

I appreciate grocery delivery more every day.

[iris lilies]

I appreciate grocery delivery more every day.

You know, I never got Instacart off the ground. I signed up for an account and I put some things in the cart and kind of got distracted about how it’s gonna work and then during the height of the virus lockdown I couldn’t make sense of how to get deliveries to our house at a time when we would be here. We still go to Hermann a few days a week.And I could not make sense of the time pick up either.

When I did on site grocery shopping during the height of lockdown I liked going in during senior citizen time at the grocery store down the street.

[JaneV2.0]

I use Amazon Fresh and schedule my delivery in the 7 to 9 AM slot. So far, I've had only a few substitutions, and everything has been delivered by about 7:20. Because I have Prime, delivery is free, but I usually tip generously. I'm totally spoiled. And I've recently found an Indian grocer that delivers, to that opens up more possibilities.

[herbgeek]

I'm annoyed that my spouse thinks everything I want to do is too dangerous (covid). I mentioned going to a local brewery that has outside pouring, and a large area where you can bring your personal chairs and site them away from everyone else. Nope. I mentioned a winery that has wine slushies, and that I would go in with a mask and do the ordering, bring them outside and we could again put our chairs away from everyone else. Nope. Beaches are too crowded, so are local hiking trails. A couple of towns over, they have weekly outdoor concerts. Doesn't want to have to wear a mask for 2 hours. The only thing he's willing to do is drive around in the car, on the same roads we go all the time. I feel so mentally "itchy", and wanting to get out and (distantly) be around other people. I feel completely isolated. The only people I see are related to me - and spouse wasn't crazy about my nephew visiting last weekend even though he had a negative covid test the day he left.

I had a tough time getting him out of the house to do things before the pandemic. Now its 100x worse, with no end in sight.

My town of 12000 has had a total of 30 cases over 5 months, and the areas we are visiting are rural and even lower rates.

[Tybee]

Herb, I would do the beaches and the hiking trails and maybe the concert. We had four wineries here identified as Covid spots in the contact tracing in our county a few weeks ago. Also four pubs. Maybe I would skip those two types of places?

[Teacher Terry]

We have been to outside dining or pubs that are following all the rules.

[frugal-one]

I'm annoyed that my spouse thinks everything I want to do is too dangerous (covid). I mentioned going to a local brewery that has outside pouring, and a large area where you can bring your personal chairs and site them away from everyone else. Nope. I mentioned a winery that has wine slushies, and that I would go in with a mask and do the ordering, bring them outside and we could again put our chairs away from everyone else. Nope. Beaches are too crowded, so are local hiking trails. A couple of towns over, they have weekly outdoor concerts. Doesn't want to have to wear a mask for 2 hours. The only thing he's willing to do is drive around in the car, on the same roads we go all the time. I feel so mentally "itchy", and wanting to get out and (distantly) be around other people. I feel completely isolated. The only people I see are related to me - and spouse wasn't crazy about my nephew visiting last weekend even though he had a negative covid test the day he left.

I had a tough time getting him out of the house to do things before the pandemic. Now its 100x worse, with no end in sight.

My town of 12000 has had a total of 30 cases over 5 months, and the areas we are visiting are rural and even lower rates.

You are not alone. I mentioned a few of those things too and got a negative response. DH is an introvert so this does not bother him as much. I went to a local outdoor farmer's market this past week by myself and was excited just to get away and see people. We don't have family so this is especially difficult.

[SteveinMN]

I understand some of DH's reticence -- your exposure is his exposure. You going inside to pick up a couple of slushies does expose you more than staying outside entirely (or staying home). But your collective mental health is important, too. And a five-minute exposure with everyone wearing masks and disinfectant wipes/hand sanitizer present in an area of low incidence (at least as far as anyone knows right now) is, I think, a fair trade-off for something you would enjoy doing. I don't know as it's possible to live a functional life and avoid any exposure to the virus.

DW and I have concluded that we're going to have to choose our exposures for the foreseeable future. We take the precautions we can take, we try not to amass a full day of exposure, and we realize that 1) saying 'yes' to one thing may require saying 'no' to another. We think this will keep us fairly safe -- and sane. Battening down the hatches totally for a month or two was one thing, but this is turning into a marathon, not a sprint. A different approach makes sense.

[Yppej]

Poison ivy.

[Tybee]

Last night one of our ancient maple trees got hit by lightening and this morning it is in my backyard, having fallen and taken out my fence, part of my pole barn, my electric to the pole barn.
We are already under so much stress and our ideas about how to handle this are already different and at odds with each other. My husband just stated he wanted to build a second woodshed to hold all the wood. This seems to me insane since we are already planning to move and have a completely full woodshed that I have been begging him to clear out by selling the wood on Craigslist.

We have been making offers on other houses in another state. We are trying to sell a property that we bought, ill-advised, in the pandemic. Now he is angry with me because I shut down his woodshed idea.

I just want all this s$$t to go away.