Quote:
Originally Posted by phenomshel
Hello, all!
Just thought I'd pop in for a second. How is everyone?
|
Managing. NYC on lockdown is an interesting experience. SO Kat and I are homebodies who didn't go out a lot
before COVID-19, so most things being closed is at worst an inconvenience. (I do look forward to the local diner reopening.)
The supermarket (A Trader Joe's) is open, as is a local Target for non-food items (
cough toilet paper
cough), as well as markets in Chinatown and the Green Market where Kat shops.
The biggest inconvenience was the self-serve laundromats closed, and if you had laundry, you dropped it off at a place that did it for you and picked it up, for about three times the cost of DIY. Fortunately, the one we use has reopened. Getting a haircut is a bigger problem, but I don't have to go anywhere where being shaggy will be an issue. When my barber does reopen, I'll say "Drag out the hedge clippers and prune it back!" (My hair is thick and grows fast. Baldness does not run in my family. He'll
need hedge clippers.)
Amusingly, liquor is considered an essential in New York State, so the liquor stores are all open, though requiring masks and limiting the number of customers in store. And a Bar/restaurant east of me near Hospital Row on First Avenue is closed for normal dining, but has a side wi8ndow where you can get beer, wine, and cocktails to go. They also have a program they invite folks to contribute to to fund their production of free meals for medical personnel at the nearby hospitals. It provides a public service and helps them remain in business till normalcy returns.
A local custom that has arisen is that every evening at 7pm, windows open and locals yell and use noisemakers. It apparently began as a salute to front line medical works, but has turned into a general "We are all still alive, well, and coping" announcement.
How are
you doing?
______
Dennis