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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Wow- I'd get tired of that too. Mine is 10 minutes (Great Clips; walk in type place) and I normally fight them off to stop blow drying. Mine naturally curls, and I don't like their blow-dried pouf version.
Since it take about 10 minutes, it felt relatively Coronavirus safe. (But I've only had it cut once since this all started.)
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NYC on lockdown was mostly an annoyance here. The SO and I are homebodies who don't go out all that often, so most places to go being shut wasn't a big deal. The supermarket (a Trader Joes) was open, as was the local Target for non-food purchases, as were the markets in Chinataown where my SO shops for Chinese ingredients like roast pork, the greenmarket where she gets seasonal produce, and the Chinese restaurant across the street where we get Chow Fun. (SO has a wheat allergy, so normal noodles are right out. Rice noodles are fine.) The Chinese place was mostly takeout and delivery before COVID-19 hit, so not badly affected.
The biggest issues were little things, like the self serve laundries being closed, so getting laundry done involved dropping of a bag at a place that did it for you and retrieving it when done, at about three times the cost of DIY.
The other big annoyance was no place to get a haircut. Fortunately, I didn't need to go anywere where being exceptionally shaggy would be an issue. When the barber I normally use reopened, I said "Drag out the hedge clippers and prune it back!" They did, and I am much happier. I was amused by folks complaining that their dog groomer worked from home, and they could drop the dog off, get it groomed, and pick it up later, but couldn't get their own hair cut. Er, say "Woof!" and pretend you're a dog?
Life is seeping back into NYC, fueled by alcohol. Alcohol was classed as an essential in New York State, so liquor stores have been open throughout. Various bar/restaurants around me with street facing windows have set up tables with bottles at the front, and you specify what you want and get served in a takeout container. People hang out on the street with their friends and drink.
Lockdown has relaxed to the point where you can't sit
in a restaurant to dine, but can eat outside. So various places have had carpenters busy creating outdoor dining areas in the lane nearest the curb where cars would normally park, and are doing very well, thank you. This will change as winter comes in, but meanwhile... Technically, outdoor dining requires a city permit, but I understand applications for one are approved same day.
I await with amused interest for things to return to enough like normal that patrons
can again drink
in a bar. In Manhattan, at least, it's been demonstrated that people can drink outside responsibly. I see the city having lots of fun trying to reimpose bans on public drinking. I don't see that genie being stuffed back into the bottle.
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Dennis