How is the lockdown affecting you personally?

[S.A. Boggs]

I need front tires and can't find any to buy...everything is locked up tight as a drum. I am hoping after 4 May stores reopen. Church services in the parking lot, wife and daughter working full time. Eating in the truck fast food instead of going in, otherwise not much else.
Sam

[Roadkingtrax]

No National Matches, No Oktoberfest in Munich for us.

2020 officially sucks (if it didn't already).

[Vern Humphrey]

Eating in the truck fast food instead of going in, otherwise not much else.
Sam

That's about it for us -- we have lunch in town every day.

[barretcreek]

Lots of parking on Main Street, grocery is getting restocked. Saw the owner of the breakfast joint, she said they are all getting by and looking forward to reopening 2 May.
I am not dependent on tourists but those who are want to get back to work. Building trades are concerned as lots of pending jobs are on indefinite hold, more due to $$ than virus.

[clintonhater]

I need front tires and can't find any to buy...

Even in lockdown-crazy NY, auto garages, many of which sell tires, are considered "essential."

[Gun Smoke]

I need front tires and can't find any to buy...everything is locked up tight as a drum.

Sam's club, Walmart?

Where I live the tire stores are still open. One place in particular will mount new or used tires that I buy off of ebay.

As far as the lockdown goes my wife misses going to the YMCA and clucking with her friends there.

We don't eat out much anyway so we're not affected much by the restaurant closings. Personally I don't like nor use the drive up windows due to the crappy speakers where you do your ordering. Some places you can order on-line and go pick it up but like I said, we really haven't missed this.

My daughter gets to work at home for now. She can't do everything needed though and she hopes to be able to go back to her office in a couple of weeks or so.

After 60 years we don't go to church much anymore either so those closures haven't affected us much.

Grocery stores, hardware stores, gun shops, the vet, auto parts shops, and where I live, tire shops, are open so that's about all the places I go anyway. I buy a LOT of stuff on line including Walmart but mostly ebay. Instead of getting items within 2-4 days it now takes 4-7 days depending where from and who the item comes from, so little changes there.

Making a short story even longer, it hasn't affected me much. If I can't find what I need I hunt and find it somewhere else.

[S.A. Boggs]

Sam's club, Walmart?

Where I live the tire stores are still open. One place in particular will mount new or used tires that I buy off of ebay.

As far as the lockdown goes my wife misses going to the YMCA and clucking with her friends there.

We don't eat out much anyway so we're not affected much by the restaurant closings. Personally I don't like nor use the drive up windows due to the crappy speakers where you do your ordering. Some places you can order on-line and go pick it up but like I said, we really haven't missed this.

My daughter gets to work at home for now. She can't do everything needed though and she hopes to be able to go back to her office in a couple of weeks or so.

After 60 years we don't go to church much anymore either so those closures haven't affected us much.

Grocery stores, hardware stores, gun shops, the vet, auto parts shops, and where I live, tire shops, are open so that's about all the places I go anyway. I buy a LOT of stuff on line including Walmart but mostly ebay. Instead of getting items within 2-4 days it now takes 4-7 days depending where from and who the item comes from, so little changes there.

Making a short story even longer, it hasn't affected me much. If I can't find what I need I hunt and find it somewhere else.

Walmart has closed TLE, nothing else open locally.
Sam

[Gun Smoke]

Walmart has closed TLE, nothing else open locally.
Sam

I don't know what is in your area. In my area there is too much. Are there car rental's in your area? I've rented from Enterprise. It only cost about $200 for the whole week (could have rented cheaper cars too) and they give you 500 miles a day free. Anything above that is so much per mile but who would average 500 miles a day over the course of a whole week?

Just a thought till the tire stores open.

[clintonhater]

One place in particular will mount new or used tires that I buy off of ebay.

That's the problem I've encountered with buying tires on-line--the people who sell them don't want to mount those you bought elsewhere! In the early days of the Automobile Age, motorists carried spare tires, not wheels, that drivers, or their chauffeurs, HAD to know how to mount themselves!

[lyman]

No National Matches, No Oktoberfest in Munich for us.

2020 officially sucks (if it didn't already).

got a note from a friend that has been every year since the mid 80's,

sucks the National Matches are closed,


eta, I am still working,

wife works from home and goes in the office a couple times a week to pick up and drop off more work,


my online sales are strong, even counting the larger number of deadbeat bidders

[Gun Smoke]

That's the problem I've encountered with buying tires on-line--the people who sell them don't want to mount those you bought elsewhere! In the early days of the Automobile Age, motorists carried spare tires, not wheels, that drivers, or their chauffeurs, HAD to know how to mount themselves!

A Goodyear store would certainly laugh at you.

This shop is locally owned. They sell used as well as new tires. For tires you bring in they charge $20ea for mounting, balancing and discarding the old tire so they make out OK. I usually tip the poor kid in the back who does all the work for little pay a few dollars.

[shadycon]

Same here I bought 2 E rated truck tires,1/2" of thread on them for $105 ea. delivered[2 days] on line. Local Mexican tire store charged $15 ea. mt/bal.

[Fred]

My wife and i are living so far from anyone else, we go for days without seeing any other people under normal conditions.
the little grocery store 15 miles away in Wahoo isn't frequented by anyone from elsewhere and neither is the ranch supply store.
We have to watch the news to see people wearing masks.

[Vern Humphrey]

My wife and i are living so far from anyone else, we go for days without seeing any other people under normal conditions.
the little grocery store 15 miles away in Wahoo isn't frequented by anyone from elsewhere and neither is the ranch supply store.
We have to watch the news to see people wearing masks.

We stopped by the bank (using the drive-up window) and when the teller passed out our receipt, she also gave us a pair of the skimpiest string bikini pants you ever saw.

Later on, our daughter told us we were wearing them wrong.

[S.A. Boggs]

We stopped by the bank (using the drive-up window) and when the teller passed out our receipt, she also gave us a pair of the skimpiest string bikini pants you ever saw.

Later on, our daughter told us we were wearing them wrong.

Vern, is your mask too tight?
Sam