Post by Honolulu on Mar 24, 2020 23:39:29 GMT
......going out very early in the morning on Black Friday!
So I went out yesterday to pick up a Domino's pizza, and also swung by Sam's Club (and shot into the Walmart next door, since I was out) to pick up an online order, and was once again reminded how (relatively) empty the streets seem to be, as opposed to traffic on a normal day, but yet, when you get to a store, there are plenty of people, all shopping as if there's absolutely nothing odd going on (other than a preponderance of people wearing surgical masks, which you don't normally see).
Suddenly it struck me how similar it is if you've ever gone out very early on a Black Friday morning.......i.e., not a lot of people out on the streets, but PLENTY of people at the stores getting what they need/want.
Just a very, very odd feeling in general.....
SAVE FERRIS
Oh thank GOD someone besides me noticed that weird shit too! It's been going on a lot longer than when the Coronavirus became a pandemic. I noticed it about 6 years ago actually and it has gotten worse and worse. I don't know where they all came from! Or they do this instead, most of them hide somewhere unseen as you are heading to a store and by the time you arrive at the store, somehow they caught up to you and moments later, there is a line forming behind you as you enter the store. The 3rd thing they do is stay almost unseen until you get into the store, then about 3 minutes later, either a large crowd or small enters the store. They move like a hive mind as well and for some god awful reason, they group up together like molecules attracting each other. It's like invisible herding or something. They just always tend to get in each other way or in your way no matter how you evade or move!
Oh and some of them are already outside pretending to be busy. Thry pass by like on their way somewhere rlse until they see you go into a store.
The shit is creeping me out big time. Then you reach the checkout and the line gets even longer behind you. The cashier is forced to speed up their work and multi-task to accomodate the line.