Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Glen, wasn't that a Braums? And they had Bread? They must be open because they have groceries.
Seems like a lot of eateries have closed or at least their dining rooms.
Zarate's did a facebook post that you can call and pickup food at the door, but their dining room is closed.
Seems like a lot of services like grubhub, and doordash are still delivering food, but the just ring and run like UPS.
I know Jimmy Johns delivers, had a sammuch last night.

[GH85Carrera]

Yes, Braum's is open. When I was there there was no other customers there. They of course have the drive through for food. I assume they will take a to go order at the counter. I just went to get the three items and I was out of there.

They did have large areas of some items still out of stock. The bread area was only 1/2 stocked, but plenty for now. I suspect they are baking all they can and rationing it to the stores. Since they bake their own bread, own their own delivery trucks, and control everything from the farms to the stores they know the demand is up, and I have to assume they are doing what they can to get the product to the stores. Getting employees in to work at the dairy and bakery and truck drivers is likely part of the challenge.

[RKDinOKC]

SIL is posting on FB about the truck stops, gas stations, and restaurants closing and truckers not being able to deliver. The States are even closing the rest stops these guys sleep at.

Noticed some restaurants are allowing truckers to walk up to their drive in windows.

[Porsche-poor]

well working from home I now have Glen's commute. The cat and dog both get in the way.

[Jim Richards]

Make sure to social distance from them.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

well working from home I now have Glen's commute. The cat and dog both get in the way.

Be sure to kiss your wife "goodby and off to work!"

[Porsche-poor]

that will get me shot as she is still sleeping.

[GH85Carrera]

I was chatting with an friend of mine that is 88 years old. Great guy and he mentioned he just went to get a annual physical a few weeks back before the madness of the pandemic set in. He said he had a new nurse asking questions about his health. One questions was do you have a good sex life. He paused and said miss, I am 88 years old, my sex life has been just a memory for many years.

My buddies wife turned 85 today so I had told him to wish her happy birthday.

[Porsche-poor]

The mother-in-law is 80 and has copd so we are shopping for her as best we can. She is close to just going out and doing her own thing cause after all she is an adult...………

We are saving the final last argument till the end. "Given that hospitals no longer allow visitors if you catch this you will die alone"

[flipper35]

I have been working on the steering column, shaft, wheel adapter and all that crap so I can get it back in the car. Not sure I like the new adapter and sure didn't like the old plastic sleeve one. This one is 2.5 inches and has both 5 and 6 bolt patterns so I have more choice in steering wheels. The thread of the old one are coming apart after 10 years in the desert. Might go with a Corsa, Sparco, GT. Not sure. With the camel color and chrome rings on white gauges I am not sure if I will go back to black spokes or brushed aluminium or chrome. With 2.5 inches I can go 13-15 inches and still have room for my knuckles. The 13.5" I had on there I would put turn signals on by accident as they brushed the stalk.

David, if I said that to my mom she would ask why everyone is picking on her.

[RKDinOKC]

Friend in Austin and his wife were going to come visit his mom here in OKC last weekend. BUT the home is closed to visitors. Told him my work would not allow me to leave the State without a 14 day quarantine from going in to work when I get back. (Though I don't know how work would know I went on a weekend trip).

My commute has been a hallway commute from since before Glen's, over 10 years. Instead of dogs and cats my traffic was a talking dog and a 90 yo with dementia. If you are working and the dog comes in and says "I wan OUT," you have to stop and go let her out.

Instead of shopping for had to always take her. In fact, we went 3 times a week, made her push the cart, and we went down every isle of the store. It was her exercise therapy. Pushing the cart was like using a walker. Felt weird after she passed to not only go shopping less, but only go down the isles I need something on. Now is even weirder, for the last 5 months have been using instacart and getting my groceries delivered once a week. This week they will start doing ring and run instead of bringing them into my kitchen.

[flipper35]

We are screening all employees, vendors and what few visitors we allow. Temp and questionnaire type screening.

We would make people self quarantine if they go to a movie, party, travel or anything like that.

[RKDinOKC]

Nobody, visitor or vendor, is allowed unless specifically screened by security. People that can work from home have been setup for and do. One of the programmers posted that he likes the new commute and thinks he gets more work done. His kids have all moved out.

Don't know what people are doing that their kids spring break has turned into 3 or 4 weeks.

[flipper35]

I get a ton more work done when working from home.

We even screen all employees. Every person coming to our campus is screened. All but one employee entrances is secured. Everyone else gets stopped at the front door. Since our Wellness center is closed, that staff is doing all the employee screening.

For us, it is hard to determine who can work from home. Should finance? If so, how do they print checks, get bills. Housekeeping can't work from home, nor can maintenance. All the med staff has to be here.

[GH85Carrera]

Our hose cleaners came today. I was really happy they did not try to work from home and phone us with instructions.

My business partner is flying back from Florida today. I am not going to get close to him for two weeks. No way.

[RKDinOKC]

We have a lot of employees that can't work from home.

Just had our employee meeting that is usually a day of meetings with different areas. That was all done with a video this week. I always attend remotely, don't really know when and where employees watched, but think the idea was to not have them all get together in groups.

[High Life]

Im in a hotel room in Minneapolis MN.. Embassy suites - 13 cars in the lot

Lady at the front counter said I was the first person to check in today.. It was 5:30pm in the evening

[RKDinOKC]

The Corona Virus started in China. The first thing we notice, stores run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper was first invented in China. Coincidence?

[GH85Carrera]

One of my wife's nephews (my nephew in law?) in in college. He went to the store for more TP and discovered the shortage due to hoarding. Like most 20 something kids he went online to research why, and found a link about the history of toilet paper.

He was stunnned to discover it did not come into common use until the early 1950s. He called his great grandmother, my MIL and asked what people did before then. She told his that they all used the pages from a catalog. Sears catalogs were the most common. Of course he asked how that would flush. She laughed and said they went to the back yard to the "two holer" and explained what an outhouse was, a stinky hole in the ground with a shed around it. He was flabbergasted. He was more stunned to learn she did not have running water in the house until she got married and moved into the city where her husband had a job.

The Chinese and the French claim to have invented almost everything.

Joseph Gayetty is widely credited with being the inventor of modern commercially available toilet paper in the United States. Gayetty's paper, first introduced in 1857, was available as late as the 1920s. Gayetty's Medicated Paper was sold in packages of flat sheets, watermarked with the inventor's name.

For the big cities it might have been available. For the majority of the country before 1950 was rural farm land and rather rare I suspect. Many farms did not get electricity and phone service until the 1950s.

[RKDinOKC]

Scott was the first company to make rolls of toilet paper. It had splinters.
Northern was first to advertise splinterless rolls of toilet paper.

Chinese have records of making and using toilet paper in the 1600's for their upper classes.

People didn't use tne medicated paper even though medical meant it had aloe. Catalogs and farmer's almanacs were free. The Farmer's Almanac even had a hole to hang it in the outhouse for reading and using.

People started buyng paper because cstalogs, etc clogged indoor toilets.
50% of people used water including the bidet.

Grandmother's house was in a smll town the indoor toilet was an addon added to the back of the house. She had a dirty TO trash can to keep the plumbing from clogging.

Romans had a bucket of water and a stick with a sea sponge on the end. When done put it back in the bucket. That's where "grabbing the ****ty end of the stick" came from.