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Post by Mare on May 11, 2020 23:08:35 GMT
I don't have a mask or handkerchief. I haven't been out to any public place for nearly two months (deliveries only); but that can't last much longer, so I'll have to improvise one. I've seen several options, mostly based on old t-shirts. Any suggestions/recommendations? Terra, all I do is fold a large Levi Strauss red handkerchief in two, diagonally. I roll down a couple inches on the long side and then tie the ends around the back of my head. You could probably cut up an old T-shirt into a big square and do the same thing. Also, I found this online... www.latimes.com/lifestyle/story/2020-04-21/how-to-make-a-coronavirus-mask-out-of-a-t-shirt
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Post by donavan on May 11, 2020 23:27:41 GMT
A pair of Y-Fronts makes an instant mask.
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Post by Nonsuch Ned on May 14, 2020 16:58:45 GMT
Looooooots of videos out there... here's an obnoxious cool dad style embarrassment from an Oscar winner.
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Post by miles on May 14, 2020 18:54:45 GMT
โThere are three kinds of people. Those that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.โ -Unknown, often attributed to Will Rogers
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Post by Terra Incognita on May 15, 2020 16:23:02 GMT
I've made myself a couple of t-shirt masks -- one safer, but uglier than the other. Ordered online at a supermarket (items I can't get elsewhere), but must go in person to pick up -- no delivery offered.
Thanks for your suggestions!
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Post by Nonsuch Ned on May 15, 2020 17:47:10 GMT
I've actually ordered one myself too. It's a "neck gaiter" design with a filter pocket (hasn't arrived yet). I like the idea because I have a bad habit while going out of going somewhere with a mask on (I had a box of disposables already because of an earlier flu concern when when I was around my high risk mother), taking it off in the car, and then forgetting it in the car and needing to go back and get it. With a gaiter I leave it on my neck and pull it up.
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Post by Finntrovertigo on May 17, 2020 3:32:39 GMT
Rather annoyed--I took a walk earlier, and seeing a woman coming from the opposite direction, moved over to allow plenty of room. The dumb bitch apparently saw this as an invitation to walk towards me, so that I wound up walking off the path as far from her as I could and damn near running into some shrubbery. I then saw that she took a picture of me with her phone. I guess I am the butt of a joke on some "Hey, some pussies don't want to die" Facebook post.
JESUS MUTHAFUCKIN' CHRIST.
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Post by donavan on May 17, 2020 8:57:44 GMT
In the last seven weeks I haven't left the house/garden so I don't encounter such situations. Now the bastards from work have sent me a laptop and expect me to work from home. How very dare they!
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Post by Terra Incognita on May 19, 2020 22:18:06 GMT
We were told to take our laptops home one Friday afternoon just in case... And lo and behold, I am on my tenth week working from home with five kids underfoot 24/7.
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Post by donavan on May 19, 2020 22:27:15 GMT
'We were told to take our laptops home one Friday afternoon just in case.'
I don't have a laptop case.
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Post by miles on May 19, 2020 22:41:01 GMT
We were told to take our laptops home one Friday afternoon just in case... And lo and behold, I am on my tenth week working from home with five kids underfoot 24/7. This reads like the beginning of a story. Sometimes it seems we are only characters in some bastard's meta-fiction. More now than usual.
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Post by Mare on May 20, 2020 0:27:54 GMT
Rather annoyed--I took a walk earlier, and seeing a woman coming from the opposite direction, moved over to allow plenty of room. The dumb bitch apparently saw this as an invitation to walk towards me, so that I wound up walking off the path as far from her as I could and damn near running into some shrubbery. I then saw that she took a picture of me with her phone. I guess I am the butt of a joke on some "Hey, some pussies don't want to die" Facebook post. JESUS MUTHAFUCKIN' CHRIST.Those people drive me nuts, Intro! That would have made me jump out of my skin! UGH! Could you please sneeze the OTHER FREAKING WAY-do you not have a television or a phone or friends??? Don't trip over the rock you've been living under. (Of course now, I'm wearing a mask I don't just mutter it. For some reason, I am acting like nobody can hear where the vocalized anger is coming from. ) I have been chalking it up to being hangry but I think there are a lotta people with whom I am angry. Moral of this story: Never store up your anger by repressing it. Anger, like blood, will out.
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Post by Mare on May 20, 2020 0:33:39 GMT
A pair of Y-Fronts makes an instant mask. They make the best rags to polish furniture and clean wooden cupboard doors, also, don. Sigh. No such availability these days. (Tangent: back in the day, after I got married, it was obvious that someone needed new unterwagons. I bought a couple packs and gave them to him...he got all pissed off and said, "Whad'yadothatfor? My MOM buys my underwear." (Honestly, why can't I find the eyerolling emoji?)
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Post by Mare on May 20, 2020 0:36:12 GMT
We were told to take our laptops home one Friday afternoon just in case... And lo and behold, I am on my tenth week working from home with five kids underfoot 24/7. I think (Mom voice) that you are better off knowing where the hell they all are and close enough to check for symptoms. Plus, when they are all growed up, you will remember this chaos and think...I could have adapted better, I think.
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Post by Terra Incognita on May 31, 2020 20:57:37 GMT
Nnnnn...aw!
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