My Excursions Yesterday

 I went to a German hardware store (Hornbach) and a grocery operation (all in the Wiesbaden region) yesterday.  So some observations:

1.  This week, the Covid rules changed....meaning you can walk into a store now...without a mask.  Now, if you asking about how many people still wear a mask?  I'd say near 75-percent.  

2.  A curious episode developed at the hardware store.  I rounded a corner, and here were a retired couple (I'd say both were around 65 years old).  The German gal was giving her husband a lecture (finger-pointing and blunt chatter).  Topic?  Well....he was wearing a mask, but it was down below his nose (so it really wasn't effective).  The wife was all torn-up over this behavior....giving him a long lecture on the proper way to wear the mask.  

My general take.....he just didn't want to wear the mask and the wife was still consumed over health worries.  

I stood there for about forty seconds....viewing this.  I didn't want to get tangled up in this....but I kinda wish I'd gone up and defended the poor guy.

3.  The grocery trip?  Well....shelves are empty.  Bananas?  None.  Whole area was empty.

Looking over fruit and vegetables....I'd say that bananas were the worst situation, but several shelves for the salad or carrots.....pretty sparse.

Then it came time to enter the chips aisle.  Anything with sunflower oil in the production?  Zero.  Nothing.

Either people had bought them out, or production has gone to almost nothing.  

I moved from aisle to aisle.  The cookie area?  The premium cookie shelf was empty.  

The flour and sugar aisle....mostly empty.  

My wife? Consumed with buying as many noodle products as possible....expecting the price to double over the next three months.