Is Social Distancing Being Enforced at This Bar?

[sysprog]

I went to a bar last night that had recently re-opened. From the entry area to the service station, all the seats were occupied, and people were standing near the occupants, but past the service station, the bar was completely unoccupied, and there was a sign:

Detail:

I didn't want to take a picture of the patrons, but they were there at full density, dutifully heeding the posted restriction.

 

[Vanadium 50]

When hair cutting became legal again, there was a huge scrum of at least 30 people milling around the entrance - because only one person was allowed inside.

 

[hutchphd]

Ya can't fix stupid.
It turns out that you can't quarantine it either.

Good luck to all.

 

[Vanadium 50]

I'm still trying to figure out why ice cream trucks are essential businesses, and not mobile disease spreaders.

 

[Tom.G]

But ice cream is FOOD! Of course they are essential
(ding-a-ling ding-a-ling)

 

[russ_watters]

Oops.

I'm still trying to figure out why ice cream trucks are essential businesses, and not mobile disease spreaders.

But ice cream is FOOD! Of course they are essential
(ding-a-ling ding-a-ling)

Mobile mental health services provider.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Mobile mental health services provider.

Just the opposite. If I hear Turkey In The Straw one...more...time...

 

[sysprog]

Just the opposite. If I hear Turkey In The Straw one...more...time...

I agree wholeheartedly $-$ in the '60s they were mostly tricycles with bells $-$ in the '70s there was an enterprising guy who ran medium-hard rock 'n roll from his little truck $-$ heaven knows what else besides ice cream he might have been selling -- he had a curiously avid teenage following . . .

Most of the paletas vendors in Chicago still use bells and pedal carts or walking pushcarts.

My annoyance at the loud 'turkey in the straw' noisemakers is mitigated by sympathy for the poor guy who works the truck and has to endure it all day long. It feels quite strange to wish deafness on someone out of a sense of mercy. It's an unenviable job.

 

[Vanadium 50]

by sympathy for the poor guy who works the truck and has to endure it all day long.

I bet he knows his state capitals well. "There's Baton Rouge Louisiana, Indianapolis Indiana..."

 

[strangerep]

If I hear Turkey In The Straw one...more...time...

Heh, heh, I didn't know that about US culture. In my part of the world it's this one, i.e., Greensleeves, which some have called "depressing" and "creepy". Even so, it still made all the little kids in the neighborhood rush out onto the street (clothed, or not).

 

[phinds]

Heh, heh, I didn't know that about US culture. In my part of the world it's this one, i.e., Greensleeves, which some have called "depressing" and "creepy". Even so, it still made all the little kids in the neighborhood rush out onto the street (clothed, or not).

Ouch ! Couple of sour notes in that one