Here today in New York it was announced that the MTA Metropolitan Transit Authority has planned to raise the fair again.
This goes for Buses, Subways, Toll fares and Long Island Railroad travel.
If anything, transportation fares should be reduced. They need to be going down instead of up!
Prices on everything as it is are already sky-high, exceeding the limits of people’s pocket books.
Soon the entire cost of living will be too expensive for any of us to live by.
Another new year is here!
Everyone should always endeavor to love and respect themselves along with striving to constantly stay in good health.
Eat healthily, live healthily and think positively!
Have a healthy New Year.
People were active and about last night, crowds in the stores doing last minute shopping for Christmas dinner, Christmas presents, and whatever else.
It was cold and windy out, but I braved through the brutal temperatures to pick up extra food and toiletries to cover me for the weekend.
While I am not interested or motivated by the inspired events of Black Friday, I do appreciate a good sale when it comes to grocery shopping.
Yesterday, I happened to check one of my local supermarket’s weekly online circulars as I do periodically to see if any of my favorite or useful household products were on sale, and I was in luck!
My local Stop and Shop was having a major blowout that began on Friday and will end this coming Thursday.
After work, I went and picked up some vegetables, fruits and other essential items at very affordable prices.
When I regularly worked in retail we had sales advertised just about every day- latoya lawrence
Well, today, many around different states took, and are still taking advantage of the after- holiday, next-day holiday sales, to lure eager customers into emptying their loads of wallets and pocketbooks.
I am glad to not be a part of that notorious hustle and bustle.
There is nothing wrong with shopping from time to time or shopping frequently if one can afford to spend.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with treating oneself.
I am one into wise shopping when I take part and indulge.
It is good to pick up items ahead of time at a low price to store up things that we need for later use.
This action saves one money and gives way to better convenience and financial budgeting.
It is good to take advantage of a sale or bargain when the opportunity presents itself.
Nevertheless, I was never one into the craze over Black Friday.
I never intentionally went shopping on that day, I never understood the impulse the draw had on many.
I worked at quite a few department stores and still was not tempted to hunt for a deal.
I hated how our managers instructed us employees who had certain major positions to be at the stores by 5am to get the sales floor ready to prepare for the surge of customers before the doors to our retail outlets opened.
People literally tore the store up in their haste and disorder.
I used to hear on the news how some people were killed during stampedes caused by those who were in a rush, carelessly bombarding their ways through the crowds of other impetuous people.
I remember standing out in the cold while it was still dark outside one November, the day after Thanksgiving. I was waiting early that morning for a bus to catch, all for the sake of a job needing me to be there to help line up things for Black Friday- it was so ridiculous.
I am fully vaccinated yet I still continue to wear a mask at all times when I am out and at work.
It doesn’t bother me if others choose not to wear a mask.
To each his or her own.
In the beginning of the covid crisis when everyone was panicking, I hated wearing a mask. I only started to wear them when it became mandatory.
Now that everything has calmed down, and masks are no longer a requirement within all places as they once were, I have gotten used to wearing them since it’s been so long.
I, of course, still hang the mask down to my chin regularly to breath clear air. The masks can be rather suffocating at times.
I have never had Covid (thank goodness), hopefully, one day there will be no more mask-wearing at all in regard to Covid precautions, and no more susceptibility to it.
Last Sunday, on August 21, 2022, I was on my way to work.
A black guy who sat in a parked white-colored style jeep asked me for directions to a restaurant (a place called “Top Romain”) within the area that I had never heard of.
He asked me about three times, I told him “Never heard of the place. If I did, I would let you know”.
This guy thanked me, and I walked about my way.
Afterwards I had a funny feeling about him. At first, I wasn’t going to respond to him, and I should not have.
Yet, what is the harm in helping someone find their way unless one gets a bad vibe from them.
Some people do play games.
Three or four blocks down ahead, this same black guy was parked on the street by the curb. He uttered to me, “I don’t know where it is”.
Obviously, this guy circled the block and drove ahead to catch up to me.
I completely ignored him as I kept on walking.
This could have been a sicko randomly looking for someone to rape, kidnap or who knows what else.
Or he could have even been sent. If so, I could definitely pinpoint from where since I have no enemies around and have not had any problems with anyone except for a few jealous people at my last Amazon job.
I had never seen this guy before. I called the police right away and gave a description. I don’t play that nonsense.
He could be a danger to others just in case he already committed some vile crime already within the distant past or present.
A Japanese man has died on a flight from Mexico City after ingesting 246 bags of cocaine.
The flight, bound for Japan’s Narita International Airport, had to make an emergency landing in Mexico’s Sonora state after he began to have seizures.
Authorities said the man, identified as Udo N, died of a cerebral oedema caused by a drug overdose.
The passenger transferred to the flight after starting his journey in the Colombian capital Bogotá.
According to a statement by Sonora’s attorney general, the bags – measuring 2.5cm long and 1cm wide – were found in his stomach and intestines during the autopsy.
The remaining 198 passengers aboard were able to continue their journey after the emergency landing in the city of Hermosillo.
Mexico’s federal authorities will take over the investigation.
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