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What are your biggest memories from the quarantine days? (1 Viewer)

Frostillicus

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For me it's my daughter's drive by birthday. Her 12th birthday was April 18, 2020 so pretty much not long after everything got shut down. We somehow (god bless my wife) managed to organize a small group of family and friends to drive by with signs and honk and yell (maybe 12 cars total) and my kid had no idea and had assumed she would not have any kind of real birthday party and well, let's just say there were lots of tears amongst all of us involved.

Afterwards my parents and brother and his family came over and we all sat on the driveway, each family as far away from each other as possible, and when I threw everone a beer they took out their clorox wipes and wiped down the beer before opening it.

Honestly it was one of the most amazing days of my life. To be able to experience everyone coming together like that in the midst of uncertainty and a pretty scary world was pretty amazing.

Anyone else have anything that really stands out from those days? Negative memories are also welcome, although I am going to keep mine to myself.

Also, this should go without saying, but let's keep this out of the political realm.
 
Watching Old Crow Medicine Show’s Heartland Hootenanny show every week on Youtube. They’d do it live and my family across three different states would watch it together and connect through a group text over it.

That and when Dropkick Murphys did a free show right near the start - they were one of the first to start doing things like that.
 
I noticed a while ago that I have very few specific memories from the March 2020 through March 2021 era, and it seems almost taboo to talk about that period in my circles. Apparently there was a similar period of social forgetting after the Spanish flu, but of course none of us are in any position to have had first-hand experience of that one.
 
Halloween has always been kind of a big deal around here, but our neighborhood leveled up October 2020. We turned the corner and there were outdoor setups everywhere - bonfires, music (some live), displays (some haunted, others with dads playing **scare** characters), candy chutes, jumbo kids games (i.e. beat a dad in tic tac toe, take 5 king size bars), booze being handed out seemingly each block, then we all congregated at one house as trick or treat wrapped up and went deep into the night.

That started a new tradition that's now 4 years running now.
 
I was in an airport, mask on, and I had to sneeze. I pulled my mask down and buried my face in my arm to do so - you know, like you're supposed to.

A passerby shot me the snide comment of, "You had to pull your mask down to sneeze? :rolleyes: "

My wife had a very clever rejoinder..."Do you pull your underwear down when you pee?"
 
Frostillicus said:
For me it's my daughter's drive by birthday. Her 12th birthday was April 18, 2020 so pretty much not long after everything got shut down. We somehow (god bless my wife) managed to organize a small group of family and friends to drive by with signs and honk and yell (maybe 12 cars total) and my kid had no idea and had assumed she would not have any kind of real birthday party and well, let's just say there were lots of tears amongst all of us involved.

Afterwards my parents and brother and his family came over and we all sat on the driveway, each family as far away from each other as possible, and when I threw everone a beer they took out their clorox wipes and wiped down the beer before opening it.

Honestly it was one of the most amazing days of my life. To be able to experience everyone coming together like that in the midst of uncertainty and a pretty scary world was pretty amazing.

Anyone else have anything that really stands out from those days? Negative memories are also welcome, although I am going to keep mine to myself.

Also, this should go without saying, but let's keep this out of the political realm.
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We did the same 4/11/20 for my son's 5th birthday. At the time we lived on the corner of a rather busy intersection. Honks for hours, police and fire truck sirens, even the mailman got about 5 other mail trucks to drive by for a mini postal parade. Then came the family, maybe 4 cars deep, hanging out the windows and sunroof with signs and a megaphone. We also hung out in the front lawn with a cooler. Whodathunk stuff like that could make a 5 year old super happy. He had a perma-grin all day long. It's getting dusty in here just thinking about it.
 
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I was in an airport, mask on, and I had to sneeze. I pulled my mask down and buried my face in my arm to do so - you know, like you're supposed to.

A passerby shot me the snide comment of, "You had to pull your mask down to sneeze? :rolleyes: "

My wife had a very clever rejoinder..."Do you pull your underwear down when you pee?"
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Your wife is far too Minnesota nice. GFY was the correct response here, and one that should have been deployed much more freely during this period.
 
I remember the beginning of the pandemic the most. The first couple/few weeks when people were actually nice to each other. People would check on elderly neighbors to see if they needed supplies, food..etc. People would treat first responders and doctors and nurses as hero’s. I remember how the streets seemed empty of traffic, and in Southern California—the sky became so clear that you could see so much further into the horizon. I also remember how watching “The Last Dance” was an event for my friends and I. We would watch it and then group chat all about it. While there were many aspects of the pandemic that were a giant cluster—I felt like there were some aspects that were actually kinda beautiful .
 
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My buddy was living and working on a cannabis farm about 30 miles outside of Portland. When even the public parks got shut down we built a custom 9 hole disc golf course at the farm house. We had three baskets and then we made three different tee pads to each basket for 9 holes. So pretty much every weekend for a few months we pack up coolers and hang out at the farm and play rounds, skins games, drink, smoke and had a great time in isolation way out in the middle of nowhere. There was also an old brick fireplace that was converted to a big fire pit for camp fires and cooking out.
 
Watching a guy pull a mask up over his face and then stride quickly into a 7-11. It just struck me how different the perception of that scene would have been just a few weeks earlier.

I wish I had taken pictures of all of the empty store shelves, that was surreal.

And a month or two in I remember taking a lawn chair out to the driveway with a beer and my iPad to watch something, and hoping people would walk by that I could interact with.

ETA: and driving down Lombard St in San Francisco, looking in the rear view mirror and for blocks and blocks not a single car in sight.
 
Working my *** off while having my entire 1st floor redone. We had a water leak at the house and long story short, it resulted in us being able to redo our entire first floor in hardwood via insurance. We planned a trip to Washington DC the first week of March 2020 so they could do the work. On Wednesday they called after putting the floor down and said we had a water leak in the middle of the floor that had to be fixed before they could proceed. The next week the world shut down so we had to go get our freshman at the University of SC and we began life in lock down with an unfinished 1st floor. We eventually got everything fixed but it took about 6 months for a one week job.

The division of the company I work for was/is responsible for indoor air quality so while all this was going on, I was working 12-13 hour days trying to find equipment to keep us going. At the start we had about 1700 pieces of air quality equipment for 120 locations across the country. By the time COVID ended, we had well over 8000 pieces and I bought every single one of them. Was a very busy time.
 
Having to cancel my first trip to Spring Training. I typically cannot go because of my son's games/season but that right before his high school career started and he didn't have anything planned for that weekend. We were set to go on Friday and then on Thursday MLB cancelled the rest of spring training so we cancelled the trip. Then high school started and his season coincides (obviously) with Spring Training so haven't been able to go.
 
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We were two weeks away from going on a Disney cruise when things shut down. Instead we got a puppy. 🤷‍♂️

The FBG stock thread blew up for a while.
 
IvanKaramazov said:
I noticed a while ago that I have very few specific memories from the March 2020 through March 2021 era, and it seems almost taboo to talk about that period in my circles. Apparently there was a similar period of social forgetting after the Spanish flu, but of course none of us are in any position to have had first-hand experience of that one.
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I think I likely shouldn't post some of the things this thread title conjures up BUT I want to say that unlike other posters, I won't make it about me and try to have the thing locked up
It would be easy to point out how many things mandated/forced but in hindsight we now realize....you see where this could go and then people start throwing food at each other

Good Stuff: I lost a lot of weight focusing on my health and daily routines. Mrs and I now work out of the house 4 days a week and get to see each other throughout the day.
No really, that's a great thing, we're much closer and we are working together on fixing up our home here in South Florida with properties soaring thru the roof.
Financially, we've done very well since watching the market bottom out and that's enough of that....

Bad Stuff: M_sks, M_nd_tes and M_il In B_llots...I'd like to buy a vowel please

Our current lifestyle would not be like this if it were not for the Covid, good/bad/both, and while it really hasn't been a 100% horrible experience I'm also very aware that it's ruined a lot of lives and killed millions of people, that's why it's hard to make happy thoughts out of such a horrible event

And then there's of course a lot of people I know that are having blood clot issues directly related to the vaccines but we don't want to get into all that and I purposely have stayed away from starting an entire topic about it which I think is long overdue as it is health related

Back to the happy thoughts...walks, better food because of cooking at home, more in touch with my wife and son and immediate family now, more appreciation for what I already have
I'm a blessed man, always was but truly understood it better in recent years.
 
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One of my employees asking a married client if she was interested in a threesome with her and her boyfriend. :brush:

Also fielded a call from the same client with a forwarded employee complaint about one of our young attractive employees working on-site because she showed up in a sports bra and very short very tight shorts (my company is an engineering company so definitely not expected attire).

We were doing work that was way outside our typical work and really mind-numbing standing around work, but still.

The facilities guys of that client were really not happy with the person that made the complaint.
 
I got a full tank of gas for free when I used my store bonus points at the store gas station with the price at about $1.25/gallon. That was a score.
Empty store shelves and stick-on feet on the floor indicating 6' spacing at the registers.
The first day of shutdown I went to the mall parking lot with a co-worker at lunchtime and the lot was empty, it was eery and I expected tunbleweeds to come rolling though.
Had an Easter zoom with my family of 10 different zoom locations and discovered zoom sucks for intimate chat sessions. That was the only family session we did.
 
-OZ- said:
We were two weeks away from going on a Disney cruise when things shut down. Instead we got a puppy. 🤷‍♂️

The FBG stock thread blew up for a while.
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I was literally within 48 hours of stepping on a flight for my first ever solo trip going to Berlin and Prague for 10 days. I was all packed and ready to go and then everything got shut down. I've haven't re-booked that trip yet. :(
 
Working at the liquor store was amazing with how busy we were, store did the best they ever did by a large margin that year. People were loading up with $100+ orders on the regular and with work from home and A/B day schedules we were jumping from open to close. We had staff member at the door at all times to keep a max of 10 customers at a time in the store and made sure everyone was masked before entering. Of course we had some jokers that rebelled but we just told them to go to another store, we didn't want their business. Crazy times.
 
urbanhack said:
-OZ- said:
We were two weeks away from going on a Disney cruise when things shut down. Instead we got a puppy. 🤷‍♂️

The FBG stock thread blew up for a while.
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I was literally within 48 hours of stepping on a flight for my first ever solo trip going to Berlin and Prague for 10 days. I was all packed and ready to go and then everything got shut down. I've haven't re-booked that trip yet. :(
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Reminds me of 9/11. We were flying out the next day. Not to nearly as fun a place. Those two events define many of our lives. (Or made a huge impact, if “define” is too strict a word)
 
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Having to cancel my first trip to Spring Training. I typically cannot go because of my son's games/season but that right before his high school career started and he didn't have anything planned for that weekend. We were set to go on Friday and then on Thursday MLB cancelled the rest of spring training so we cancelled the trip. Then high school started and his season coincides (obviously) with Spring Training so haven't been able to go.
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I was at a Tigers' game in Lakeland when it was announced that the remainder of the spring training season was cancelled. March 12th, 2020. Surreal moment.
 
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Gally said:
Having to cancel my first trip to Spring Training. I typically cannot go because of my son's games/season but that right before his high school career started and he didn't have anything planned for that weekend. We were set to go on Friday and then on Thursday MLB cancelled the rest of spring training so we cancelled the trip. Then high school started and his season coincides (obviously) with Spring Training so haven't been able to go.
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I was at a Tigers' game in Lakeland when it was announced that the remainder of the spring training season was cancelled. March 12th, 2020. Surreal moment.
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I had a flight and Airbnb lined up for my first trip to Boston in April 2020 and was looking at tickets to attend my first ever NBA game when the season and our trip (wife's work conference) got canceled.
 
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I remember going to the store to buy something, anything, to eat and most of the shelves being empty. Went down the pasta aisle nothing, nothing, Oh Snap! a line of boxes at the end. I thought maybe they just stocked it, and I will be able to get some noodles at least. Get down there and it is Kale pasta. Another guy got there at almost the exact same moment, and we looked at the Kale pasta and looked at each other, then looked at the Kale pasta again. Again, almost simultaneously we looked at each other and just walked away. Pandemic or no pandemic, we both decided that Kale pasta was a bridge to far. I will just starve to death, thanks.
 
I was one of the very few at my company who went to the office throughout the pandemic. I was one of maybe 8 people in the building (about the size of two football fields) and crossed paths with about three others throughout the day. It was glorious.
 
My family was at a hotel about 2.5 hours north of where we live on a Spring Break trip. On the second to last day of our vacation we were getting breakfast in the hotel lobby and on the TV they announced that the NBA had suspended the season. That's when we knew **** was very real. Packed up and went home that day.
 
1. I remember the weekend when Covid became "real" - it was the weekend of The Players when things quickly started to get shut down. I was playing in my buddy's member guest about three hours from my home and I distinctly remember the two of us looking at each other and both expressing the helpless feeling of "what is happening... and what should we be doing?"
2. I have a generally pretty strong memory of the work from home days. It was weird trying to still work with four little kids giving my wife headaches just a few feet away.
3. Learning how to do trials by Zoom will always stay with me. I imagine I'll be telling attorneys in 20 years about the 'Covid days" and they'll be looking at me like I'm a crazy old man.
4. Learning chess.
 
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6. Recognizing that the phrase "avoid it like the plague" is inaccurate and needs to be retired from our lexicon.
 
Some things never did change back. A local diner had a counter area that seated about a dozen people, many who were avoiding sitting alone in a booth. You could strike up a conversation with a semi stranger that you only knew from there. Also your waitress was right there to refill your drink. During COVID they converted the entire area to takeout orders which was already big then with all the delivery services. They have no plans to change it back.
 
Softball coming to a screeching halt and then us trying to navigate practice and games. We started out with just hitting and only I could touch the balls.
 
I spent most of 2020 in the hospital for an unrelated issue, so in a lot of ways, I missed most of the common stuff like TP/grocery shortages etc. The one thing that stands out is how the hospital slowly turned into a ghost town. Every day or two they would wheel me down for a test or a scan, and at first the visitors were gone, then more and more hospital workers like orderlies started not showing up. By the time they sent me home (which I don't think they would have if not for covid), you could wheel around the whole hospital and not see anybody. Reminded me of the scene in 28 days later when the guy woke up in the hospital after the zombie apocalypse had started.
 
I was considered an "essential worker" because I sold potato chips.
Spent most of my days inside grocery stores. Where everybody went. Amazed at the line outside every morning, where people would rush in and buy all the toilet paper in the first five minutes.
Saw our plans to go to Italy squashed. Went to Mexico at soon as they opened back up and only saw one other couple on the beach the whole week.
Drove from South Carolina to Florida on I-95 and only passed about 10 cars. They stopped all traffic at the state line and made everyone north of SC do temperature check before entering Florida.
 
1. Not being able to eat in restaurants, would drive through fast food and eat at my desk at work. This, of course, after I wiped the desk down with Clorox wipes.

2. My dive bar was closed for a spell, but they would open up on weekend days for you to go in and buy some bottled or canned beers off them. It was good to see people (even though you had to stay 6' apart) even just for a few minutes.

3. Zoom Happy Hours

4. Whiskey exchanges -- this has catapulted my "home drinking" to new levels. I was never a "home drinker" until the pandemic. I mean, I'd maybe have a beer or two while getting ready to go out, but I'd never catch a buzz or anything while completely intending to stay home and not go anywhere.

5. Long lines to get into Target with markers on the ground indicating where you could stand

6. Kids' school completely online... what a cluster-f

... probably have more later.
 
BlackCrowes said:
how happy i was the day i got the liquor delivery
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Although I don't think they were supposed to, found a great place for this.

Also lots of quality time with the wife/cats. More desserts. One of our favorite local places did an awesome take out menu you could order wine with. Picking up a lobster pot pie, key lime pie, and box of wine.
 
My daughter getting cheated out of her Senior year of softball..

Also, we have a local hole in the wall bar/restaurant/bowling alley two blocks from where I work.. I placed a phone order for food, walked down there and the parking lot was busy.. Tried to open the door and it was locked.. called the number and a waitress I know opened the door for me and said, "oh, you can come in and wait for your food".. I walked in and it was empty.. The bowling alley is in the back, thru separate doors.. That's when I realized all the "regulars" were hanging out in the bowling alley, drinking, eating and not social distancing.. lol. Must have been what it was like back in prohibition.
 
i had a heart attack and was in the hospital for two days and could have all the visitors in the world the second two days the hospital locked down and the nurses talked to me through the glass observation window as much as possible and everyone had crazy masks on i remember thinking man i lived through the big one and now im going to die from covid but i didnt and then i was able to get the vaccine on the first day they were available on account of knowing the right people and then it was great i saw my kids more than ever because we were all free to do what we wanted and spent some of the best family time ever and i went fishing hiking biking and walking more than ever got healthier more than ever had no colds for like 1 and a half years read more books than ever and basically was happier than ever so while certain people complain about whatever using super tricky missing vowels i just thought covid was about the best year and a half of my life because i focused on what mattered take that to the bank brochachos
 
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i had a heart attack and was in the hospital for two days and could have all the visitors in the world the second two days the hospital locked down and the nurses talked to me through the glass observation window as much as possible and everyone had crazy masks on i remember thinking man i lived through the big one and now im going to die from covid but i didnt and then i was able to get the vaccine on the first day they were available on account of knowing the right people and then it was great i saw my kids more than ever because we were all free to do what we wanted and spent some of the best family time ever and i went fishing hiking biking and walking more than ever got healthier more than ever had no colds for like 1 and a half years read more books than ever and basically was happier than ever so while certain people complain about whatever using super tricky missing vowels i just thought covid was about the best year and a half of my life because i focused on what mattered take that to the bank brochachos
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I left the city, chilled at my brother's house for months, bought him a smoker, and we basically made elaborate meals every day. Between that and the pool, lockdown was a good time.
 
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i also remember that the best meme i saw during that time was your father and grandfather were asked to leave everything they knew and go to war you are being asked to sit on the couch you can do this take that to the bank bromigos
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Mmmm were the banks open though during Covid?
 
I will say that as an introverted, upper-middle-class empty-nester, the lockdown period was pretty fantastic. But I work around a ton of people with young kids, so I had the common sense to keep that opinion to myself. Their pandemic experience seemed to be radically different from mine.
 
My wife rode her bike to the beach, but they would not let her go there by herself because the beach was closed to locals. Anyone that happened to be staying in a hotel on the beach could go. WHAT ?
 
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