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

[Eephus]

I remember running out of flour while the supply chain was still struggling. The owners of our neighborhood corner store were somehow able to snag 10 lb bags of corn flour so we ate a lot of corn bread, corn cookies and corn cakes for a while.

 

[nirad3]

After being closed for so long those pick-up games never really came back. We all played hoops together all the time but it wasn't like we exchanged phone numbers, there was just a thrice a week time set where we generally played. After covid most people didn't come back to the gym and there was never enough to play a game again, it just kind of faded away. I still remember walking out of the gym that day as Gobert spit on the mic, not knowing that was basically the last time I was ever going to see those guys and really, probably the last time I was ever going to play full court basketball.

Depending on how old you are, your achilles is probably thanking you.......

As someone who ruptured theirs (playing basketball), I can confirm this.

 

[Gally]

After being closed for so long those pick-up games never really came back. We all played hoops together all the time but it wasn't like we exchanged phone numbers, there was just a thrice a week time set where we generally played. After covid most people didn't come back to the gym and there was never enough to play a game again, it just kind of faded away. I still remember walking out of the gym that day as Gobert spit on the mic, not knowing that was basically the last time I was ever going to see those guys and really, probably the last time I was ever going to play full court basketball.

Depending on how old you are, your achilles is probably thanking you.......

As someone who ruptured theirs (playing basketball), I can confirm this.

Yep....worst injury I have ever had.

 

[BobbyLayne]

Riding public transportation on Saturday mornings to my volunteer gig at an East Village food pantry. Often I was the only one in the subway car or on the bus. Afterwards I’d get take out and ride CitiBike through the empty streets of New York. ‘twas like living in a dystopian movie.

 

[Desert_Power]

Owner of a local pizza joint yelling at me to take my mask off or get the hell out. For whatever reason he bought in to the Covid is a myth thing from the beginning and was very vocal about people not wearing masks in his place. He would throw kids out supposedly if they wore masks. About a month later owner of said pizza joint was dead from Covid.

Oof

 

[Todem]

Teaching my then 15 year old son how to drive in the completely empty mall parking lot. I took him almost everyday for an hour for months.

 

[Alex P Keaton]

With running races shut down, our 10K Thread organized a sequence of races. Over three months, we had a 10K, a 5K, and a one mile race. We ended up with two teams of 12, which included the wife of one of the guys as well as one of the group working over in Paris. Two of our top runners picked their teams. In each of the months, we designated a long weekend’ish time block for each runner to complete the run and post the time (via Strava).

It ended up being very competitive, and it was epic. Runners from both teams were posting incredibly fast times (aided by having the option of finding a downhill route). I think the only event in the thread that was more electric was when everyone followed @SFBayDuck ’s successful attempt to complete the Western States 100 mile ultra in the Sierra Nevada mountains several years back.

This is one of my family’s memories also, because I made them be on constant lookout for 1-mile downhill stretches in Wisconsin. Mrs APK will still at times point out a potential spot “for that weird virtual race you did with tri-man.”

Other memories:
- movie nights multiple times per week with kids
- the joy of hugging my parents at Christmas 2020 after we all ultra-quarantined for 4+ weeks to be extra super safe for my mom’s health (hadn’t seen them indoors since Feb 2020 at that point)
- road trips to Mt Rushmore, Anna Maria Island and Hilton Head with kids
- zoom calls with my former boss who was day drinking the whole pandemic and often appeared drunk on zoom
- driving into downtown Chicago in June 2020 to pack up the stuff in my office. I didn’t quit my job until August 2021. When my wife asked “why are you packing up?” I told her “I’m never going back there again.” Downtown Chicago was like a ghost town.
- driving ~3 hours to Springfield IL to get vaccinated 5-7 days earlier than if we waited to get the jab near Chicago. Zero regret to this day. One of the most grateful moments I’ve had.
- getting my hair cut in an alley in suburban Chicago in Oct/Nov 2020, first haircut since Feb 2020.
- walking 9-10 miles a day because I just couldn’t stand being stuck inside any longer.

 

[DA RAIDERS]

funny memories. We were skiing in Jackson hole as it was ravaging Europe. My wife was already ahead of the game and had us stocked up at home. She’s the prepper /worrier of us.

On the flight home we were smack dab in the middle of the LA Kings jrs, minor league team? 95% Europeans. It really made my wife nervous . I just drank with them.

 

[Terminalxylem]

Driving through Honolulu after curfew was really amazing, as the normally congested roads were completely empty. I wish I had taken the opportunity to bike through Waikiki, as I’ll never get another chance to be there without throngs of tourists.

But the biggest memories were of horribly sick, terrified patients, suffocating alone in their isolation rooms. Plus the tents erected on hospital grounds, and high number of covered gurneys in the loading dock area, waiting to be transported to the morgue.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Most of my memories from this time are bad. But here's a good one.

Someone from our small town started up a Facebook page called "Booze Up [Name of Town]". The idea was that someone would buy booze for someone else and drop it off at their door. Than the recipient would buy booze for a different person, and so on. You would post on the page if you wanted to participate but hadn't yet. It was "Pay It Forward" with alcohol and it was a good vibe. It went on for almost a year.

 

[General Malaise]

Good friend of mine from childhood is a musician and was - at the time - part of Don Henley's touring band along and I think was also with Max Weinberg when he was touring. Well, Covid shut all that down and my buddy was out of work.

As a side hustle, he set up his garage studio and would perform on Facebook live taking our requests. You could send him some $$$ via Venmo/Paypal and he'd play for 2-3 hours on Thursday nights. I think he did 100 or so of these shows and it was awesome. I was able to connect with so many of my old friends, made some new friends, and would get really excited when he'd pick one of my song requests. Guy is super talented and would lay the drum track down, fiddle with the bass, guitars etc and after 5-10 minutes of setting everything up, would play the song. It was really neat watching him work live and try to figure out what song he was about to play and sing.

I will never forget - the first song of mine he picked to play was "Graceland" by Paul Simon. Was so happy when he started playing it live I was yelling at everybody in my house to gather around my phone.

Happiest of endings for this guy - he's now a member of Mike Campbell's "Dirty Knobs" and might - MIGHT - be taking over guitar duties for a fairly famous band when they take residency in Vegas at some new venue that looks like a ball.

 

[Dickies]

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 remember this fondly. It was on St Patricks Day. Our local brewery went to curbside pickup and were selling crowlers of green IPA. I got a few of them for my neighbors, dropped 2 off to a neighbor 4 doors down who were moving into their house that day, then we set up my neighbor's massive TV at the front of his garage and a group of my neighbors watched it from the driveway and drank all the beer.

 

[jamny]

Another weird moment was a week or two after NY shut down. I had to drive my wife into the city so she could pick up the company's mail and get some files. Around 7th Ave and 37th. I waited outside while she masked up and put gloves on to go in. As I sat there in my car, I noticed that most of few people around were the denizens of the city, the homeless, haggard and normally unseen people, just wandering around like zombies. It was really bizarre. On a normal day, they would be there, but the mass of people would hide them.

 

[Osaurus]

Right before COVID hit (March 7, 2020) in a big way in the US, I was scheduled to go to Atlanta to see a show (Wire for those who are interested). I flew up from Tampa to Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. It was an absolute ghost town. I loved it tbh. Stayed at hotel near the airport and then took an Uber to the show. Great show, but maybe 75% full which is a travesty for such a great band all things considered. Managed to get an Uber back to the hotel and my driver was telling me about how she was losing business at a debilitating rate. We talked some about airport fares as that was her bread and butter. She told me that drivers were ignoring any and all ride requests from the international terminal. Crazy. Managed to come home on a half full plane and didn’t see another live concert until 2022.

 

[FiredMartz]

Good friend of mine from childhood is a musician and was - at the time - part of Don Henley's touring band along and I think was also with Max Weinberg when he was touring. Well, Covid shut all that down and my buddy was out of work.

As a side hustle, he set up his garage studio and would perform on Facebook live taking our requests. You could send him some $$$ via Venmo/Paypal and he'd play for 2-3 hours on Thursday nights. I think he did 100 or so of these shows and it was awesome. I was able to connect with so many of my old friends, made some new friends, and would get really excited when he'd pick one of my song requests. Guy is super talented and would lay the drum track down, fiddle with the bass, guitars etc and after 5-10 minutes of setting everything up, would play the song. It was really neat watching him work live and try to figure out what song he was about to play and sing.

I will never forget - the first song of mine he picked to play was "Graceland" by Paul Simon. Was so happy when he started playing it live I was yelling at everybody in my house to gather around my phone.

Happiest of endings for this guy - he's now a member of Mike Campbell's "Dirty Knobs" and might - MIGHT - be taking over guitar duties for a fairly famous band when they take residency in Vegas at some new venue that looks like a ball.

Will he fly like an Eagle?.....or end up Dead?

 

[brun]

One day the GM comes by cubicle and says, "brun, got a minute?" I've been through a few layoffs, so I know what's coming. We go to a conference room with a bunch of other people in it. I think, well at least I'm not the only one.

No layoff. Company was trying to encourage vaccinations by have a raffle at each site for those vaccinated. I won $1000.

 

[James Bond]

I clearly remember standing in line at a liquor store near my work on the day before everything shut down buying the largest bottle of Scotch I could find. Best decision I ever made.

Also, my wife found the Great British Baking Show on Netflix and we regularly watched it (every season they had) and started baking things from the show. That's how I got my Covid 15. I did eventually lose it though.

 

[Drunken knight]

We took a ski trip with another family just as lockdown was starting. I recall the debate on whether or not to do it and how would the restrictions by in another county. We did it, but all of the resorts shut down. Still had a wonderful trip with all of us isolating together.

 

[BassNBrew]

1. The biggest wealth building opportunity in our lifetime. Thanks to the insight on this board it became quite obviously to exit the market when this broke out in China.

2. The donkeys and elephants tripping over themselves to one up each other how high they could push inflation and driving housing prices to the point the next generation can't afford to buy and can't afford to mortgage.

3. Phifzer being a stock that you wanted to own for the first time this century. Buying and selling Bloomin' Brands every few days for a 20% gain.

 

[FairWarning]

Working every day for the first year. We never knew when product was coming in, it was gone right away. Many people gamed the system by saying they didn’t feel right, then took off for two weeks. The little guy was screwed as they had to close or dramatically change their business.

 

[IrishTwinkie]

Trying to convince my two college aged kids that stuff was going to be shutting down. Neither really believed me when I tried to explain what was clearly coming. I finally got through to my daughter, who was much farther away. She managed to get a self self-storage locker and reduced her footprint before her college closed the doors. Somewhat begrudgingly. But when the inevitable happened, she was able to fit the rest of her stuff into car. It was a long 2 days as she drove herself home, trying to avoid people when she stopped for gas and food, worrying about her hotel stay between driving all day.

My son didn't listen at all. He was home for spring break when they closed his college. I strongly suggested that he didn't want the school to be packing his room for him... I told him I wouldn't care what I might find in the room but the college might. We took a hell ride. Packed up his stuff, basically just sliding stuff off shelves into boxes and shoving it into the car. Drove home straight after. About a 16-17 hour day. Totally sucked. I've never seen that campus that empty. Very depressing.

Then we all had to adjust with them being back home. After having a taste of freedom it was adjustment time for everyone.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Great idea for a thread. Well done @Frostillicus

I have lots of memories. From a business side, one was if our entire business revenue would go to zero. After they canceled the NBA games, it was a real question. Fortunately, we had enough time from March until the season start to figure things out. And the league did an incredible job of navigating a difficult path.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Great idea for a thread. Well done @Frostillicus

I have lots of memories. From a business side, one was if our entire business revenue would go to zero. After they canceled the NBA games, it was a real question. Fortunately, we had enough time from March until the season start to figure things out. And the league did an incredible job of navigating a difficult path.

I remember it was legitimately uncertain if there was going to be an NFL season. It must have been extremely stressful for those who make their money off the league.

My three money fantasy leagues all dealt with this differently. One played, with the draft being conducted over Zoom. One took the year off and returned in 2021. The third shut down for good. The commish had been looking to bail for a while and used the pandemic as an excuse to finally do it.

 

[Joe Bryant]

Great idea for a thread. Well done @Frostillicus

I have lots of memories. From a business side, one was if our entire business revenue would go to zero. After they canceled the NBA games, it was a real question. Fortunately, we had enough time from March until the season start to figure things out. And the league did an incredible job of navigating a difficult path.

I remember it was legitimately uncertain if there was going to be an NFL season. It must have been extremely stressful for those who make their money off the league.

My three money fantasy leagues all dealt with this differently. One played, with the draft being conducted over Zoom. One took the year off and returned in 2021. The third shut down for good. The commish had been looking to bail for a while and used the pandemic as an excuse to finally do it.

Yes. Those were the kinds of conversations we were having. And just to add to the excitement, I'd purchased David Dodd's share of Footballguys In February of 2020. So there was that.

And to David's credit, he couldn't have been more helpful with the 2020 season and transition. But in March of 2020, I was wondering how this all might go.

 

[Joe Bryant]

The day I realized I think we'd make it for an NFL season was the first episode of Hard Knocks from the Rams and Chargers.

Seeing what the league did for camp made you realize exactly what it was: A super smart company with seemingly limitless money to spend to solve the problems. When you saw them creating open air weight room facilities by throwing a zillion dollars at things, you could see how it might work. I remember thinking, Appalachian State may not be able to do this, but the Rams will.

And it played out just that way.

 

[Judge Smails]

What seemed like a bottle of wine a night

 

[Parrothead]

What seemed like a bottle of wine a night

that and the 4PM WFH workday beer (3 on Fridays)

 

[Fat Nick]

After being closed for so long those pick-up games never really came back. We all played hoops together all the time but it wasn't like we exchanged phone numbers, there was just a thrice a week time set where we generally played. After covid most people didn't come back to the gym and there was never enough to play a game again, it just kind of faded away. I still remember walking out of the gym that day as Gobert spit on the mic, not knowing that was basically the last time I was ever going to see those guys and really, probably the last time I was ever going to play full court basketball.

Depending on how old you are, your achilles is probably thanking you.......

As someone who ruptured theirs (playing basketball), I can confirm this.

The irony that this comes up in this thread...We had a work volleyball league, and the night before our offices shut down my buddy tore his Achilles at our game. The last time I saw him I was helping him into our CFO's car to go to the hospital. He told me when he arrived, he was pleading with our CFO to just drop him off and go home because he was afraid of him getting sick.

The company that hosted all the work leagues folded during COVID. I got several e-mails from them in late 2020 asking if we wanted to get it going again, but at that point, we still weren't mandating a return to the office, and coordinating teams would've been a nightmare. It really sucks because, like the above, that was the last time I played volleyball. Used to be one of the highlights of work for me.

 

[Fat Nick]

I remember being stretched so thin I thought I was going to break. That's what I remember. My wife and I both had very busy corporate jobs, and we also had a 2-year old and a son in kindergarten when COVID hit. No family within 4 hours. Having a kid who can't navigate a computer for virtual learning was the worst. You basically had to be on with him for school. Top it off with having to not only keep the younger one busy and out of her brother's hair, and it was a full-time job.

We basically would look at schedules and decide who had the AM and who had the PM to work. The other one had kid duty...then after the kids went to bed at ~7:00, we were both back on our computers working. Looking back I have no clue how we survived. It was the worst.

 

[DocHolliday]

My biggest memories were probably the scariness of the virus (especially at the beginning) and the new struggles at home. My daughters middle school went to remote learning but the school system had no plan in place. Some teachers tried. Some teachers mailed it in and the teaching fell on the parents since the zoom call teaching was mostly ineffective even when teachers tried.

I had already been working from home for a couple of years for a company vital to the health care industry and was extremely busy trying to solve what seemed like endless challenges. My wife had to work from home and most of my daughters education fell on her. My wife was actually teaching my daughter and a handful of her friends for a couple of hours most days. I remember teaching math to my daughter many evenings and gaining a whole new appreciation for school teachers. Eventually, I became frustrated and blasted the school superintendent on social media for his complete lack of preparation and leadership. I thought I might lose my coaching job at the school but even the school board was on my side at the end.

I still feel sorry for all the students that missed sports, dances, and just the fun of being together with their friends at all school stuff.

 

[Mitchie]

Went out with co-workers as the pandemic was just starting, of course noone at that time knew the scale of things, think my company sent people home and said we'll notify you on next steps. Co-workers were like well I guess I'll see you in a week or two, I was like sorta half joking I'll see you in a year.

 

[Wildcat]

Gaining 20 pounds and never losing it,

 

[SFBayDuck]

My biggest memories were probably the scariness of the virus (especially at the beginning) and the new struggles at home. My daughters middle school went to remote learning but the school system had no plan in place. Some teachers tried. Some teachers mailed it in and the teaching fell on the parents since the zoom call teaching was mostly ineffective even when teachers tried.

I had already been working from home for a couple of years for a company vital to the health care industry and was extremely busy trying to solve what seemed like endless challenges. My wife had to work from home and most of my daughters education fell on her. My wife was actually teaching my daughter and a handful of her friends for a couple of hours most days. I remember teaching math to my daughter many evenings and gaining a whole new appreciation for school teachers. Eventually, I became frustrated and blasted the school superintendent on social media for his complete lack of preparation and leadership. I thought I might lose my coaching job at the school but even the school board was on my side at the end.

I still feel sorry for all the students that missed sports, dances, and just the fun of being together with their friends at all school stuff.

In middle school my daughter and her mother decided they wanted to send her to private school. We lived in an area with good public schools so I was pretty resistant, but I finally gave in when my daughter talked me through all of the reasons she thought it would be the best place for her.

Flash forward two years to covid, and they were totally on it. After a hectic first couple of weeks getting the tech setup it was Zoom classes with attendance taken and cameras on. Parents got calls for missed class, just like they would have when they were going to school. Sure they had to modify a few things like allow open book tests (since no great way to police that), but they really did everything they could to keep the educational experience as on track as possible. Meanwhile, her step-brother in a local public school was getting emailed a couple of worksheets a week, limited/no live teaching, just letting the kids pretty much figure it out.

That said, I knew at the time we were "blessed" (strange word to use for those days) that she was in high school, not a youngster like many here are recalling and had to deal with while juggling their own jobs.

 

[Gally]

My son was in 8th grade at the time everything shutdown. The school decided that since the remote learning thing was new to everyone and they didn't know how it would affect people or work out they made an announcement that all grades were locked in at the current grade and that they couldn't go down. All students had the ability to improve that grade if they did well but that nothing would go down.

The smart kid my son was said, well I have all A's right now so I can stop doing any work because I am good as I am. I couldn't argue with the logic. He didn't do that because he can't allow himself to get a bad grade (he just graduated HS this year and never had anything less than an A.....ever).

I just thought it was so dumb for the school to announce that policy to everyone. If they wanted that policy to make sure that people didn't get hurt by the unknown that is fine but I am sure there were quite a few kids that stopped doing work because they were fine with their current grade. All that did was create them to be behind for the last 8-10 weeks of school.

 

[Anarchy99]

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.

Anyone with kids that played sports got the shaft. Our son was a senior in HS and the end of the state basketball tournament got cancelled. They had already killed the team they were due to play. The league figured out a way to play the game (no spectators), but the opponent refused to play . . . yet THEY were declared champions (had a higher seed).

On the positive side, my wife and I ended up hosting family game night every week with all our kids and significant others. It would never have happened otherwise (some of them live nowhere near us now). Nothing like the spirit of competition and alcohol to spark some really hilarious memories and discussions.

 

[Sand]

I remember this fondly. It was on St Patricks Day.

Speaking of St. Patrick's day - my kid (sophomore in high school) was set for a trip to play in the NYC parade. A week out they canceled it. Travel insurance refused to pay out because "threat of a pandemic" wasn't a covered reason. A few k down a drain there and he was really disappointed. He got to go his senior year, which was really cool for him.

Work went insane. Our place took ~3 weeks off. It took us a year to dig out from the hole. I have never worked harder - 70+ hrs/week from home for a long time. Hated work from home. It was a prison.

At the same time our governor closed beaches, which means our rental was shut down. Started losing lots of income there. Luckily once the beaches were reopened our place filled right back up. Then Sally came through and trashed my place in fall 2020. Went to 90-100 hrs/week by adding on 24 hours every weekend trying to put it back together. 80k of damage we had to mostly fix ourselves (except roofing and floors) because there was no labor available.

I'm glad it's not 2020 again.

 

[Pipes]

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.

Same for my son and Lacrosse. Class of 2020 got completely hosed.

 

[Zow]

I still feel sorry for all the students that missed sports, dances, and just the fun of being together with their friends at all school stuff.

Good call here. I remember talking with a couple of our babysitters at this time about their college experience and was saddened to hear that, for them, they basically attended classes on line in their dorm and had no real social life.

Since I attribute a lot of who I am to going away for college, living on campus, and embracing the opportunity to socialize in an academic setting and really explore philosophical issues which shape my current ways of thinking, I feel terrible for college/grad students who missed out on such a similar opportunity.

 

[Gawain]

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 ?

Golf courses and parks being closed was crazy to me. I was actually looking forward to the break. I knew I could play as much golf as I wanted because it was outside. Then, they closed the courses! Huh?! Ok, great. Free golf! I thought with the courses being closed I'd be able to just show up and walk the thing. Play as much golf as I wanted during the closures. But, nooooooooo. They had golf course staff there making sure nobody actually went out on the course! I'm outside and not around anyone?! So stupid.

Oh, wow, that's dumb. I think my club barely closed. They instilled a lot of the now seemingly silly rules about not touching flags or bunker rakes and the like, and most tournaments were canceled, but I played a lot of golf during Covid.

Claiming a putt that lipped out was “noodled” and taking the par. I still do that.

 

[Zow]

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 ?

Golf courses and parks being closed was crazy to me. I was actually looking forward to the break. I knew I could play as much golf as I wanted because it was outside. Then, they closed the courses! Huh?! Ok, great. Free golf! I thought with the courses being closed I'd be able to just show up and walk the thing. Play as much golf as I wanted during the closures. But, nooooooooo. They had golf course staff there making sure nobody actually went out on the course! I'm outside and not around anyone?! So stupid.

Oh, wow, that's dumb. I think my club barely closed. They instilled a lot of the now seemingly silly rules about not touching flags or bunker rakes and the like, and most tournaments were canceled, but I played a lot of golf during Covid.

Claiming a putt that lipped out was “noodled” and taking the par. I still do that.

I'll always remember our first competitive tournament with the Covid rules in place (including that stupid noodle). Our pro, who probably made the correct objective decision to eliminate any subjective argument, declared that the ball must be holed and it is not considered holed if it bounces out. Of course, on day one of the tournament, I had the ball bounce off the foam and out of the cup twice - with the second time being after I was already just trying to make a double bogey having hit one ob off the tee. Naturally, my anger boiled over and I missed the bunny comebacker for an 8 - effectively sealing my fate on day one of a three day tournament that I was all excited for because would could probably play. Good times!

 

[Mr. Mojo]

I flew back from a Caribbean Scuba trip on February 29.
Almost everything closed about a week later.
All I could think of was (whew, lucky!)

 

[FiredMartz]

My friend and I were out to a bikini bar right at shutdown time.....he went to the bathroom and I paid the bartender $ 40 to motorboat him when he came back to the bar......guess who was one of the first with Covid?

 

[metoo]

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.

This. Driving down Howell Mill in Atlanta and nothing. It felt like you were in one of those weird movies and you were the only survivor.