Recently Seen During A Pandemic

 

*disclaimer: this post is a purely humorous look at a sober situation during a rather serious time of history. This is not political. This is not meant to offend. This should make you smile. The end.*

 

 

This eerie, hazy, chaotic twilight zone we are living in has become almost normal. But this is not normal. 

I think we all know that, but what is not so easily spotted is the humor in all of this. Because there’s quite a bit of material here. 

My husband and I have spotted some rather unconventional behavior. Without further ado, here are some examples.

 

We were in an opulent community the other day enjoying some ice cream, when a couple began their important decision-making process to find their OTP ice cream. (Is that a thing? Okay it is now.) Masks intact, the woman suddenly remembered to ask a very important question: “may I take my mask off to try the ice cream?” No honey, suck that icecream right through the mask.

 

Clearly being trapped indoors is not conducive to retaining street smarts. On a one way street, parked THE WRONG WAY, a man sat, staring. Maybe he just needed to get out of the house to sit in an undisturbed place. Right on, buddy. We’ll just go around you then.

 

Seen in the grocery store, indicative of all of us who have fulfilled the get-out-the-door checklist: wallet, keys, phone, water bottle – but forgotten the mask, our ticket to go inside any building not our home-

a young girl, with a paper towel half smashed against her face, dragging her feet through the store. She was extremely vigilant in holding that piece of permeable paper against her mouth. I feel you girl. I feel you. (also applause for the first sentence of this paragraph which was a hippopotamus in size. Clearly my writing skills have not improved just because of a pandemic lockdown.)

 

And last, but certainly not least, the one that makes me question human common sense. From our vantage point at a small table, my husband spotted a man take off his mask TO COUGH INTO HIS HAND, replace the mask ….

 

and … open the door with the coughed-in hand.

 

Okay buddy, can I borrow your mask then? Because I think I forgot mine …

-Sara