Shutdown - What do you miss the most?
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I miss the gym, and the other gym I go to for Kettle bell workouts. My kettle bell place is great but its a small gym and they do different workouts at different times, its really the only exercise I prefer to do in a group. I doubt it will survive if this last much longer, and unfortunately even if it opened back up tomorrow, i don't think I would want to be in a group of people barefoot and sweating for a while longer. I will keep paying my membership even though they offered to suspend them during this, hopefully the couple hundred bucks at least helps the owner keep some food on the table for their family.
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I used to play basketball up to 3 times a week, doubt that will happen again until the fall.
I missed out on attending March Madness, a tradition I have done for the past 12 years every year.
Just going out for a nice dinner. I was never much of a cook other than the basics and mrs shailynn and I have really tried to step up our meal preps, we have joked that we have a new appreciation for restaurant workers at fancy restaurants.
Lastly, I just need a day off. While everyone is stuck at home I’m out working everyday, my job is now more intense than ever and every night I come home and drop dead from exhaustion. I am working 6 days a week. I am getting a few tasks done on the weekend because I can’t go anywhere other than work, but not nearly as much as I expected to get done when this all started.
Today I’m going to go out and try to hook up with a local girl. I don’t have her phone number but luckily for me she is working in a grocery store. You have to take whatever wins you can whenever and where ever you can find them…
Being able to have an excuse to get away from the SO
In general
https://youtu.be/BcZ-DaRkj5g
What I mean is I miss looking forward to the weekend and weekend events, sports and getting together with friends. I miss my monthly card games. I miss looking forward to happy hours and going out to clubs and bars. I miss looking forward to my vacations which are now seriously in doubt. My annual trip to Vegas is also in jeopardy even though it’s 5 months away. The fact that some states are planning to open has presented a bit of light and I’m clinging to that as restoring hope that my travel and social interactions will actually happen.
For the people who are working around the clock to try and get us all there, thank you.
fucking all these girls is getting boring"
STOP IT SWEETIE! YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRY AND HIDE IT ANY MORE!
Here os a video of the forst time my babe desertscrub came out of the closet
https://youtu.be/BCeGlrUjFGc
8. Going out to dinner. We don’t do this a lot, but we are way overdue.
7. Memory – of the club visit(s) that would have happened by now.
6. Normal girl watching - without masks - while out and about.
5. Local family. 1 brother, and 1 sister live in same town. Used to have them over for dinner every few weeks.
4. Anticipation – of next club visit. Now a big unknown.
3. Camping. We were going retire on the 1st day of spring, hitch up the trailer and go to the coast for a few.
2. Contra dancing – swinging the lasses around to wonderful music.
1. Granddaughter. 20 months old. Just a hundred miles away in Portland. Near, but so far.
And has been mentioned before: TITTIES
I don't have the same gusto I once had for SCing, but still nice if I could hit a club once in a while - in the past I enjoyed taking a short (1 to 3 days) out-of-area SC trip for a change of scenery (getting away from the same-ole same-ole).
Miss hanging out in South Beach - South Beach area has a more laidback/relaxed vibe compared to the city (Miami) not to mention the eye-candy (babes in bikinis not only on the sand/water but walking up-and-down Ocean Drive.)
I miss the ability to meet up with friends at a bar or brewery or even a get together at someone's house. Seemed like a pretty normal thing before but compared to now it would feel like a trip to Vegas to be able to do any of that.
I miss bowling, didn't realize how addicted I was to it until it was taken away.
I miss not wearing a mask everywhere. Shits uncomfortable and even puts a damper on checking out eye candy in the grocery stores because even the hot chicks are wearing them. I can judge their bodies just fine but can't really see their faces because 60% of it is covered by a mask.
I miss going out to eat. Take out is nowhere near the same as sitting in and enjoying a meal at a nice restaurant.
I miss sports. The NBA playoffs are my second favorite sporting event post season behind the NFL. We'd usually be right in the thick of the post season now. Even the NFL draft wasn't quite the same with no inevitable booing of Roger Goddell as he announced each pick.
I used to religiously listen to sports radio on the way into work. Now, however, with no sports they struggle to find stuff to talk about. It usually ends up being about old events, or hypothetical questions like the 95 Bulls vs the 2017 Warriors. Shit gets boring fast.
Man I'll be relieved when this nightmare is over. Even if it takes an entire year, I'll take that over living like this for the rest of my life.
My international trip planned for the fall with my buddies is off for this year now, but hopefully by winter we can make it happen, money will probably go even further then so maybe it will work out.
I was missing hair cuts, but Mrs. Dugan just took the job on herself and did a surprisingly good job.
Restaurants are also a big loss. Not because the food is better than what I can get at home - Mrs. Dugan is a fantastic cook and makes all of my favorite comfort foods. But it's fun to take the family out to dinner and a movie and leave the mess for someone else to deal with.
That's my short list.
So today we went to lunch at a favorite restaurant that is doing curb-side pick-up. It is located in a strip mall and when I pulled into the parking lot it was completely empty except for a few employee cars in the far corner. It was a beautiful day so we opted to sit on the grass in the lot’s medium for a picnic style lunch. It felt great to be out in the fresh air and sunshine and in short order two other couples that we didn’t know followed our lead and joined us (of course observing the prescribed six foot spacing dictated by our fascist overlords). Very enjoyable conversations.
Afterward we talked about going back tomorrow for a better planned American tradition – tail gating with a cooler full of beer. So far we’ve invited fourteen additional people and all have expressed interest in joining us. Simple pleasures, I know, but the idea of helping a struggling restaurant and being a scoff law at the same time are a welcome change to staring at the walls.
For those of you who are missing dining at a restaurant, you might want to consider tail gating in the restaurant’s parking lot. Be sure there is a tree available to piss behind.