Any good that came out of COVID-19

[LiveBates]

Nice change for a thread...good idea I've found small talk with neighbors I've never seen to be nice. Lotsa walkers saying hello. For the past 3 weeks I've watched a family of foxes being raised directly across the street. It's been quite comical. Theres 9 kits toatl6, which I thought was crazy. One will run around with a squirrel tail and the other 8 will chase until it another ones turn. I have my morning coffee on the porch and watch them everyday, and at dusk. They put on quite the show.

[73hunter]

Lots of good stories here. Good on you GW for putting the kids first.

We have had many many evening walks with the kids around our subdivision and I was fortunate to be able to work from home for quite a few days in recent weeks. Lots of time with kids.

I have been doing the grocery shopping and going early on weekends lately unless we could order online and get a pickup slot. Shopping has been so much better with half the people in the store and with nobody being checked out RIGHT behind you, lots of time to pack your own groceries instead of having the next person’s stuff rammed into yours.

I have a long commute into the city daily and normally take the 407 but the 401 has been lightning fast and actually 10 minutes better.

[MarkB]

Well, some good ... I've done a crap load of mini-projects around my house ... for the first time in as long as I can remember ... I only have 3 things left on my list of things to do ... and one of them will be done tomorrow and another on Saturday.

The other nice thing is the cooking. Now that my wife is at home from work, she is cooking up some amazing meals ... looking on line for recipes like linguini carbonara ... really nice food!

[JBen]

Deborah and I met through meet up years ago. The group is for people 35+ divorced people. No, not a dating thing. It’s actually fairly uncommon. The group is about 1,000 people. Many of us know what “suddenly single mid life is like”. Circle of friends are smaller, often mutual friends fall by the wayside etc etc. and when you visit friends that are married, you can feel like a 5th wheel.

The group primarily exist for divorced parents, with busy lives, work children. To get out, expand social circles what not.

When it all began, we found ourselves almost daily expressing how lucky and grateful we were to have found each other. Many of our friends, are single, alone going through this. And with that groups social functions shut down.....

A couple weeks ago, us, and bunch of our friends starting putting online poker games together. At the same time combinations of zoom, FaceTime are set up. In many ways, it’s drawn people closer. And for those of us, that have remarried, our single friends aren’t going through it alone.

[gbk]

My wife is off for a while now-her workplace, the mall is closed shut......i am off and on working from home.So we spend unusual amount of time together.Which turns out to be a great thing........In our regular life we meet quarter of the time(she is working mostly when i am off work,or the other ways around).We got used to it by now,and it does no harm to us(and it is REALLY good in deer season for me).So we talk more,walk the streets a lot.The life in Guelph become less of a rush,and much quieter. Other then the line ups in certain stores,the life is simpler and easier.

[canadaman30]

Nothing much has really changed for myself, wife works from home and still going to work myself. Less traffic on the roads is nice. There are some outdoor stores with great deals on right now. I liking the price of fuel as well

[trimmer21]

I really like the on-line ordering/drive thru pick up. Home Depot has it down to a fine art. I'm told they're looking at doing this permanently. I ordered on-line yesterday and picked my order up today. It took about 15 minutes. Just as an aside, on the way,I took a short cut through an LCBO parking lot (same plaza) and got stuck in a back up of vehicles. There were no fewer than 70 people (I had time to count) standing 6' apart,outside in line to get in. It was pouring rain,like I mean pissin' furkin' buckets. Well,different strokes for different folks,I guess.

[410001661]

Good news - still have a job! My company let go 175 people globally but Canada was unaffected AND we nailed our quarterly bonus!! Not sure how that happened but I'll take it. I am assuming things are going to open up soon as I have meetings planned for Chicago and Houston for mid/late June. My wife is in Pharma and has never been busier and is also planning business trips to UK & Sweden for August and Sept.

Hopefully this will all be coming to an end soon.

[Bushwhacker]

I think an upside is Canadians are waking up to the corruption and double standards of the Liberals. Their attack on working/middle class Canadians and putting foreign interests before our own. Trudeau's days are numbered, so that is some solace amidst all of this. Now here's to hoping Trump gets back in this November

[fishermccann]

That post is stirring the pot, if I reply then I am deemed a troll. See how that works. Censorship until everyone thinks the same on this site.