I spent yesterday evening with my girlfriend. Her child was with her ex, and we spent the early part of the evening, oddly enough, giving her home a rigorous scrubbing And talking about the fact that Shelby county schools announced yesterday that they would be closed from today until the end of the month. After that was dinner, and after that came some physical activity I won’t detail.
Which is not the point of this post anyway. The point is that, waiting for my Lyft ride home, we were in her doorway until the car came with our arms around one another and kissed good night before leaving. The Lyft driver, being one of the chatty ones, observed that our osculation seemed to be in conflict with the current attitude about social distance. I didn’t engage her in conversation on the subject because it was none of her goddamn business, but it did make me wonder how dopers are changing PDAs in light of fears about the epidemic.
If I or my gf contract the virus, we’ll have exposed the other as a matter of routine. I don’t want to kiss someone with a purulent nasal discharge, but if we are symptom free, why not?
We do the fist bump instead of shaking hands at church during the passing of the peace, but that is pretty common during flu season anyway.
There hasn’t been any change in the number of times I am closer than an arm’s length from the Lovely and Talented Mrs. Shodan, nor do I anticipate that there will be. I’ve always said she’s got blue eyes to die for, and that is very nearly literally true. If she’s willing to risk it, who am I to say No?
I don’t have anyone with whom to share PDAs at the moment, so I expect no changes in the near term.
There is someone I wanted to ask out to a concert tonight, but that won’t be happening. Thought I’d been shot down for every reason possible, but “global pandemic” is a new one.
That is my thought as well. We had already spent enough time together this week that it was virtually certain that if either of us had the virus, we both did. neither of us is showing any real symptoms apart from her coughing when she inhaled some smoke wrong, so the goodbye kiss seemed perfectly fine to me.
A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a handheld PC, is a variety mobile device which functions as a personal information manager. PDAs have been mostly displaced by the widespread adoption of highly capable smartphones, in particular those based on iOS and Android.
I am not changing anything with my husband and son. I am staying away from my parents (early 70s). I think I will see them briefly on Saturday but I won’t get close, and after that, I will probably stay away until the whole thing is over. I work in a school, my son attends a different school. My chances of already having this thing are not negligible.
Went to get something from the shared cellar and met my neighbor, who is over 70. I did not shake hands as I might otherwise and I did not get closer to him than 1.5 m (approximately).
My mother-in-law got upset with my husband and I that we were sharing a fork, because we might share germs. We were already married at that point. She is not a Lyft driver.
So that people will know you have a girlfriend, of course. What’s the point of having a girlfriend if you don’t spend all your time making sure everyone knows about it.