# The Pandemic Blues support group thread **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pandemic-blues-support-group-thread/925729 **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share **Created:** [November 16, 2020, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pandemic-blues-support-group-thread/925729 "2020-11-16T19:04:19Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 23
### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy) #### Post date: [November 17, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pandemic-blues-support-group-thread/925729/23 "2020-11-17T22:14:36Z")
Gaah that sound irritating! Few things are more vexing than being foiled in the pursuit of a guilty treat. You give in to the temptation, feeling a bit sheepish having done so and then the plan falls apart leaving you worse than empty-handed. Twice. The last time I stared forlornly into a sink drain wondering how life could be so cruel was after I’d made a large pot of poultry stock. I’d set up my strainer and had just poured the pot contents through it. And there I stood with a strainer full of simmered-to-nothing vegetables, cartilage, skin, & bones and my drain plumbing full of disappeared stock. I’d somehow forgotten the catch pot and had absentmindedly saved the solids, not the liquid! 😲 😳 At least you avoided a multi-day exchange of increasingly arch notes with the innkeeper about the supply of soap in your room! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pandemic-blues-support-group-thread/925729)._