We have a group of eight families in my neighborhood that is pretty much joined at the hip. Our kids call each other cousins, we normally get together about once a week, we go on vacations together, etc. My last social event was a gathering of about four of those families at one of their houses. We had about 15 people all together, including kids, on March 14th. We were aware of the coming shut downs and we were all careful to wash our hands when we came in and we even tried to stay distanced from each other while we were just sitting around (not they kids - they were in their normal huddle). I haven’t seen any of them in person since. We have done a weekly zoom cocktail hour. That actually hasn’t worked out too badly, since we can all seem to muster sitting at our kitchen tables for a couple hours in our pajamas once a week. It’ll be nice to get back to our normal get togethers, though, when we’ve made it through this.
Me too (not the same gathering). My game group met once a week and had a monthly game day. Our last game day was the 14th. Technically groups of less than 10 could still meet the next game night, but our host location cancelled thier other events (even small ones) and wanted to be consistent.
Brian
March 7th we held our last show (pro wrestling) in Stroudsburg PA. They had 1 case there already and we all felt this was probably the last for awhile. Things got weird the very next week.
I was at work, as usual, on March 12.
That probably isn’t what you meant, but:
Organized gathering? Check.
More than 10 people? Check.
Don’t ordinarily reside together or live near each other? Check.
Assuming that doesn’t qualify, I was at a Chinese new year party at a friend’s home, I guess that would have been January 25. There were probably more than 10 people there, but I can’t say for sure. But fuck that, it was a social function either way, the number is bullshit.
Dinner and a movie on Saturday, March 14. The restaurant was slightly less busy than one would expect. Monday the 16th was my last day at the office; the Bay Area went into total shutdown that day. Since then I’ve been indoors - not counting grocery runs - with 1 or 2 other people (plus my wife) on a half-dozen occasions.
Halloween party. Might have been the one the year before last, though. Lock down is a kind of theoretical thing, for me.
April 23rd. My 2 yr-old great nephew’s funeral.
StG
Last as in most recent or last ever?
Early March retirement party with several people yucking it up about the stupidity of distancing and grabbing other people and hugging them. I left as soon as it wasn’t rude to do so; it was early in COVID and there weren’t yet orders from the governor.
Office party/potluck at my boss’s house, mid-January.
Taiwan has done well, so there have only been a few things curtailed. I am on a Dragon boat team, and for practice we’ll have anywhere between 8 to 20 people on a canoe together.
March 13: our office has a regular Friday morning coffee. That was the last time.
February 17 at my mother’s funeral. (I had been telling her for years that her social life revolved around funerals so I think it counts.) I was crazy busy for the next month getting her house cleaned out and kept talking to my friends about all the things we were going to do when I was done. (I had just retired in mid-January.) The day after I took the last box of her belongings to Goodwill, the city issued stay at home orders.
Sunday, March 15: it was Crappy Action Movie Night at my local sports bar, and all the regulars were there. Probably about a dozen of us. The sports bar was promoting its St. Patrick’s Day party on March 17, but was forced to close on Monday, March 16.