Here we are at the bar, on the anniversary of not being at the bar. In honor of this day, our host, Linda G. Hill thinks, “it would be interesting to see not just how everyone has coped, or not, over the last year, but to share our common experiences as a way to connect, to feel a little less alone, perhaps. She offers that in conjunction with her Stream of Consciousness Saturday prompt:
“Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is ‘day/week/month/year.’ Use one, use them all, use them any way you’d like. Enjoy!”
If we were having a beer, we would be looking back over the past year and wondering how we actually made it.
“Good afternoon, Dan. How are things?”
“Things are good, David, but I was wondering if you might be interested in helping me answer some questions?”
“Is one of them, ‘what will you be drinking?’ Because my answer to that is John Howell’s Bourbon.”
“I heard that. I bring that right over, along with a cold Corona for the quiz master.”
“It’s not me, these questions come from Linda G. Hill.”
“The prompt lady?”
“I think she might prefer ‘author’ but yes, the prompt lady, David.”
“OK, author, What are the questions?”
“She wants us to share experiences around the words ‘day/week/month/year.’ As we look back over the past year.”
“Ugh, Dan. That’s sounds kind of hard. I mean I’d have to think about that, and as you know, I don’t come here to think.”
“I know, David, so I’m going to make it easy.”
“Here you go, bourbon, ice, seltzer and cherries and a Corona.”
“Thanks Cheryl.”
“OK, Dan. What’s easy question number one?”
“What was the worst day in the past year?”
“That’s easy. One year ago, today, we showed up and the bar was closed.”
“Cheryl did sneak us in the back.”
“Yes, but it was still pretty bad.”
“OK, what was the best day?”
“October seventeenth.”
“What happened on October seventeenth, David.”
“My mother-in-law turned eighty-eight.”
“But you couldn’t celebrate, could you?”
“No Dan, we could not. That’s why it was the best day!”
“OK, that’s somewhat specific to you and your family situation. Mind if I add a best day for me?”
“Knock yourself out, Dan.”
“I think my best day was in here, on October third.”
“Oh, please. That was the day of Teagan’s party where I never got a drink.”
“Yeah, but it was so nice. So many people came to help celebrate.”
“Ha! OK, how about the worst week?”
“I’d have to say the first full week of lockdown. That was awful.”
“I’d have to agree, David. And I submit that the best week was the week of June twenty-second. This place opened, I got a haircut and I had breakfast at Allegro.”
It’s gonna be hard to pick a month, Dan. March, April, May – remember May? They were going to lift the restrictions, then not, then they were, then not…I hated May.”
“How about MarPrilAy?”
“That works, and the best month might be JulGustSepToBer.”
“Agreed, but do NOT include November in there.”
“Fair enough. No one wants to talk about November, December or January.”
“Well, Linda did have an interesting run at Just-Jot-January.”
“You already mentioned her, Dan.
“For all she does for us, I don’t think two mentions are out of line.”
“OK, Dan, are we done?”
“Not quite, David. We need to look at the year. You know, what was the best thing and what was the worst.”
“The worst thing about twenty-twenty, Dan. ‘Nuff said, the year itself was the worst. The pandemic, the riots, the election, no sports, no travel – they even ran out of Corona, Dan.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t.”
“Only because you were hoarding twelve-packs like they contained toilet paper.”
“Is that what you’re saying is the best thing, Dan, that you didn’t run out of beer?”
“That was a good thing, but no. I think the best thing was this community. All of our friends who came here week after week.
“That was a very good thing, Dan.”
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