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What did you take for granted before lock down that you vow not to after?

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    Woke Hogan
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    Not speaking for myself here, since I always valued my health, but I hope people will walk away from this with a whole new appreciation for how lucky they are to be healthy and safe. Maybe put less energy towards shallow pursuits like drinking and travelling.


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    [Deleted User]
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    A nice creamy pint of Guinness.


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    #4
    gmisk
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    Having a lovely day out in town.
    Cinema, lunch, couple of pints, home.


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    manonboard
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    Drinking and travelling tbh, miss them so much!


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    #6
    Stark
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    Trip to the pub. If it's a pub in a foreign country, all the sweeter.


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    #7
    Signore Fancy Pants
    Registered Users Posts: 3,682 ✭✭✭Signore Fancy Pants


    I took for granted not having 500 packets of Koka noodles, 20 packs of ready to bake baguettes and a wall of toilet paper in my house.


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    [Deleted User]
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    Nixers....used enjoy (and complain about) going off doing bits and bobs in evenings for extra cash


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    Pherekydes
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    Parkrun!

    Hopping in my car and driving somewhere like the Hell Fire club and having a run or walk.


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    #10
    Richmond Ultra
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Richmond Ultra


    Watching a live sporting event.


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    #11
    BillyBiggs
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    As simple as it sounds going to the cinema.


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    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,236 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    Giving the middle finger to oap drivers.


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    Cody montana
    Registered Users Posts: 5,236 ✭✭✭Cody montana


    manonboard wrote: »
    Drinking and travelling tbh, miss them so much!

    Had you cancelled travel plans?


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    #14
    Happy4all
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    assholes starting new Covid 19 threads every minute of the day.

    read corona threads


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    YFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Cody montana wrote: »
    Giving the finger to oaps.

    And this.


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    #16
    HeidiHeidi
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    Flying willy nilly around the place quite a lot of times per year, purely for leisure purposes.



    I actually did feel vaguely guilty about it, but it didn't stop me.


    I suspect it'll be a long time before my lifestyle of recent years will be fully resumed, if ever.


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    #17
    Mam of 4
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    Truthfully, simply hugging people (not randomers btw!) . Never realised how many of us greet each other with a hug , family or otherwise , until you don't have that option anymore.


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    anewme
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    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    Not speaking for myself here, since I always valued my health, but I hope people will walk away from this with a whole new appreciation for how lucky they are to be healthy and safe. Maybe put less energy towards shallow pursuits like drinking and travelling.

    Travelling is not a shallow pursuit.

    If I died tomorrow, I would be happy how seeing the world has made me happy and travelling on my own has grown me and broadened my outlooks. I've visited Italy so many times and it is an amazing place. Seeing the sadness the Italians are experiencing now makes me even more determined and hopeful that this will end and I will see the world again.

    Watched Rick Steins lost weekends this evening, he was in Sicily. Sitting at a street cafe, in a square, having a coffee or glass wine and just living in the moment.

    What is shallow though, is to judge others through your own narrow lens.


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    #19
    banie01
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    Access to my mistress ;)


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    #20
    Cookie_Monster
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    Social liberties


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    #21
    eviltwin
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    Walking into a supermarket. Such a simple, mundane thing is now so much more complicated.


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    #22
    Sardonicat
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    Being with my fiance. Can't believe I had started to take that or granted, but I had.


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    #23
    Clegg
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    My grandparents. I'm 29 years old and I still have all four! But as I've gotten a bit older I've starting taking it for granted that they'll be around for a chat whenever, so I wasn't as diligent in contacting them as regularly as I should.

    That sounds strange because they're all getting on now. Youngest is 79 and all of them having underlying conditions. But they've been an ever present in my life since day 1. I just overlooked how lucky I was to have them. I'm privileged that I've gotten to know them for so long and I want them to know that face to face.


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    Pac1Man
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    This whole thing has made me realise how little I actually do! Nothing much has changed for me to be honest, apart from work and going to the supermarket.


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    #25
    thecretinhop
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    my dad holding my 6 month old baby


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    thecretinhop
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    my dad holding my 6 month old baby


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    thecretinhop
    Registered Users Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭thecretinhop


    my dad holding my 6 month old baby


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    #28
    fryup
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    coughing & sneezing in public


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    #29
    [Deleted User]
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    Pac1Man wrote: »
    This whole thing has made me realise how little I actually do! Nothing much has changed for me to be honest, apart from work and going to the supermarket.

    I’m a bit like that too. Pub or a concert about 5 times a year and outside that I barely leave the couch from a Friday evening til a Monday morning.
    If I could do my Saturday morning shopping and visit my parents then I’d be back to normal.


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    gmisk
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    thecretinhop wrote: »
    my dad holding my 6 month old baby
    Triplets?


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    #31
    [Deleted User]
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    I miss the little things like going for breakfast after a swim, or just wandering around window shopping. I miss the OH who is in isolation. I really, really, miss hugs and cuddles.


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