When I drive by movie theaters

[kairos12]

and see the posters for movies that are displayed featuring movies dating from March I am reminded of Chernobyl.

Maybe make that into a anti-trump add. The total halt in time.

Thanks Reich Wing and Chump.

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm starting to wonder if I will live long enough for all this to fade into memory...

even if I survive COVID-19 itself.

[kairos12]

2. I hear you. My motto is

survive long enough to vote!

[Totally Tunsie]

3. That's my goal.

I absolutely refuse to die while Chump is in office. There will be no resting in peace under that circumstance.

Before I go, I want to see our world return to a measurable level of normalcy.

[Initech]

4. Seriously, we should have seen Black Widow, Tenent, and No Time To Die by now.

Instead we're sitting here waiting when / if those movies will ever be shown in theaters. And when we will ever be able to go to theaters again.

[cureautismnow]

9. I know. I was looking forward to the sequel to A Quiet Place, too.

There's no escaping to the theatres nowadays...

[Initech]

11. I was really looking forward to No Time To Die.

Fuck you COVID-19.

[PJMcK]

5. We left our NYC apt in early March

We recently went back to check on things, gather some other stuff and order take-out sushi.

Our apartment was a time capsule! The kitchen calendar with events that never happened. To do lists for projects that are on indefinite hold. Travel brochures for a European vacation that was supposed to begin in late March; it will probably not happen anytime soon.

There were lots of other things, too. We didn’t think we’d be retreating to our mountain house for this long, maybe longer.

Weird.

[Totally Tunsie]

7. Sounds like The Twilight Zone.

Is that you, Rod?

[PJMcK]

8. Totally Zone-ish

There was a bag a dirty laundry hanging in my closet and a few glasses in the kitchen sink.

The strangest thing was

[ibegurpard]

6. This is particularly painful for me

Moviegoing is one of the activities i truly miss.

[Initech]

10. Same.

I had a lot of movies I was supposed to go see this year. This was supposed to be a great year for movies. Then this shithead virus comes along...

[hunter]

12. My wife and I would go to the movies and dinner once or twice a month.

I'm missing that a lot.

Whatever we're not spending on movie dates we are sending to the local food bank.

We watch movies on Netflix or rent them from the Redbox but it's not the same.

[Ilsa]

13. There was grass and weeds growing in a school parking lot

I passed by today. No one has used the parking lot in four months. Normally, it only gets about 4 weeks of nonuse during summer due to summer lunch programs, etc.

[JustBidenOurTime]

14. Funny you should mention that. I was on an errand a couple of days ago and took a short cut

through the back entrance and around to the front of a mega-cinema building near DFW Airport and experienced that same post-apocalyptic vibe as I passed by the front portico and saw the movie posters. Also, as the poster above said re: a school parking lot, this huge parking lot also had grass growing through the concrete seams. I literally stopped and got wrapped up in the scene, gazing at it in awe and dread.

I've been to that cinema a few times and it felt truly a Twilight Zone moment for me seeing it in that state in the middle of this Metroplex.

[Totally Tunsie]

16. Love your username!

Welcome to DU.

A couple of other posters have written of similar encounters, and the Twilight Zone reference seems to perfectly describe the sensation. Yours was an interesting story.

[Xolodno]

15. I only went into the office a few days out of the week anyway, due to the fact...

...how far I live from it.

Before the shut down, we were told you only have to come in voluntarily. I did one day....practically nobody there. Then, the shut down happened. Haven't been back since as the company said they won't reopen the offices until they are 100% sure its safe. They may open on a limited basis....that being strictly voluntary and limited number of people...and once they hit the limit, turn everyone else back.

They have allowed employee's to come back and pick up monitors, docking stations, etc. from their desk if it makes working from home easier. As for me, I'm used to working on a one screen laptop at home, having three different monitors at work is nice, but I'm pretty good with Alt-Tab. Plus if in a jam, I have another personal monitor I can hook up.

But another co-worker in a meeting said he went in to pick up some equipment....and its like time stood still. Calendars all left in March, jigsaw puzzles in the common area, still there, untouched, dead plants, chairs in the same arrangement, etc. He said it felt very creepy.