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Remember when the year started and we weren't allowed to use the hose to wash the car?
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Remember that and how people were whinging about how bad that was?
"My car's so dirty, I can't wait till it rains and these restrictions end so I can wash the car ...."
And then 2020 said, "hold my beer ...".
The year didn't get better, it just spiraled from one bizarre scenario to the next. We all got served one proverbial s**t sandwich only to finish the last morsel of it and then get served another.
It should be renamed as 2020: The International Year of Doing Stuff All.
One thing after another, things we enjoy doing were put on the isolation list of "voided until 2020". Our "to do list", in turn, shrunk to the point every day now feels like Ground Hog Day and our banned list continue to grow.
No travel, no eating out, no sending the kids to school, no buying toilet paper, no shaking hands, no watching live sport, no going to work or gym , not getting our haircut or nails done .... to name just a few.
And it's only just gone July.
A colleague this week drew my attention to a new song written by talented American singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
Folds, who has family here, is currently stuck in Sydney and penning a new album during his isolation. But he also released a new song called "2020" which perfectly sums us this sod of a year.
In it he sings _
New Year's Eve, don't it seem,
Like decades ago?
Back in 2019, Back when life was slow,
Now it's June, we're just halfway done
2020, hey, are we having fun?
How many years will we try to cram into one?
God had to toss 1930 in.
He then goes onto a chorus where two lines I think nail this year right on the head _
We're not repeating history, just the parts that sucked,
2020, what the actual f ...
... well, I guess you know how that ends.
2020 can bugger off and bring on 2021 because there is no way it can be this bad ... Can it?
Julian O'Brien is the editor of the Illawarra Mercury
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Julian O'Brien
Editor of the Illawarra Mercury and former editor of The Advocate (North-West Tasmania). Journalism is simply about telling good stories well and we do so now across a broader platform than ever before. Our role as a regional masthead is to not only share the stories our readers care about but to be a passionate torch bearers for community at every opportunity. We are stronger together.
Editor of the Illawarra Mercury and former editor of The Advocate (North-West Tasmania). Journalism is simply about telling good stories well and we do so now across a broader platform than ever before. Our role as a regional masthead is to not only share the stories our readers care about but to be a passionate torch bearers for community at every opportunity. We are stronger together.
