Normal

This pandemic has brought all sorts of unique experiences with it, and today brought two more.

We’ve had food trucks visiting our neighborhood for the past few Saturdays, which I’ve seen posted in the neighborhood listserv, but I hadn’t checked them out until today. Maxine’s basketball team decided to rendezvous at The Cheese Truck for grilled cheeses at 6:00. It was the strangest thing walking through the neighborhood and coming upon a food truck in the middle of a block surrounded by houses. Once we got our food, we sauntered down the hill to the park, where we could properly spread out and catch up with each other.

The second new experience today was Edwin’s adventure. He and five other boys headed out on their bikes to a huge underground parking garage in Crystal City for a nerf gun war. They raced through several nearly empty levels as they hid and ducked from one another. This never could have happened during normal times. I’m beginning to wonder what normal is these days.