Parked Cars

I noticed this morning that there were hardly any parked cars on our block. When we went to bed the street was completely parked up but now everyone has gone to work.

It has been three years now since the covid pandemic shut everything down. This time in 2020 everyone was either out of work or working from home. The city had to rescind the alternate parking regulations because there were so many people staying home. It has only been this past year or so that things have somewhat gone back to normal. One might say that actually there is a new normal.

Parking on our block has always been tight because of all the apartments across the street. Every house has a driveway but not enough room for all of the cars. We were lucky that our driveway could hold two cars.

I feel fortunate that the pandemic happened three years after we retired. We were able to travel before the restrictions happened and we had time to get used to being at home a lot more of the time. So when the pandemic hit and people were shut in their homes we were already somewhat used to the new reality.