Life Under Quarantine

"Then Starve." -Mariah 0.1

Imagine this. One day, you're on a beautiful, white sand beach in Florida. You're staying in a super cool townhouse in a resort. You wake up to the salty breeze flowing in through your balcony door. You've only argued with your parents once this week. Life is good.

The next, you drive nine hours straight to get home only to find your once nice, bustling suburb is now a pre-apocalyptic war zone.

Okay, maybe not apocalyptic per se, but it was pretty bad. For example, we went to the grocery store to restock the fridge since we had no food from being gone for a week, and the place was ransacked. Isles and isles of bare, empty shelves. No bread, no eggs, no snack food, no canned goods. Yeah, they cleared out the canned goods. All that was left were a section of 102oz cans of green beans and hominy.

We ended up having to go to multiple stores, and luckily made it home with a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, and the last box of store brand frosted flakes. The next morning, my parents got up at 7am to get to the stores right when they opened at 8 to keep my family of six from resorting to cannibalism.

Fast forward a week. We've been to the store just about everyday stocking up on food, trying to find toilet paper (which has become a rare commodity apparently), and for whatever reason buying 20 lbs of flour. I'm the only one who really bakes, so I guess I know what my family is expecting me to do during quarantine.

Anyway, so we've got two weeks of food stored in the pantry, and fun fact about my family, I have three younger brothers. Anyone who spends any time around boys will know that they eat everything. With this in mind, my parents felt the need to hold a family meeting in the living room for the sole purpose of telling my brothers they are not allowed to eat us out of house and home. No snacking out of boredom. Just breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They even entertained the idea of putting locks on the pantry and refrigerator. The older two were offended. The youngest is a toddler, so he didn't have any clue what was happening. 

I found it absolutely hilarious.

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Thanks for reading! Come back on Wednesday for our first installation of Quarantine Quenchers: Quarantine-friendly activities from our families to yours!

-TAC