Corona Chronicles: Lockdown makes Joburger confront gridlocked passage and a lipstick dilemma
Community member, Tracy Schloesser shares her social distancing experiences in a very witty series she is calling her Corona Chronicles. In today’s post, she shares the challenges she is forced to confront on her Monday morning during lockdown.
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It’s Day 4 of the hostage situation but it’s also Monday which means it’s an ‘I owe, I owe – it’s off to work I go’ day.
Fortunately, my travel time is considerably less and I find I don’t have to use Waze and Google maps quite as much as I did on loadshedding days. Except of course if I leave for my office at the same time that SP (son person) is doing his usual ‘fly-to-the-bathroom-and-back-to-the bedroom-like-a-bat-out-of-hell-routine’ which renders the passage somewhat gridlocked.
I checked Waze for an alternative route but the only suggestion was to go via the cottage pane bedroom window into the garden around the house and in through the back door. Now last time I checked this body of mine was closer to being more Rubenesque than Kate Moss and I have no doubt that my ample bottom would not quite fit through the window. So guess I will just have to play some music and wait for the traffic to pass. Fortunately I have narrowed down the travelling time to my office to five point eight seconds so if I leave on time I can afford to be kind and let other travellers go in before me.
But I am left with one huge dilemma: While I still take my handbag to the office with me as normal, I no longer have the 45 minutes travelling time I used to have to put on my lipstick before arriving at the office. I still put the rest of my make-up on in my bedroom as usual but it’s just the damn lipstick that is giving me the biggest stress.
So do I break my routine totally and (heaven forbid) put the lipstick on before I leave for the office or brave it and go with naked lips to work for the rest of the lockdown (which could send my work colleagues screaming for the hills when on a video Skype call)? The struggle is real people!
