QUARANTINE PARTNER: IF YOU COULD CHOOSE ONE FROM HISTORY

Instead of the quarantine partner you have, or don’t have, choose one person from history to spend the same time with.

Some people would be good campers, some not, but one might be just right.

Who would it be? Here’s a few:

Leonardo DaVinci would be be a good quarantine partner

He’d keep the coffee flowing. Somewhere I read he drank forty cups a day.

He’d always have new things to put on the wall for discussion.

“Leo, I think Mona would look better on a smaller wall. We’re not expecting crowds.”

He’d be quiet while he designed new machines and helicopters.

Kurt Vonnegut, but he’d have to quit smoking

From most pictures, he looked a little smelly, like he didn’t notice the hanging smoke from Pall Malls in his clothes.

We could have a Cat’s Cradle championship, time travel to Tralfamadore, and talk about Iowa.

“Why didn’t you hit the mats like John Irving?”

Paul Newman

The guy liked a beer now and then.

When asked how he and his wife Joanne Woodward stayed married for so long, he said, “If something’s broken, we fix it. We don’t throw things away, we fix them.”

Got lots to fix around here, so let the learning begin.

Would Anyone Be A Better Choice Than Who You’re With

My short answer is no. I’d even add two more.

One in my crew has rediscovered their military roots. Apparently I’m now in the Navy, and in the Navy the day begins with a plan.

Keep in mind, they are not Navy, Navy trained, or even carry military experience, but like others with those qualifications, they are leaders.

Why Navy, when I’m an Army vet? Dunno, but when I have my parade in my dreams, I’m not wearing a general’s stars.

People who never served, but thought about it from the cushion of years, they see themselves wearing a hat with scrambled eggs, slim, and good posture.

They are the Admiral of their fleet, the commander of their ship/boat. They give orders and snap to it.

A former Army Pfc is usually a hard case for fantasy rank. I met captains who weren’t worth a damn, guys forced into service because they accepted scholarship money from one service or another, and fulfilled their duty with a large dash of bitterness.

I met sergeants with pregnant wives who told about ‘going over the hill’ too many times.

An officer and a gentleman would never chug beer in a base PX and do cigarette tricks like making a lit butt disappear into their mouth, then pop back into position without a burn.

As an officer you’d never see someone with oiled up hair accidentally set themselves on fire and pat it out like an everyday deal.

Best Quarantine Partner Practice

Keep the place picked up, vacuumed up, and washed up.

Wash your own dishes.

Take a shower and put on clean clothes.

Wash your hands and stay where you belong.

Do this and you might avoid coronavirus; more important, you won’t be a problem to yourself, or others.