Do you remember what it was like last year, just as the entire world was going into Lockdown Mode for the very first time? Panic. Chaos. Fear. Buying tons of toilet paper and canned goods. And most of our daily habits and routines being thrown completely out of whack by Covid-19 and the new health and safety regulations.
As human beings, we need structure, order, and routine to thrive and survive. They all help us make sense of the world and work as a safety blanket of sorts. So it’s only natural that, while in mandatory lockdown, we’ve picked up some errr, shall we say, slightly peculiar habits. And by that I mean they’re so incredibly bizarre that we couldn’t wait to share them with you, dear Pandas.
The folks over on TikTok revealed the ‘mundane but unhinged’ things they started doing during the lockdown after entrepreneur Nikki Blank, aka Moneyintheblank, revealed how her weird lockdown habit is eating a sunset pickle. Yup! We love that so much, we can’t even put it into words. Don’t forget to upvote your fave answers as you scroll down and share your own Twilight Zone pandemic rituals in the comment section at the bottom.
Image credits: moneyintheblank
#21
I abandoned all my previously held beliefs about religion, politics, gender identity, and sexual orientation…oh, and I started painting wine bottles!
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134points
#24
Whenever I’m alone for too long and watching TV by myself [and] I have a thought about what I’m watching I will pause the TV. Pause it, look to my left as if someone is sitting there, and I will argue with myself about my opinions on the show. There’s no one there. I only play the show when I’m done saying my thought.
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125points
#25
Before I moved, I would go for a sunset walk every night behind my house and write the names of the people I hate in the sand.
103points
#26
I started taking shots of maple syrup whenever I get stressed.
102points
#28
Sweeping my floor while waiting for my morning coffee is a new ritual. Every single morning, like blindly in the dark.
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97points
#30
I have this one blonde eyebrow hair that grows super long and I used to pluck it, but now I just let it grow out. It’s probably over an inch. It’s already fallen out naturally once so it’ll probably fall out soon, but I just love it.
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91points
#31
I will make stupid lyrics to the songs and sing them out loud to no one. Like fully in public I will sing at my dog telling her to poop.
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85points
#32
I keep eating pieces of fruit and when I go to shoot, I grow up and now I have a mandarin tree. A lemon tree, a white guava tree. This one didn't like being reported, but she's bouncing back. I have more pink guava guavas growing some green guava. I have an olive tree and I have a tiny little navel tree, navel, orange tree that I'm trying to bonzai. I also have some yellow dragon fruit in the red dragon fruit. But this one's from a friend. I live in a tiny graduate housing apartment. Why did I choose trees?
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83points
#33
FaceTiming men on dating apps without warning.
70points
#36
I got, like super into freakin composting. This is my stinky compost bucket full of stinky compost. Smells like sh*t. I have absolutely no purpose for it. I am just collecting stinky sh*t juice. Also, that system is called Bokashi Bucket. If you go to Banning's and ask for Cocchi, it's not going to go down well.
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51points