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If you had known it was your last night out pre covid

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2toe · 16/01/2021 19:06

Light heartedly what would you have done if you had known that night would be your last completely free night for goodness knows how long?
Mine was a friends birthday, we had a lovely meal and a few drinks but if I’d known I would have absolutely gotten fairly drunk, sang karaoke, danced around some lamp posts, chatted up some random men, stayed up all night, I may have even gone to a night club (haven’t been in one of those since the 90s), I would have hugged everyone!

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indemMUND · 16/01/2021 22:07

Last night out was at a gig in Feb last year. I was on the guest list. I interacted with the lead singer at the afterparty and he gave me the come on. Much to my regret, anxiety won out and I couldn't even speak. Talk about dropping the ball at the worst possible time ever. I'll regret that for years.

sallysparrow157 · 16/01/2021 22:07

My last proper night out was in Jan 2019 - had a lovely night with great friends celebrating my friends birthday. I then got pregnant with twins! I was so looking forward to maybe having a pint or a glass of wine with some lunch in a beer garden last spring/summer! I’ve got high hopes for next year!!!
The night before lockdown both babies were poorly with a cold - the highlight was one of the babas being displeased about saline nasal drops and vomming profusely all over me at 2am! We self isolated from day one of lockdown and left the house 2 weeks later to a different world...

HeronLanyon · 16/01/2021 22:07

Think my last was last time I went to the ballet - mid March and ate there. Best thing I’d seen for ages ‘the cellist’. Didn’t have any idea at all any of this would happen - vague idea things would be shut down ‘for a bit to deal with it’. Went for my first ever winter far flung holiday of a lifetime just before. Tutankhamen exhibition also - when I think back now about how unbelievably crowded that was - bloody hell.

socketpocket · 16/01/2021 22:11

My last night was a late night drive to bring ds and all his belongings home from uni before lockdown started last March as we had a feeling he'd never go back to finish his final year actually at the university.

hartof · 16/01/2021 22:14

We were in the city centre (Manchester) 31st jan, it was so quiet! We ended up coming back to our local and it was so quiet! I wish we'd have stayed out!

userxx · 16/01/2021 22:17

Last night out was brilliant, especially looking back. Meal out with girlfriends, then a few pubs before going into a very crowded, sweaty, music pumping, no ventilation bar. We got exceptionally drunk and threw some moves on the dance floor.

laloue · 16/01/2021 22:21

On the other side of the world, amazing holiday, early days, wondering about signs in pharmacies saying “we’ve sold out of masks and sanitizer “ ,saw Elton in a stadium with about 39,998 other people. Drove through the night, stayed in the middle of nowhere...really should have stayed right there and not flown home in mid Feb. Little did we know.

SleepingStandingUp · 16/01/2021 22:24

I don't know when my last night out was. Lockdown was March, the babies were born December... So not 2019.

I think we had a night out in the Oct or Something when we had care for DS.

WHAT WOULD WE HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY??? PARTIED TIL I POPPED!!!!

Seriously though, made plans with friends, gone into the city, had some non alcoholic cocktails, seen a movie

Chickychoccyegg · 16/01/2021 22:30

My last night out was beginning of march last year, with dh, my best friend and her dh, a meal and drinks, and a little bit dancing!
We were as careful as we could to social distance, as there'd been a bit of talk about social distancing and she works for the NHS, so no hugging or anything, during lockdown (may) her dh was knocked off his bike and died, so I really wish I had given then both a huge hug when I last seen them

GodOfPhwoar · 16/01/2021 22:33

I’m in a bubble with a mate, so still going over with a bottle of wine. I’m not overly devastated about bars etc being closed, even though it’d be nice to go for a good pub meal.

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 16/01/2021 22:35

Fantasy last night

A live gig. Something Funky I can dance to. Packed out, hot and sweaty everyone getting into it in the moment. Some gin cocktails beforehand.

I want live music back so badly.

SleepingStandingUp · 16/01/2021 22:36

So sorry@Chickychoccyegg

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 16/01/2021 22:41

In actual fact I suspect my last 'night out' was a Center Parcs holiday with my whole family for my mums 70th in early March. We did the spa and meals out. It was lovely.
Didn't know at the time it would be her last birthday so of course I would not swop it for the world.

Shelby30 · 16/01/2021 22:42

I am starting to think mine was 2018 😮 I was pregnant most of 2019 and already had a toddler. Early 2020 had a newborn. I don't even know when, where or who it was with, how sad 😞😂

RoseMartha · 16/01/2021 22:49

My last night out was a good 7/8 months before lockdown. My dc were at their dads and I had gone to see a musical with my sister. Only to have a phone call less than ten mins in asking if I could collect the kids because they didnt want to stay the night. I did collect them after the show, they have not stayed over since. It was my first night out for over two years. I just get on with the fact me and nights out without dc are not meant to be.

BillyAndTheSillies · 16/01/2021 22:54

If I'd have known it would be our last night out for a year, I'd have asked my parents to look after the DC overnight instead of booking a babysitter and worrying about letting her get home!

Went for an awesome dinner with two great friends, then on to a hotel bar and back to theirs for more cocktails and chain smoking. It was fab. And looking back I remember I'd actually put my back out that morning and was considering cancelling. It was the 5th March 2020. Haven't seen them since. Talk daily but I miss them a lot.

I'm teetotal now, not sure what nights out post covid will look like for me now!

Forgothowmuchlhatehomeschoolin · 16/01/2021 23:03

Def would have gone somewhere with loud music, preferably live and danced the night away.
Not far from what l actually did - went to see an Oasis tribute band then to the local whilst having a few glasses of wine. Was a fab night.

Toscanello · 16/01/2021 23:18

It would have been a last night with my friends around the world who I can't see again for the foreseeable future. Italians, Americans, French , Scottish, English. All close friends
It was so.unexpected though you couldn't do it.

tatutata · 16/01/2021 23:20

I went to a pub In Mayfair with my sister. I had the most awful cough at the time, in February. So realistically I'd have gone home anyway, but if I'd known I'd have gone on to annabels

EileenGC · 16/01/2021 23:34

I would've walked with my friend to the sightseeing spot she wanted to see, instead of heading home due to being so tired and having lots of admin to do, and leaving her to it. I'd now give anything for this friend to be able to travel to my city, and I wouldn't care how cold or tired I was. We would wander around together.

I would've hugged my best friend so much tighter the last time I saw her. It was a few days before lockdown #1 and it already felt kind of 'final'. Only seen her in person once in the summer, and we never got closer than 2m as her DP and DM are vulnerable. It was hard being together all day and not being able to touch each other. We used to hug every day. I miss human contact.

Indecisive12 · 16/01/2021 23:35

I would have had more to drink and gone for a dance rather than home at midnight.

Breastfeedingworries · 16/01/2021 23:35

I knew it was the last night (the Saturday before lockdown so morally I shouldn’t of gone!)

I drank a lot, danced all over the place, kissed a man and flirted outrageously. It was a night to remember. I hugged a lot of people too (very stupid) and shouted Covid was fake in drunken slurs....

Anyway currently sat on the loo with Covid Hmm it’s not fake, I feel poorly and I behaved appallingly on my “last night out”

Kayakinggirl · 16/01/2021 23:37

It was the 21st of Jan, end of conference drinks on a rooftop bar in Kuala Lumpur. Was working for an Asian organisation, there were representatives from every country in Asia.

Some of the people from China got messages saying they currently could not return back to home/ place of work.

Others got messages saying that they were getting a forced weeks holiday the next week while their work place sorted things out.

People were laughing, joking and happy about the extra holiday say mountain was being created out of a mole hill.

Me and my co-worker flew home the next day- slightly moaning that we had to return when others got an extended trip.

Most of those people never went home again. One did not see her husband and 3 year old daughter till 8 months later. Lots lost all their possession. Most lost their jobs.

littlemisslozza · 16/01/2021 23:43

Mine was a school PTA quiz night, about two weeks before they announced lockdown would be happening. Always a really fun night and we enjoyed it. My birthday was a ten days later and by that point we had gone into an early lockdown due to (as it turned out, precautionary) advice from dr to shield a few days before everyone else. Now I'm looking at a likely second birthday under restrictions in March, a 'big' birthday for which I'd imagined we might have a family trip somewhere nice and a bit of a party at home. Perhaps I'll delay it for a year.

EBathory · 16/01/2021 23:45

Did a night out in the summer when our area was under limited restrictions- would have drunk more of these with my daughters friends

If you had known it was your last night out pre covid