Have you heard about the pubs?

I had just left my flat to stretch my legs since I had spent the day working on my screen, typing away which I never knew until I started this job could be so tiring and draining. Walking in the sunshine on a Friday afternoon the minute I could clock off seemed like a brilliant idea nothing special or extra about that.


My bestfriend and I walked along the canal and saw a pub. We both looked at each other knowing exactly what we were both thinking no words had to be exchanged to know that we were going in that pub and having a pint each. As we walk up this man came out saying ‘Have you heard the news?’ as if we were his friend and no, we hadn’t heard any news. We have never seen that man before, never been in that pub and all we intended to do was have a pint and continue our sunny walk down the canal.


As we walked in the bar looked at us and said ‘Have you heard the news?’ now it was becoming strange two people in the same pub asking us the same question but no one was telling us what had happened.



‘What news?’



‘All pubs, clubs and restaurants are closing at 7pm today for a month or even longer’



Well let me just say that I never knew I had such a love for a pub until I heard that news. I don’t drink every day but the weekends it’s a treat that’s very much needed after a long week at work.  ‘What…really…no way…it can’t be’



It’s as if someone died. Everyone was looking at their pint like it was the last thing they will ever see.

I don’t even think pubs, clubs, gyms and restaurants etc is a huge deal them being closed. As a hundred years ago we coped fine, however, the minute someone says you can’t do this and you cant do that. My body and my brain want to rebel and show them whose boss. Me, not them. But they are defiantly the boss in this situation and there is something more of a boss than the government and that’s this virus itself.


That barman pulled that pint amazingly and I can still taste it now. For now, it so long pubs and my fellow pulled pint until isolation is over. Let’s all admit though once isolation is over the world will be having a party and the pints will be drank maybe a little too much just to compensate for what we have missed out on.


What I have learned from all of this is that I have not grown up from when I was a child as someone telling me to do something just makes me want to go against everything even more. I have a very sad love for pubs and pints which I didn't know existed till that very last pint, maybe I can give up on the dating websites now and just marry a pint. It wouldn't be weird as I've seen videos of women marrying roller coaster and eating sofas because they love it so much. Marrying a pint is quite the norm.