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"While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and home

"While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and homeless people aren't welcome in restaurants anyway. So we would get takeout and go find a table somewhere outdoors. Much to our annoyance, this popularized some of our favorite out-of-the-way eating places." I'm wondering what this means about how this happened. Did you write articles about these restaurants or review them online? How did getting takeout and eating at a table popularize these restaurants? Just because people saw you eating nearby?

thaunatos 6y ago
I believe she meant that she popularized the tables/areas where he was eating, not the restaurants.
- code_duck 6y ago
  Oh, thanks. That makes sense.
atom058 6y ago
I think the "this" in the text refers to the paragraph before your excerpt, i.e. the pandemic caused a lot of regular people to eat their food outside instead of in rastaurants. "Getting to that point, where _a global pandemic_ was kind of an annoying blip in my life, was a long strange journey. It included nearly six years of homelessness. While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and homeless people aren't welcome in restaurants anyway. So we would get takeout and go find a table somewhere outdoors. Much to our annoyance, _this_ popularized some of our favorite out-of-the-way eating places."
- code_duck 6y ago
  Oh, that's a good interpretation! Slight change of topic, but relevant to the other content of the quoted passage, I share the same experience. Having had my life and livelihood significantly disrupted since ~2015, the global pandemic did more to bring other people to my level of distress than cause problems for me.

thaunatos 6y ago

I believe she meant that she popularized the tables/areas where he was eating, not the restaurants.

code_duck 6y ago
Oh, thanks. That makes sense.

atom058 6y ago

I think the "this" in the text refers to the paragraph before your excerpt, i.e. the pandemic caused a lot of regular people to eat their food outside instead of in rastaurants. "Getting to that point, where _a global pandemic_ was kind of an annoying blip in my life, was a long strange journey. It included nearly six years of homelessness. While homeless, my sons and I routinely tried to find out-of-the-way public tables. For purposes of germ control, we didn't want to eat in restaurants and homeless people aren't welcome in restaurants anyway. So we would get takeout and go find a table somewhere outdoors. Much to our annoyance, _this_ popularized some of our favorite out-of-the-way eating places."

code_duck 6y ago
Oh, that's a good interpretation! Slight change of topic, but relevant to the other content of the quoted passage, I share the same experience. Having had my life and livelihood significantly disrupted since ~2015, the global pandemic did more to bring other people to my level of distress than cause problems for me.