—u/Doggystyle_Rainbow “Being in the Army, basically anyone will tell you: If the government overpays you, set that money to the side. It’s not yours, and someday in the future when you’re having a real bad day, they’re gonna come around asking for it. The government always gets its money.” —u/OfTheHunt “We somehow managed to make three lucky decisions in the past five years: bought our first house in 2018, refinanced at 2.5%, and bought a new car in 2020 — less than six months after we bought our car, the lots were empty.” —u/rachelface927 “I work in family law. The pandemic pushed us to max client capacity by June 2020, and it is not slowing down.” —u/monkey_monkey_monkey “I’m still waiting for the pilot shortage to reach levels that they’ll pay for flight school. I would love to be an airline pilot, but $100,000 for flight school is a bit too much.” —u/Hangman_Matt “I worked at a veterans home, and that’s exactly what happened. The patient went to the hospital, came back, refused to be tested, and ended up having COVID. A nurse caught it from him, and soon after, the entire hallway was dead from COVID.” —u/blac_sheep90 “A bunch of New Yorkers in my company own houses in Florida that are sitting empty, and they can’t sell because Floridians can’t afford them.” —u/whateveryouwant4321 “Everything was closed, people’s mental health was going downhill, and they closed the most low-risk places possible that were also somewhere that could help with stress. I live in a fairly small city too; it wouldn’t have been crowded even if more people than usual were using it. “I’m still mad when I think about it.” —u/ihopeyoulikeapples “I am a hospice nurse and was working in nursing homes when it all started. Just drank more and more. I kept it up, and one day I got admitted to the hospital. I had lost 30 pounds, the result of vodka as meals, and I almost died. “Long story short, I no longer drink, I am grateful to be alive, and I gained about 35 pounds back because without alcohol, all I wanted was candy.” —u/Imnotlikeothergirlz “A chemical factory that was responsible for like 20% of the national market’s chlorine (they did other pool chemicals, too) burned down during the pandemic. “I heard about it first thing in the morning that day and told my dad, who has a pool, about it, and he stocked up. He had to buy some chlorine toward the end of the pool season, and he was shocked at the price.” —u/Wrong_Hombre
