- Welcome, everybody, to our support group
for introverts in the age of COVID.
Thank you for social distancing.
How are you guys doing?
- Hey, I'm doing okay, I think I'm just a little nervous.
- Nervous, okay, about what exactly?
- I'm just not ready for things to be opening up already.
- Okay, so you think it's unsafe?
- I don't think so, I just don't wanna have to go back
to needing a reason to cancel plans.
- Oh my gosh, same.
Last year my grandma died eight times.
- Wait, what?
- I know, it was a nightmare keeping things straight.
She had three car accidents, pneumonia, and Dengue fever.
I'm shocked I didn't tell someone the same story twice.
Maybe I did, and they just assumed
my grandpa remarried a lot.
- Totally.
At least now I can say stuff like,
"Oh, it's a shame we can't go grab a beer,
maybe when things are back to normal."
They know I don't mean it, I know I don't mean it,
but at least it looks like I made an effort.
- So, you don't actually want to see your friends again?
- No, I do, I just like the system we have now.
We meet outside a restaurant, we grab takeout,
we go to a park and eat away from everybody else.
No extra people, it's perfect.
- You know you can do that anyway, right?
That's literally just a picnic.
- Well, yeah, but right now I have a built-in eject button.
So if I'm not feeling up to it on the day of,
I just say, "Oh, I've got a little cough, I've got a fever,"
and boom, two weeks of guilt-free me-time, baby.
- That is brilliant.
- What if you guys just turn down plans directly?
- I don't wanna do that, I'm not great with conflict.
It took me two-and-a-half years to tell my dad
he was saying my girlfriend's name wrong.
We almost broke up over it.
- Plus, if you keep turning things down,
you stop getting invited.
- Is that a problem?
- Uh, of course!
Just because I don't wanna go
doesn't mean I don't wanna be invited.
I want to know they're thinking of me from a distance.
- Exactly!
Man, it is great to know
I'm not the only person who feels like that.
- This is a great moment,
I'm glad you guys have so much in common.
You can work together
to get more comfortable at making plans.
Maybe after tonight's meeting.
- That sounds like a great idea, I'd love to,
but tonight's not good for me.
- Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, me neither.
In fact, I'm feeling kind of, like,
a little bit of a tickle in my throat.
Probably nothing, but you can't be too careful.
- Of course, next time though, for sure.
It's just my grandma right now,
she's a little bit under the weather.
- Oh yeah, yeah, definitely, once things are back to normal.
We'll do it, and we'll grab a beer.
Perfect.
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