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We went out tonight, which was thrilling– Dude’s mom took us out to a restaurant for my birthday, we went to a place with a patio and sat outside and it was lovely and the waitress stood several feet away and it was a whole thing, but it was great to get restaurant food and we were really especially delighted that the restaurant in question is not shut down yet.

(God, so many are gone already. Who knows what will come back, what will grow from the ashes, I dont know, I can’t think too hard about it right now.)

As we were leaving, around 6pm, I got in the car, which was parked out on the street, and I glanced over at the loud neighbors’ house, which is two down.

There was a Trump 2020 sign in the yard. Like, back a ways, kind of crooked, near the side entry door, crammed in the lawn.

There was also a young man, maybe 20, skinny, shirtless, maskless, in the driveway, so I didn’t pause; he was pacing around like maybe he was doing work, on the remodeling they’re doing, IDK.

(”Maybe that’s Lorenzo,” Dude mused, and we Drove the Fuck Away.)

I intermittently worried, internally, about that fucking sign all evening. Like… would I put a note in the mail slot? Fuck I could write them a postcard, I know their address. so it would be really anonymous. God, I wouldn’t vandalize the sign, but– but it’s the plague, everyone’s home 24/7, I couldn’t do anything. Do I put up a sign in my yard? Do I need to? What do I do?

Anyway we got home well after dark, a bit after 9pm.

The sign is gone, I can tell even in the dark it’s not in their yard anywhere, or leaned against the house. Maybe it was only there as a joke. Maybe the young man was about to take it down; he was in motion as we went past on the way out, and I didn’t dare linger. Maybe he put it up, as a message to the people in the house. Maybe that was part of the disagreements they’ve been having over there. (I haven’t heard it but Dude complained they’ve been fighting a lot over there.)

(He’s still fretting over the possibility that the baby is named Lorenzo.)

Ugh just having seen the sign one time was upsetting, I still don’t know what I ought to do, but at least it’s gone.