b'L ast year has been a lot to handle. It started with a bangliterallywith the threat of war with Wasnt All Bad.Right?Iran. Since then, we cycled through twelve months of crazy headlines, that couldnt have been written by even the best fiction writers. Massive brush fires in Australia?Check. The untimely and tragic death of basketball star Kobe Bryant?Check. Murder hornets?Check. A global pandemic that shut down the planet for months?Check. The kickoff (and resolution) of one of the wildest Presidential elections inrecent history?Check.While we could wallow about the misery of 2020, it is more fun to look back on the things that made us laugh instead of cry. One major part of 2020 was social distancingcreatingNetflix continued its streaming service domination with at least six feet of space between persons to preventloads of quality original programming, including the hit spreading the virus through breathing droplets of spit.show, Love is Blind. On the show, single men and wom-For many, it started off as an inconveniencehaving toen were challenged to meet, fall in love, and get engaged, maintain distance from people you know and love, but doall sight unseen. The couples did not meet until after their not live with, to keep them safe. However, it was the firstengagement as they were wedding planning. Unsurpris-time a person could politely back away from close talkers,ingly, most couples did not get married.decline unwanted handshakes or hugs or remain in their home avoiding human contact, without an awkward con- The Pentagon unsealed classified files showing docu-versation or explanation. Is this a practice mentation and video of UFOs. These unidentified flying we can maintain in a post-COVID world? objects were seen moving quickly and making dangerous Asking for a friend. maneuvers in recordings across the country. We are not saying the declassification of these Mr. Peanut, the iconic mascot of Planters nuts,materials had anything to do with reportedly died, which is strange because he isthe storming of Nevadas Area 51 a computer-generated figure. At his funeral,in 2019, but we want to believe it the Kool-Aid Man cried, a tear fell to thehelped.ground, and Baby Nut was born. This all came from a Super Bowl commer- It is hard to say that anything won 2020, cial, which was one of the last majorbut if we had to pick, we would choose sporting events to occur before thecreativity. While most of the world sat COVID-19 shutdown. Yeah, wequarantined to flatten the curve and did not get it, either. tamper the spread of COVID-19, many 6'