Jim Gaffigan: Are we naïve to believe it’s over?

Happy Father’s Day! I sincerely hope all the dads out there enjoy this special day of government-mandated paternal gratitude.

Being a father is amazing. It’s the most important thing I will fail at, but can we focus on what we are all secretly thinking?

It’s over! Can you believe it? I mean it is, right?  Obviously, it isn’t “over” over, but it’s kind of over, right? 

Finally!

And It’s been a long time coming. Believe me. I didn’t always look like this. Here is a picture of me from last March: 

[Okay, that’s a picture of me from college with my best friend in college, beer.] 

Do you know how many commentaries I did about my experience, our shared experience, dealing with the last year-and-a-half? A hundred and fifty! 

OK, fine, it was a lot. 

• Week 1: Family life under lockdown
• Week 2: Life in quarantine is like a sitcom
• Week 3: Spring arrives!
• Week 4: Lessons of “distance learning”
• Week 5: Kids, quarantine and sanity are not compatible
• Week 6: Consuming all news, all the time
• Week 7: Jim Gaffigan discovers he misses strangers
• Week 8: On sharing dinner with the masses
• Week 9: On living in unprecedented times
• Week 10: Are we REALLY all in this together?
• Week 11: On not knowing what comes next
• Week We Stopped Counting: Jim Gaffigan on what dads REALLY want on Father’s Day
• Jim Gaffigan on getting the whole lockdown thing wrong
• 2020, please turn your notifications off
• Jim Gaffigan on his first drive-in standup show
• On living in a time warp
• On acquiring a green thumb
• Back to (home) school
• Summer memories, ’50s style
• Blondes’ bad rap
• On the painstaking, belabored marathon of an election
• On saving face while wearing a mask
• Jim Gaffigan’s 2020 set to music
• Jim Gaffigan’s 2020 waitlist
• Why can’t Jim Gaffigan find his TV remote?
• Jim Gaffigan on Super Bowl LV: The GOAT vs. the Kid
• Pandemic anniversary: Jim Gaffigan marks one year of lockdown
• Jim Gaffigan: Take a hike!
• Jim Gaffigan, father of five, picks his favorite

And now, it’s over!

It is, right?

I don’t know why I’m hesitant to say it’s over. Is that being superstitious? I’m just being realistic. Well, optimistic. I’m being an optimistic realist in assuming it’s over.

What if those of us that think it’s over are being naïve? Have we learned nothing from the last 15 months? How many times did we think we saw the light at the end of tunnel only to realize it was just another news alert on our phones about some other string being pulled from the fabric of normalcy?

Don’t we remember the ending of “Friday the 13th,” when the girl thinks she has survived the nightmare, only to be attacked in the moment of relief? 

I’m just being silly. It’s over!

(I’m not going to say WHAT is over, ’cause, you know, I don’t want it coming after me.)

Anyway, Happy Father’s Day. Oh, and kids: Enjoy camp this summer! Look out for Jason!

     
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Story produced by Julie Kracov. Editor: Lauren Barnello.