Communal dining and group activities were also cancelled. And the facilities she was in, following national guidelines, didn't allow anybody to have any visitors. They'd go out to eat, go on long drives into the mountains. Family or her best friend would come nearly everyday. And for four years, somebody would visit her everyday. She moved into long-term care five years ago. The person with the daily routine in the story is Dee Brown. And I don't want to get ahead of the story too much but just to say what a vast effect it had on her and how quickly those effects kicked in. So when she'd see people in the halls of her building, it was a little like, is that them? Wait, is that them? Though eventually, her suspicions snagged on this one guy.Īct Two, "So Nice to Hear Your Voice." We now turn to somebody who had one daily routine that changed to a different daily routine. Some of the 4.7 thousand comments- "interesting how they got further from nailing it the longer they practiced." "Your neighbor's horrible playing should be a crime." "My condolences." "You'd think that the performance would at least improve over time." Someone chimes in, "Sounds like he's still shite, too." The insurance company Geico responded, "We feel your pain."įor a long time, Lindsay didn't know who the Pink Panther-er was. The internet responded like the internet. Just for scale, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue has sold 5 million copies. The video montage that Lindsay made of all this, she eventually tweeted it, and it accumulated 5.4 million views.
Just to point out, most days, this was actually her only real-life human contact- the saxophone coming through the walls.
Lindsay says this went on for weeks and weeks, several times every day.