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Collected Item: “Quarantine Roller Coaster Created at Home”

Give your story a title.

Quarantine Roller Coaster Created at Home

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

video

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

People are quite bored being stuck at home month after month. This person created a roller coaster by holding a wine corkscrew up to a video of roller coaster tracks. The arms used to open the wine bottle, flew up on the downhills. People are so creative!

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

rollercoaster, quarantine, virtual, corkscrew, humor

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://twitter.com/SamfletcherEsq/status/1046834179017756672 and https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8ind5nqT6/

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Sam Fletcher originally on Twitter 1 Oct 2018, and Upworthy on Instagram,added quarantine caption on June 28, 2020

Give this story a date.

2020-06-28
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