I was lucky to have cool roommates when the lockdown hit.
We had a span of a few months where we literally could go nowhere, and were totally homebound.
If I had been trapped with another group of guys, it might have been torturous, but we managed to make the most of it. It helped that we were all really into smoking weed and watching movies, because that was about all we could do. I had the idea to set up a makeshift movie screen in the backyard, so we could smoke and watch movies under the stars. When it got cold, we dragged the old space heater outside and used it as a footrest, but when it got too hot there was little we could do. First of all we didn’t have a small air conditioner, and even if we did, sitting it outside probably wouldn’t make much difference to the heat and humidity. Also, there is a huge difference that I have seen in the volume levels of heaters as opposed to cooling units. A space heater might hum a little bit, but it will never be loud enough to drown out a movie. Can you imagine one of those hotel sized air conditioners roaring away while we were trying to watch a movie? Even if it worked at cooling us off, we wouldn’t be able to hear anything else. Alas, outdoor movie nights only happen when it gets cold, and the rest of the time we stay in the boring old living room with the central air conditioning.