As always, I am ahead of the curve. For years it has been my practice at large family gatherings to massively overeat before retiring to the floor, where I will lay on my back until my grossly distended tummy is less grossly distended.
Apparently, the TikTok kids have only just discovered this.
From the New York Times.
As a child, Josh Patner became accustomed to stepping over his mom, who used to lie down in the kitchen whenever her mother-in-law would call.
“My grandmother would talk her ear off,” Mr. Patner, 61, recalled. To cope, his mother would “lie on the floor and hold the phone away from her head.” Mr. Patner’s father, also a fan of the floor, took a 20-minute nap under the family’s piano each night after work.
So it is unsurprising, perhaps, that Mr. Patner enjoys floor time at his home in Brooklyn or even at his friend’s places — in part to stretch and soothe his back (he has scoliosis), but also, he says, because it feels calming.
“If I know you well enough to sit on your couch, I know you well enough to lie on your floor,” he said.
While this is nothing new to Mr. Patner, others are just now catching on to the practice: Posts with the hashtag #floortime have garnered millions of views on TikTok.
Next, my Hawaiian shirts will come back.
