Had enough. Get a grip people.

[WankyEntitledPeopleEverywhere]

Standing in a queue, at a perfectly reasonable distance in a very busy store, and someone just asked my dear sweet husband, who wouldn't hurt a fly to move away as if he was an actual piece of deliberately infectious rubbish. No thought to the fact they are away to sit down and eat in an atmosphere full of people, without masks on and recycled air circulating, no just be rude to my perfectly respectful man. Had enough of this rubbish. People need to get a grip of themselves and screw their heads back on.

If he is a ‘dear sweet’ man then he should have no problem moving I’d he isn’t far enough from others.

I am with you op. I’ve been shouted at numerous times since March by a certain demographic I will not mention. Don’t think I’ve ever been shouted at so much in my life even as a child. For crimes such as walking down the street accompanied by an 11 year old. In one case we were miles away from the persons front door he opened it waving a stick screaming “stay away we are in a pandemic”.

Totally with you OP. In the height of the pandemic then fair enough but these days it's just virtue signalling and deliberately manufactured outrage. We do all have to get back to normal life at some point!

Ah, the collective wrath of an outraged mumsnet. I'd forgotten how important it was to avoid that And the cynicism that a man could actually be genuinely nice, and yes dear and sweet. That is indeed very sad.

And the cynicism that a man could actually be genuinely nice, and yes dear and sweet

I don't think people were disputing his character, more querying why it was relevant to the story...

I doubt she did a full character assessment before asking. Perhaps you could make him a badge?

Your DHs personality has nothing to do with this but I do agree. People need to get a grip, they will be raising a generation scared of people getting too close (when it's not even close) ,permanently washing their hands until they bleed or sanitizing their whole body after a food shop.

@CommunistLegoBloc

I doubt she did a full character assessment before asking. Perhaps you could make him a badge?

Agree with both sides. It’s upsetting to be told off when you’re a law-abiding decent person.

But... the man was clearly a bit too close for comfort.

But... some people (and, yes, it is the unmentionable demographic) have gone potty. I was shielding (first to get the text of doom - preen) and on my first walk out I went into the road to avoid this couple, who then shouted “Thank you for protecting us!” The cheek of the pair thinking that it’s all about them.

I think if someone asked me to move I would just move out of the way and get on with my life.

Why didn’t he just move out of the way if he’s so ‘dear and sweet’?

I am neither dear nor sweet so you better all stay far away from me if you don't want covid .

OP has written a thread about someone asking her dear sweet husband to move and she's asking people to get a grip 🤣

He did move, and didn't say a word to her. The content of his character matters because if he had been an unthinking twat he would actually have been in her face and not cared a jot. But he's not, and he wasn't and she was entirely out of order, and as I said earlier the same distance from the person in front of her in the queue, but didn't think she was intruding on their space. As to the derision at the use of dear and sweet, if your husband is neither of those things to you, one would wonder why he is actually your husband

As to the derision at the use of dear and sweet, if your husband is neither of those things to you, one would wonder why he is actually your husband

Has anyone said their husbands aren't either of those things?

The content of his character

Alright calm down love, you're not Martin Luther King.

as if he was an actual piece of deliberately infectious rubbish

How exactly did she convey this?

My DP is the sweetest person in the world. That doesn't make him immune from covid though. If someone felt like he was standing too close to them it wouldn't surprise me if they told him to move.

@WankyEntitledPeopleEverywhere

He did move, and didn't say a word to her. The content of his character matters because if he had been an unthinking twat he would actually have been in her face and not cared a jot. But he's not, and he wasn't and she was entirely out of order, and as I said earlier the same distance from the person in front of her in the queue, but didn't think she was intruding on their space. As to the derision at the use of dear and sweet, if your husband is neither of those things to you, one would wonder why he is actually your husband

It doesn't matter whether he cared about invading her space or not He did it anyway... 🤷🏻‍♀️

A man hissed at me in M&S during the lockdown, wan't doing anything just in the aisle and he came in and hissed from behind his mask, I felt like running after him zombie arms outstretched...

it puts me off going out, other peoples fear..

Someone asked your husband to move back and your this offended? Think you need to take your own advice and catch yourself a grip.

*you're

No idea why you're getting a hard time here. She is clearly a knob. And I have come across a few over the past few weeks. People do need to get a grip. If she thought he was too close then she could have moved her own arse.

I do agree that people need to get a grip.

Someone was shrieking at me in Sainsbury’s for standing too close. I was standing in the queue, on the little 2 metre marker sticker on the floor and she came and stood too close to me.

My daughter got shouted at and called a selfish cunt by a random because she wasn’t wearing a mask - when she was outside, on her own, walking across a virtually empty park

I do understand people are worried and anxious, but that kind of behaviour is not ok

We were at a theme park at the weekend, a couple of times in the queues people got too close, I just politely asked them to move away

Sadly this situation has made some people think they have a given right to show some authority and use it as an excuse to be obnoxious.
As a sufferer from anxiety and agoraphobia I am too afraid to go in shops myself for this very reason. Terrified of putting a foot out of place.