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.

Who even refers to their husband as ‘dear and sweet’?

Is your "dear sweet husband" Boris - if so not unreasonable at all.

I've had people walk out into the road to avoid me walking down a wide street, when I've stood to one side to let them pass

This happens in normal times, people have no spatial awareness and/or need loads of space to pass someone - covid has just added to the issue!

However, it seems self-evident that the OP thinks there was plenty of space between her DH and the offending couple, and the offending couple thought there wasn't. As none of us were there, it's difficult to decide! Do you have CCTV footage op

YANBU OP had the same thing happen to me inside a shop instead the woman was shouting trying to humiliate me. I was just trying to get on with my food shopping and not close to her. Was completely out of order. Some people have gone ridiculous like you say!

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Some children and small fluffy animals are sweet, men are most definitely not.

What an absolutely ridiculous thing to be ‘fummin’ about. Move on, forget it.

My husband is a sweet, dear man.
I hadn’t realised this gives him immunity from Covid. I shall tell him to cast off his mask forthwith and broadcast his dear sweetness for all to see.

Not only do I not hurt flies, but I saved a spider from drowning in my bath last week. And yet when a cashier in M&S asked me to move further away from the customer in front, I wasn't outraged AND I didn't make a Mumsnet thread about it. I need to get a grip.

Of course if I had made an MN thread, I would've said it was Waitrose. And specified that I was buying a healthy and balanced meal with sufficient protein.

Had enough of this rubbish. People need to get a grip of themselves and screw their heads back on.

If only people would screw their heads on and think about SD and wearing a mask. It isn't too much to ask.

I absolutely love the juxtaposition of your language. From a 'dear, sweet man' to a complete 'twat'. You're quite the mystery op!!

I twat flies. The bluebottles give me especial pleasure, they make such a satisfying squelch.

@HeronLanyon

Ian holm would have played him surely.

Or Hugh Bonneville - he looks a dear.

Helena Bonham C as the evil move woman with Rebel Wilson as Mrs Dear Sweetman.

No, my husband is perfectly sweet, kind and respectful too. I just don't feel the need to preface each mention of him with it.

Agreed. I mean mine's exceptionally good in bed but I wouldn't feel the need to slip that into my recount of a non-event in a supermarket 😂

Some children and small fluffy animals are sweet

Bar the little brat who shrieked saved our NHS at my cousin who was shopping without a mask. She has chronic asthma and is exempt.

Yes people need to get a fucking grip. Twats.

Sorry but if he was wearing a mask and she was also, what's the problem?

YANBU OP

People have lost their minds

@hellswelshy

Sorry but if he was wearing a mask and she was also, what's the problem?

Actually, we're still meant to keep some distance, even with masks on.

Realistically, most masks are just fabric and with limited filtering capacity. They are good for keeping larger droplets from going airborne, but little else.

Even surgical masks have poor fitting and lots of potentially infected air escape from the sides.

And the OP cannot possibly know if her dear sweet husband is an infectious asymptomatic non-fly hurter.

Did your dear, sweet husband feel as incensed about all this as you do? Has he rushed to post on here/Twitter/Reddit? Or did his dear, sweetness extend to thinking, 'I'll step back. That was easy,'?
Note - only one of these responses supports a claim to sweetness and dearness.

Yes, but the op stated that he was maintaining a distance? So what else is he expected to do? People can only do their best, particularly in a busy supermarket.

Yes, but the op stated that he was maintaining a distance?

She said reasonable distance. The idea of "reasonable" may be different for the OP and for this woman.
Reasonable also implies it wasn't exactly safe. Just reasonable.
Followed by the rant about sitting to eat in recycled air, which suggests the distance wasn't that reasonable.

We need the distance in meters, please, OP.

@Rhine

Who even refers to their husband as ‘dear and sweet’?

It doesn't even make the Top Ten of words or phrases I use to refer to mine

@Morgan12

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Oh my god! Who will play your dear sweet husband in the much anticipated movie version of this gripping tale?

This really made me laugh.

OP, don't worry about it. Everyone's affected by Covid in one way or another. Clearly that woman's manners were affected rather than her physical health.

You are right OP. People are completely over reacting to being near other people.

They forget that air circulates - it doesn't matter if a person is a few inches away from your or several feet - the air exhaled from the other person will reach you anyway.

I just tell people that if they have an issue with where I am standing then they can move. I was just over a metre away from a woman in the queue earlier and she wanted me to move back. She was more than welcome to go to the back of the queue. I was wearing a mask and she bloody wasn't!

If he wasn't encroaching into her space she wouldn't have asked him to move. She clearly felt he was too close to her; that's her opinion, and yours is no more important than hers; less so in fact as it was her space he was encroaching on, not yours.