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.

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!

Why be such an aggressive / sarcastic dick? People have to shop and shouldn’t have to encounter people or attitudes like yours

I adhere to the Canadian advice - keep the distance of one caribou between you and another. . .and the NZ advice, keep two sheep between yah. . .

I adhere to my personal measure of imagini g tall 6’+ hunk laid out flat on the floor

@Aridane

I adhere to the Canadian advice - keep the distance of one caribou between you and another. . .and the NZ advice, keep two sheep between yah. . .

I adhere to my personal measure of imagini g tall 6’+ hunk laid out flat on the floor

That might not inspire me to keep away 😃

Someone asking you to move is such a tiny thing it’s amazing you would even remember it five minutes later.

Maybe she was rude and maybe she wasn’t. We have no way of knowing why the OP’s DH made her feel uncomfortable or what her personal circumstances are.

‘someone just asked my dear, red-headed husband, who studied French at A Level, to move away as if he was an actual piece of deliberately infectious rubbish’

This just made me laugh out loud.

He did move, and didn't say a word to her

And so the problem is?

@WankyEntitledPeopleEverywhere

My husband was not being unreasonable, and he is sweet and kind, a very nice person, and I will never stop saying that, or being glad every day that he is. If that is food for derision then so be it, but actually that says much more about the world than it ever could about him. Or about me for thinking it and saying it. I hope all those women currently bringing their sons up to be decent men and husbands realise that this is what the world will make of them. But of course, as long as its someone else being made fun of its OK, isn't it?

I would hope his future wife doesn't think her husband being a decent person, which should be the minimum requirement for a husband, someone makes him immune from spreading germs or making someone else feel uncomfortable. Nor that him being a decent person is something that needs to be mentioned at every mention of him because it's so rare.

I was wearing a mask and she bloody wasn't!

Maybe she was one of those people who can't?

But, surely, you'd want to stay at a safe distance from anyone not wearing masks, not standing your ground close to them. Your behaviour was odd.

Whether she was right or wrong to say anything, the very act of talking probably put you guys at risk and her if he spoke back. Covid comes from a the throat etc so really none of us should be talking too others out and about!!

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.

If you are infected, the number of particles that someone else is likely to get is less with distance. The closer they are, the more likely that they will get enough particles to become infected.

If someone can’t wear a mask I would expect them to be especially vigilant about staying a good distance away from other people.

This is a shocking example of MN bitchiness - absolutely appalling responses to OP.

I'm with you OP - go and have a look at the AD thread - much more reasonable level headed MNeters over there.

Oh come on. Ranting and raving about how your husband was treated like a piece of repellent garbage just because he was asked to move slightly is the exact polar opposite of reasonable and level headed.

I honestly don’t know how some of you get through the day if you turn every single comment or perceived slight into some big huge personal attack on the grounds that strangers should just psychically know that you’re the spiritual love child of Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa.

@Chewbecca

I am neither dear nor sweet. What should I do?

does that mean you are a cheap t...

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@JMAngel1

This is a shocking example of MN bitchiness - absolutely appalling responses to OP.

I'm with you OP - go and have a look at the AD thread - much more reasonable level headed MNeters over there.

This is a shocking example of socially ingrained sexism, using such a misogynistic term for women.

Maybe YOU should head over to FWR and learn to use none sexist terms/language.

P.s. Get over yourself.

I suspect that the lady in question needed the full 2m to accommodate her parasol and bustle given that this tableau seems to have occurred in Ye Olde Aldi circa 1804, judging from OP's telling. I can just picture her swooning at Mr Sweetman's dearness, then colouring indignantly as wenchy Mistress Movealong casts doubt on her beloved's integrity.

Honestly, why so nasty? What does it achieve?

@LillianBland

Jesus wept, we can't use the term bitchiness now.

You get over yourself.

I adhere to my personal measure of imagini g tall 6’+ hunk laid out flat on the floor

I imagine approximately 10 cheeseburgers in a line Bacon cheeseburgers.

@WankyEntitledPeopleEverywhere i think it's rude to tell people to 'get a grip' in your OP and title. Why so nasty?

[quote JMAngel1]@LillianBland

Jesus wept, we can't use the term bitchiness now.

You get over yourself.[/quote]
Please stop being so blasphemous.

After you’ve nipped over to FWR, you might want to go over to philosophy/religion and apologise.

😁

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

I adhere to my personal measure of imagini g tall 6’+ hunk laid out flat on the floor

I imagine approximately 10 cheeseburgers in a line Bacon cheeseburgers.

I’m picturing eight bottles of wine, lying on their side.

Mind you, after that, I’d be lying on my back.

I agree op. I've seen some strange behaviour from people. I'm sick of it. The way people think everyone has this virus, i walked around the corner the other day and a man dived out the way! Had to laugh to myself though.

I agree tbh. OP states in her OP that he was standing a perfectly reasonable distance away, why are some posters just assuming that she's lying or exaggerating? It's a fact that coronavirus has brought out the worst in a lot of people.

I personally suspect these posters just don't like that you said something nice about your dh.

Oh what complete nonsense. The OP’s husband’s personality is completely irrelevant, and it’s frankly weird to expect a total stranger to base her comfort level on her psychic ability to discern whether a passer-by is a nice person or not.

The bottom line is the husband made the woman feel uncomfortable, so she asked him to move. Asking someone to move slightly is not an unreasonable or onerous request. Surely any “nice” man wouldn’t want to make a strange woman uncomfortable?

Only a very entitled and peculiar person goes through life examining every fleeting interaction with strangers for snubs so they can feel offended.