Page 16 | What we're the most bizarre/memorable moments of the pandemic for you?

Jaggerdagger · 2022-03-11T07:09:28+00:00

Just wondering what they are for you? I'll start. One of mine was seeing a children's playground cordoned off with tape, including all the park benches.

Saucery · 11/03/2022 17:00

When the school closure was announced and just checking the staff WhatsApp for info. We had things set up the next 48hrs but our SLT were as in the dark as the rest of us at first.

The walks where everyone crossed over, but there was more camaraderie walking round the local area than usual. Just about everyone smiling and saying hello as we passed. Seeing the rainbows start to pop up in windows and front gardens - still brings a lump to my throat now. There was a Teddy Bear Spotting trail too, so I dusted off my Bear and stuck in him the front window, sometimes seeing children stop and point at him was wonderful

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 11/03/2022 17:00

I was shamed on my local facebook page for not being out clapping at 8pm on a Thursday. Like, pictures of my house were shared, car reg clearly showing, house number showing etc. It's only a smallish town too.

First couple of times, I had in fact been out in the back garden as didn't want the front door open as this would have disturbed DS more and DH was at work so standing out front felt a bit daft. Gave up all together after I had abuse thrown at me in the supermarket carpark.

notacooldad · 11/03/2022 17:05

A local bloke who is in his 70s hiding in a bush in our street. If anyone walked past that didn’t live here he jumped out with his hand out indicating for them to stop and telling them they can’t be there. He got told to fuck off more than once. He is not some aged man struggling but still runs his own business but is a well known busy body always putting complaints into the council about the most ludicrous things!

PinkSparklyPussyCat · 11/03/2022 17:05

DH worrying about getting a takeaway. I told him that if he didn't want one then fine, but I was having one. He soon came to his senses!

Being told on here that I shouldn't leave the house as I have a persistent cough (allergies) and I might frighten people.

Being told if I loved DH I'd wear a mask indoors to protect him.

Seeing a post on here recommending confining a covid patient to one room and sealing the door with duct tape while using a hepa filter.

Being called a bit thick and an idiot for saying DH had bought me chocolate when he went to the corner shop for milk, which also wasn't essential.

notacooldad · 11/03/2022 17:06

I was shamed on my local facebook page for not being out clapping at 8pm on a Thursday. Like, pictures of my house were shared, car reg clearly showing, house number showing etc. It's only a smallish town too

First couple of times, I had in fact been out in the back garden as didn't want the front door open as this would have disturbed DS more and DH was at work so standing out front felt a bit daft. Gave up all together after I had abuse thrown at me in the supermarket carpark.

Absolutely disgraceful. How do your neighbours treat you now?

Butteryflakycrust83 · 11/03/2022 17:08

@ImplementingTheDennisSystem

Driving into a national park (where I live), and down a long track to a tiny carpark which marks the start of a lesser known walk, and finding a police car there turning people away.

Wearing an empty backpack every time we left the house at the height of the first lockdown, to enable me and DH to go for multiple walks a day so that, if questioned, we could pretend we were heading to the shops for essentials.

Joggers and cyclists being told by obese people, via hysterical social media posts, to stay at home, 'keep safe' and 'do your bit for the NHS'.

What a dick comment

Junobug · 11/03/2022 17:13

Walking to the post office, I had my 6 year old on her bike. As she went up a hill she wobbled. A passer by went to catch her but then suddenly stopped, backed off and said, "Sorry. Covid," so she fell off.
It made me realise how low we had sunk as a society that someone didn't help a child, in fear of catching a virus.

Butteryflakycrust83 · 11/03/2022 17:14

@ImplementingTheDennisSystem

Driving into a national park (where I live), and down a long track to a tiny carpark which marks the start of a lesser known walk, and finding a police car there turning people away.

Wearing an empty backpack every time we left the house at the height of the first lockdown, to enable me and DH to go for multiple walks a day so that, if questioned, we could pretend we were heading to the shops for essentials.

Joggers and cyclists being told by obese people, via hysterical social media posts, to stay at home, 'keep safe' and 'do your bit for the NHS'.

What a nasty comment.

Hasselhoffsheadband · 11/03/2022 17:15

Only seeing 'furlough' written down rather than spoken for a few days, and assuming it was said 'fur-luff'.

The MN poster who said that people shouldn't be having BBQs during the glorious lockdpwn weather as it was disrespectful and people should be keeping 'an air of sombreness'.

The Derbyshire Police 'Not Essential' drone video power trip.

THisbackwithavengeance · 11/03/2022 17:16

Accidentally walking within a 2m perimeter of another pedestrian to avoid being mown down by a car and getting screamed at in case I had given her covid.

Walking with DS1 on our local high street one evening. No cars. No people. It was grey and misty and there was complete silence. All pubs and takeaways and shops closed. Like a scene from a zombie apocalypse film. We hurried home.

The whole thing was complete madness.

CirreltheSquirrel · 11/03/2022 17:19

Driving on small roads in the north Pennines at 3am in a bid to enter Scotland illegally...

For background, my dad lives alone abroad on a popular holiday island. I hadn't visited all year but it got to the point where I really needed to get out to see him as he was struggling with a few things. I booked flights for November 2020 and a couple of days later the November lockdown was announced. Because I take charter flights to get there, it didn't matter that my reason for travel was arguably ok, if the flight was cancelled I couldn't be on it.

But for the first week or so of that lockdown the rules in Scotland were different, and the flights were running. It was just illegal to travel to Scotland without a good reason. I decided my reason was good enough and booked a 7am flight from Glasgow. I didn't want to/couldn't stay in an airport hotel so we had a 4 hour drive up there overnight.

The main road was closed so we were diverted across stupidly small roads in the middle of nowhere. In the fog. It made it feel even more like we were trying to evade the law.

I've never been so relieved to make it onto a plane!

BitterTits · 11/03/2022 17:19

Being treated as public enemy number 1 on Mumsnet and made to work in a classroom with no consideration for my safety. It wasn't until then that I realised I truly don't matter at all to anyone except my closest family. The contempt was soul destroying and has really impacted on my ability to care about anyone or anything outside my home.

PuppyMonkey · 11/03/2022 17:24

Oh yes Derbyshire police stopped my sister while out walking in the Peak District. But that’s because she actually lives in the Peak District and was walking 50 yards from her home, taking her dogs for a wee.

She said she could tell they thought she was fibbing but they reluctantly gave her the benefit of the doubt and she started taking proof of address details out with her in case it happened again.

notacooldad · 11/03/2022 17:24

We are still doing ridiculous things at work because of covid. Our authority is just extending some of the nonsense practices that would not made an ounce of difference to prevent covid

THisbackwithavengeance · 11/03/2022 17:25

I live in an area which i would say is mainly populated by white people. We had people taking photos of any non white people who were out and about, putting them on local FB groups as they were clearly not from round here, saying they'd called the police etc. This was in the summer when restrictions had eased.

I called them out every single time and got accused of being a murderer, covidiot etc. Some people really showed their true colours during the pandemic. Frightening stuff.

RosesAndHellebores · 11/03/2022 17:25

I am so glad people stayed normal and civil where I live. Nobody went out and clapped for the NHS despite in our small road of 9 houses there are a pharmacist, a dentist and a surgeon. To be fair those were the houses who had visitors every weekend too and paid no attention to the lockdown rules!

TheNeverEndingIllness · 11/03/2022 17:28

Collecting hampers of food from DDs school and her not being allowed in, the HT waving at her through the window masked up

DDs first day back at school after 1st lockdown she asked who all the people in masks where (her teachers!)

Falling out with my entire family due to opposing views on Covid, only just starting to talk to me again.

Oceancreature · 11/03/2022 17:31

Teaching my son to read whilst schools were closed. We had ‘mummy nursery’ for an hour at the kitchen table each day.

PoseyFlump · 11/03/2022 17:33

My vet reaching out and stroking my arm after she PTS our dog in the boot of our car.

KateMcCallister · 11/03/2022 17:34

@Hollytreenew

Mine was walking by a local conference centre/theatre that has been turned into a covid testing centre on the car park. Walking by one evening with the big lights, tents, fences and generators in what was once a place of joy seemed very surreal. Felt like I was in a film. This was probably in the January lockdown last year.

Are you in the NW?

Readyforspring · 11/03/2022 17:35

All the 'non essential' police on here. Telling people that certain things weren't essential, just because to them it wasnt.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 11/03/2022 17:37

@PoseyFlump

My vet reaching out and stroking my arm after she PTS our dog in the boot of our car.

You have just reminded me. I had to have some invasive and quite scary tests done in hospital. DH wasn't allowed to come in with me even though I'm a wheelchair user. I had the loveliest nurse with me and trying to get from the wheelchair to the bed when she wasn't allowed to touch me I just burst into tears.

She exclaimed" oh sod bloody covid" threw her arms around me and stroked my hair until I had stopped crying.

I will never forget that contact and kindness during a time we weren't even allowed to shake hands.

LaQuern · 11/03/2022 17:37

Crying in Aldi when I finally found flour.

Smokeahontas · 11/03/2022 17:43

Having a clandestine meeting with my friend, she’s a social worker, to give her latex gloves & masks I had found in my garage as they hadn’t been supplied with any. In a quiet car park off a main road, in case either of us got a bollocking from police. Me setting the bag into her boot to avoid unnecessary contact.

Jesus fucking Christ.

BOOTS52 · 11/03/2022 17:44

2 women given a fine for been out in public walking together at a beach but it was okay for our government here in Ireland to have a big social golf get together while people could not visit loved ones dying in hospital and waving through windows to their parents in care homes but politicans doing as they pleased on the day of lockdown.

Has to be the Loo Roll and women physically fighting over a loo roll packed think it was in the uk.

Could not even buy one hand soap while I saw one woman with a box with around 10 handsoaps in it, people got so selfish and stocked up before there were limits and not everyone could even buy one product.
In Italy people really had a tough lockdown and remember when they did all that beautiful singing on their balconies which was just beautiful and they could not even leave their apartment without papers to go to the supermarket.