COVID cringe memories (light hearted)

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Looking back at the pandemic, especially at its height in 2020, what made your toes curl?

1. "Imagine". Enough said.
2. The Marsh family.
3. On the local news, footage was shown of the Thursday clap (may or June). There was a parade of bhangra drummers and smarmy bratty kids doing the irritating floss dance. Was that point the 'applause' was seen as having had it's day.

I know some people may mention the dancing nurses, I only saw tiny clips on the news. Even that made me cringe.

The checking people (Mitel) coming to my door to check my daughter was isolating at 6.30am. I think this was following a "ping" I don't remember. She was in bed. They demanded I got her up so they could see her. I refused and shut the door on them. They came again the next day and I did the same. Then I spent about 3 months scared I was going to be arrested. 😂

All of it.
When you could go to restaurants but had to wear a mask until you got to your table, then you took it off ate your food, put it back on to walk out 🤯
It's was all bollocks and a waste of time.

That I couldn't go into my neighbour's house but could sit with them in the pub. The whole thing was nuts

Taking my kids on a 300 mile round trip to visit my elderly parents in their garden and making them all wee in the garden so we didn't enter the house. My son attempted a game of socially distanced tennis with his grandad but when one of them missed the ball they didn't know if they should pick the ball up and so the game was abandoned and we went back to attempting to talk from socially distanced chairs which we covered in dettol

The clapping ( didn't do it and it pissed me off as I was attempting to get toddler DS to sleep!)

Some jumped up arse yelling at me in the middle of Sainsburys as the wine in my basket wasn't essential ( it fucking was after 3 months being stuck in the house with said toddler!!)

Highly pointless bits of cloth around folks mouths but not noses aka muzzles ,some old man asked me rudly where mine was, I burst into tears and informed him I couldn't wear one as I was gang raped when I was 15 with my mouth covered and couldnt deal with it.. and his was doing fuck all as it wasn't actually wearing it properly and he xame a damp sight closer to me to bollock me than he would have minding his own fecmin business.

End of rant.

People lost their fucking minds!

Chaining benches up. Just seemed so joy sucking and designed to penalise old, young and disabled people. And wtf is the difference between walking around the bench in circles (apparently permitted for an hour even by those who thought that Gove saying something made it law), and sitting on the fucking thing for the same amount of time? Surely even in the fearful early days anyone could have realised that was bollocks?

I liked the Marsh family videos but I'd been using in Marsh's primary school aged song resources for years so knew of them.

Also the clapping, we used to perform a song on our doorstep during the clap and it gave us a focus (dd and ds are autistic and both were studying performing arts so it gave them a focus when everything else they loved wasn't there any more)

People meeting up for a walk, and duly keeping 2m apart whilst walking abreast on a path and shouting across at each other. Meanwhile everyone else had to walk inbetween them.

Also I had one of those 'Stay the fuck at home' frames on Facebook. I got a bit carried away for a time. Had successfully scoured it from my mind until PP mentioned the frames up thread.

Trying to get ds2 to help me piece together the downloadable scrubs pattern by telling him he should do it so that when he was older and his grandchildren asked him what he did in the covid pandemic he would be able to say he had helped.
I am even cringing slightly at the fact I was sewing scrubs even though I am sure they were genuinely needed.

Pretending that ds's girlfriend was my daughter so that she could come to an outdoor concert and a theatre trip with us.

I’m sure this wasn’t funny at the time @Marleymoo42, but it really made me laugh!

I was working for Tesco and always remember when we got our delivery of arrows to put on the floor. The dismay from the staff was unanimous because we knew people wouldn't follow them and equally some people would start screaming blue murder at the ones that didn't 🤦‍♀️

Looking back now it's funny that we thought arrows could keep us safe.

The clapping - the expectation/policing of this.
The mask wearing
The lines on the floor in the supermarkets/shops - and the over zealous policing of it
Just the bizarre way people became so obsessed with what other were doing but they themselves just broke the rules but in a way that was"ok"!!

Our dog walker used to wipe down the dogs.

This place was utterly bonkers, in the Feb there were posters who were going off abroad on their jollies when it was apparent to anyone watching the news that it wasn't a good idea

Yet 6 months later the same posters were berating others for going out for walks twice a day and going to the shop to buy milk

All the freaking out about Neighbour X going on a walk with too many people, or Friend Y meeting up with their boyfriend for a run even though they didn’t live with them and all sorts of other bullshit that in the grand scheme of things were irrelevant whilst the government laughed at us behind our backs.

Oh and standing in a supermarket queue and having someone show a ‘key worker’ badge and go to the front.

two burly men guarding the ‘NHS only’ part of the supermarket which was stocked with hard-to-find basics.

creepy.

Queuing for an early trip to the supermarket
Clapping on a Thursday night
Posting on social media about a daily walk
Being scared that you would be reported to the police for breaking a bubble

The clapping - and I worked for the NHS the whole way through lockdown.
Cringy tik tok dancing.
Wiping the shopping with anti bac
Parking a few streets away and creeping into my parents garden like a criminal.
The mask wearing.
Only being able to walk one way around the supermarket.
The 2m space gap when in a queue, which then changed to 1m.

Clapping.

Not being allowed tea or coffee in work, apparently these were NHS guidelines and not some penny pinching measure from my (ex)arsehole boss who also cut staff hours in half ....twat.

Omg yes! Showing an nhs badge to get to the front of the supermarket queue. Never did it because it seemed fucking ridiculous then mind you. But there were all sorts of admin staff etc. flashing their badges for all that it was worth despite never having seen a patient!

Did the Mumsnet "cheese in coffee" post really happen? I see it referenced a lot but I never saw it. Much like I've never seen the fabled "spa day" and "chicken that lasts a month" posts in reality either (just people taking the piss). We sometimes hear about the "give them your house" post but I tracked it down once and in context, it was clear that the poster was being sarcastic to make a point about the cost of house repairs.

Did someone genuinely suggest using cheese in coffee to prevent having to buy milk? And were people really accused of being murderers for going out to buy chocolate?

Soz 😄

I work in a special school. I had to be in a building every day with 150 children and staff, but could only meet up to 6 people in my back garden sitting 2m apart.

Eat out to help out...WTAF?!

And having a "substantial meal" (aka a scotch egg/pork pie/a piece of sushi) at a pre booked table pub, else you weren't allowed to have a drink.