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To think i should be able to go out

179 replies

Snufflesdog · 25/03/2020 18:14

Without coming into contact with people?!

I can’t get to my car (medical trips today) without getting close to children playing in the road

And I can’t walk our dog without crossing paths with about 100 other people. In addition to all the children on the estate playing out in the road, many others are playing in their front gardens - meaning I would have to walk in the road to stay 6ft from them. Down one road there was at least 5 groups of people (who are not one family or from one household) hanging around just on the pavement having a chat and many of whole were drinking beers(!) out in the sun
There were also people filing in and out of all the local shops for ‘essential’ shopping - such as an ice cream, or a can of coke.

This is not a summer holiday!

What is so hard about these guidelines and why does no one care?!

OP posts:
Yesterdayforgotten · 26/03/2020 16:23

choli wind your neck in, you are actually hard of thinking as your mine is so closed off you are judging people you do not know about buying milk for THEIR toddler. Get a grip...next you'll be saying sanitary products arent essential either as could use another reusable household product! I honestly don't know why this situation brings people who love to get up in other people business out in full force!

musketeers123 · 26/03/2020 18:11

We are in South Devon and Dartmoor National Park waa closed (carparks + signs up to not park anywhere) as so many idiots thought it would be to ALL go there on Mothers Day !!!! Utter madness + they posted pics of 'family time' when their car is parked in a crammed car park!!! Total *wats !!! We drove a short way to a very quiet part and saw 2 people hiking in the distance. People really have to take this seriously. Police are stopping people now to ask where they are going. 1 in/out at the local shop + the Army are camped at Totnes (next phase coming in?) Be safe everyone xxx

musketeers123 · 26/03/2020 18:12

We drove on the Moors today (not Mothers Day).

Hanywany · 26/03/2020 18:15

I'm In london and no one has got the message! Everyone is behaving like idiots still going out in big groups, kids everywhere, old people everywhere no one has paid any attention to the rules and even the police don't seem to give 2 shits around here either as they haven't tried to enforce any of the rules!! I feel like I could scream watching every fucking stupid ignorant tosser walk past my house while me and my family are trying very hard to stick to the rules! Angry

choli · 26/03/2020 18:18

.next you'll be saying sanitary products arent essential
They are not.

Bringringbring12 · 26/03/2020 18:28

* I'm In london and no one has got the message! *

What part of London are you in?
Numerous posters from London day it’s dead
My family in London say it’s dead

Bringringbring12 · 26/03/2020 18:29

@ choli

.next you'll be saying sanitary products arent essential
They are not.

Thankfully the government disagrees

mumsmas1 · 26/03/2020 18:36

I despair
We are doomed

wooo69 · 26/03/2020 18:37

I’m working from home and have been going for a walk when I finish, 3 mile circular route, I pass several people and we are all keeping apart by walking in the toad or stepping into driveways to allow people to pass. Everyone is saying hello and see you tomorrow. I see most people twice because we are all doing the same route but some in the opposite direction to me. I have just driven to town (15 miles each way) and back as I had an appointment to donate blood and I got there in less than half the normal time. People definitely sticking to it here (West Yorkshire)

Rockbird · 26/03/2020 18:37

Busy Surrey market town here and my usually busy road is dead. I think I've heard two cars today and hardly any passers by. Bet they still won't have any bloody loo roll in the local shop though... Wink

Knittingsavesme · 26/03/2020 18:43

Out in droves here! What do people not understand! I took my dog on a public/football field near me today. Not often anybody else there when I go. Today two females and a male, looked in their early twenties. The male had a bloody air gun in full view over his shoulder. They did keep their distance but, when they were quite a way away, I saw him turn round and look at us. I walked at pace to get away from there as I was scared he’d shoot my dog! Wtf? On the way home a woman came over to pet my dog! I feel like I’m living in a parallel universe This is not a ‘bad’ area either.

Knittingsavesme · 26/03/2020 18:46

Also, an Argos delivery van went past me with three men in the front. No social distancing there. A large house has been taken down and three ‘luxury, hi spec’ houses are being built on the plot. A whole team of workers on the job there. Beggars belief.

Knittingsavesme · 26/03/2020 18:49

For balance, I must add that some people were crossing the road to avoid others, me included. We very nicely shouted ‘thank you’ to each other Smile

Lincolnfield · 26/03/2020 18:51

We took our one exercise session today by walking up the road to our local park with our dogs. We took their ‘chucking’ toys so they got a good run around on the fields and we could see where other people were so as to keep well away from them.

After they’d had a run and chase with their toys, I even put my youngest dog on his lead because he’s very social and I didn’t want him running to other people’s dogs to play so that we could keep well away from people.

We saw, variously, one couple sitting on the cricket pavilion steps sunbathing, a group of three ladies sitting together under a tree, two young mothers together with three children having a picnic on the grass and two young men with four children between them having a lovely (sarcastic) bike ride around the park.

What part of out for exercise and then go home do people not understand?

I’m beyond angry. It’s precisely this kind of behaviour which will lead to more draconian measures and stop even those of us who are trying to comply from going out at all.

FunkyKingston · 26/03/2020 18:53

between them having a lovely (sarcastic) bike ride around the park.

How do you ride a bike sarcastically?

Lincolnfield · 26/03/2020 19:06

@FunkyKingston - I meant the ‘lovely’ obviously!

There is a ray of hope though. It’s going to be bitterly cold again on the weekend so the picnic/sitting on the grass/sunbathing brigade will go back to what they do best - stopping in their houses and watching crap on TV while those of us who have always gone out every day with our dogs might get some peace.

Lou12124 · 26/03/2020 19:18

Christ self isolation does not mean you cant go out in your front or back gardens. Its ESSENTIAL for peoples well being (especially kids- I have 3) to be outdoors if you have a garden instead of in watching tv. Theres only so many stories you can read to kids a day or drawing, painting you can do. I dont see the issue with being in your garden OP? If it's that much of a problem to you then don't go out yourself? Let the dog in the garden. You are basically moaning about people when you're doing the same yourself...going outside! Why not walk your dog later on in the day or earlier morning so you avoid these peasants outside! 🙄

mumda · 26/03/2020 19:23

I haven't been out so I don't know.

wineandtoastfortea · 26/03/2020 19:26

Thing is, for those saying ‘my neighbours who have never exercised before’ etc. How do you know that they didn’t go to the gym every lunch hour, aerobics every Tuesday night, golf club on a Sunday? You don’t know peoples situations! As long as people are sticking to the advice of exercise once a day then stop judging and maybe take up your own hobby during this time?

alloutoffucks · 26/03/2020 19:27

@lou depends on the size of your garden. If you are coughing some gardens are too small to go out in.

Hanywany · 26/03/2020 19:28

Bringringbring12 I'm in tottenham and it's not dead let me tell you now it's a hive of activity!

Darbs76 · 26/03/2020 19:31

That’s awful. My street is quiet. No children playing out but they don’t anyway. No way I’d let my kids out to play. Are people crazy?

Duchessofblandings · 26/03/2020 19:31

Elderly relatives in Kingston (on Thames) are too afraid to go out because of the number of people in the town.

PlentyOfBiscuitsWithTea · 26/03/2020 19:38

I think this is really tough. I live in a small but busy town. I last took the kids outside the house on Sunday, again today. It’s impossible not to pass people. There are FAR FAR fewer people out and about, and where possible everyone is staying apart from other people. But it’s simply impossible to do and people are walking past each other closer than 2m. There simply isn’t enough outdoor space/hours in the day to space everyone out so this doesn’t happen. So what to do? Stay indoors? For all of our mental health this is impossible too.
Having said that - people are being d!cks and not distancing. But some of us are really trying but to do it militantly I’m finding impossible.

toxic44 · 26/03/2020 19:51

That word 'essential' is throwing people, I think. 'Basics' would have been more correct because essential is a very subjective thing. To some, it's a newspaper, to others it's cigarettes, to others again it's tomatoes and so on. I can't understand why it's 'wrong' to buy a frivolity or a luxury food when I'm in the shop in any case. I'm staying in, working in the garden and wondering if it's allowed to go for a short drive provided I don't get out of the vehicle or stop to talk to anyone.