To tell you about the muppets I've seen

[EverdeRose]

Due to an increasing amount of time stuck inside or queuing for milk and bread I thought I'd share some of the idiots I've seen since lockdown started.

Man walking his dog in a gas mask, dog had a face mask on too.

Family of 6 shopping in asda, all had a trolley to comply with the 1 trolley 1 person rule.

Woman in asda spraying dettol on loose carrots before she packed them.

What else have we seen?

I like your thread op. The first few posts made me laugh out loud and it surprised me that it felt like I hadn’t giggled properly for a few days.

Unfortunately it all went wrong
Mumsnet has always been great at these kind of threads people just laughing at the ridiculousness of ourselves and others. British people love a good piss take- but if light relief with humour.

ATM though, people are just to wound up and quite ferocious- good effort though

@beer couldn't agree more. that is how I took the thread too but I've managed to get into a debate somehow about whether or not dogs should wear face masks. maybe that's enough mumsnet for one day lol!

What a nasty thread and how disgusting to shame people attempting to use this time to do some sort of outside activity for their own wellbeing.

Most people exercise by proxy, shopping, traveling to from work/relatives, so naturally with just one hour they will use it to do exercise.

Truly OP, just why?

so even if a cat has detected levels of the virus it is still unfair to put a mask on an animal ffs
I didn’t mean that I was just asking the question

I’m disabled, have been self isolating and have missed all of this. I need some stories of how silly we humans can be. Light hearted imo....

@Redred9
Thumbs up to you.
Your post could be applied to most threads recently.

I overlook a field and I'm enjoying watching all the people who seem to think the 1 hour of exercise is mandatory.
The amount of people I've seen riding bikes or running who have obviously never done it before, I think I watched one woman fall off her massively oversized bike 10 times, she was wearing the amazing get up of a child's helmet, a pain of shin pads and flip flops

And, of course, the fair-weather exercisers. All of those families that were desperate to get out in the free air during the week are now huddled indoors without even a window open (probably) as the weather has changed (hail and some snow here, and a bugger of a wind).

A local farmer has, through the goodness of his heart allowed walkers with or without dogs to take a direst route through one of his fields, as long as they keep to the obvious flattened-earth path. For almost 40 years, I have enjoyed this privilege, and others for longer before me, as his dad allowed the same.

Yesterday, after 4 DAYS of "lockdown" he has had to put up a notice banning people from the field. The number of kids running riot through it (and not checked by their parents), and apparently even groups of lads playing football it is causing so much damage to his young corn that he's rescinded his permission. (Whether they take any notice or not is another matter.)

Sadly, I wouldn't be surprised if he left the notices up after all of this is over.

People may mistakenly think the corn is grass, but it is obviously a private field, part of a farm, and even if they thought the courtesy path was a right of way (it isn't!), they should have stuck to the path.

*direct route, not direst

I do find the tone of the OP rude and snobbish. None of what @EverdeRose reports is anywhere near the crazy things I guess most of us have seen!

Seems to me OP that very few on this thread want to be lighthearted, they just want to complain in a nasty way about perceived nastiness . I'd have thought that if there's any time to have a sense of humour , that time is now.

I agree OP - don't me started on the families out shopping, and before you all pile on about single mums, I am talking about families as such: both parents off work with kids, parent and teens (old enough to be left alone). They have to go in "as one" because no-one can tell them NO, therefore filling up the stores unnecessarily.

Saw one kid lying on the supermarket floor licking it, then picked up an apple, licked it and put it back. Mother saw this happen and walked away. I had to tell a member of staff and they said they would have to remove the entire tray.

Also saw one kid picking its nose and then playing with Calpol bottles as mummy and daddy loaded up on kids meds.

Yesterday someone I know set off on a bike in EXACTLY the get up the OP is talking about, and she never rides bike, its the flip flops I can't understand. However, she is the most judgemental person you could wish to meet always sneering at everyone else so hey, if it was her, karma and all that. (Are you in the South East OP?!)

For those who want a little light relief, despite the fun sponges, google the Ladybird book for Covid-19
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/The_Ladybird_Book_of_COVID-19.pdf

The OP has gone

Probably sitting at her kitchen window sneering at joggers run by

A queue of people across a wide pavement, for a take away cafe. No shops either side open. They were all queuing roughly a metre apart, forcing all the people walking along the pavement to walk in the road, or squeeze through. Why not queue along the pavement?

@AutumnRose1 surely you weren't suggesting shops should stop selling coffee, were you? That would swiftly lead to murder in our house

Tootle if a staff member has had hot coffee thrown at them, yes, I expect that supermarket to stop selling hot drinks.

I appreciate they couldn’t anticipate that, but now it’s happened....

People being cheeky fuckers is always amusing.

People exercising the 'wrong' way, or taking unusual measures to protect themselves out of anxiety, not amusing.

Seems to me OP that very few on this thread want to be lighthearted, they just want to complain in a nasty way about perceived nastiness . I'd have thought that if there's any time to have a sense of humour , that time is now.

I'm not sure OP started the thread with the best of intentions. Yes it's good to have a sense of humour, but only a certain type of person correlates that with laughing at other people and feeling a sense of superiority.

I didn't see it but 2 friends posted on facebook yesterday that there was a guy in a boiler suit, gas mask, and gardening gloves walking along the high street yesterday shouting "I ain't taking no chances you get me!"

Well, there was the bloke I was serving at work who licked his fingers before handing over his money, the guy who handed me a fiver after putting it in his mouth, the people I see coughing without covering their mouths and my housemate who never washes his damned hands. These things all piss me off at the best of times without throwing 'The Dreaded Lurgy' into the mix. Please people, just stop being gross.

When I went for my walk yesterday, I saw a toddler in what looked like a red boiler suit. Not sure if it’s a fashion!

Sapphire that is so gross. I’d have refused to serve him I think. Thank you for working.

Re. Dog in a mask. Perhaps the man heard the same program on R4 as me the other evening that confirmed that dogs can get Coronavirus.

I saw a dog wearing a mask and surgical scrubs. All the other dogs were laughing at them from a distance of 2m because they knew it wasn't halloween. The dog shrugged and looked up at its human and all the dogs realised some dogs are cursed with stupid humans.

@EverdeRose your post really made me laugh thank you.

I think if people don't want to read about people doing funny things they should not read a thread about Muppets!