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To tell you about the muppets I've seen

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EverdeRose · 29/03/2020 10:03

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?

OP posts:
BogRollBOGOF · 29/03/2020 22:20

My Covidiots were last weekend before the rules tightened, but group socialising was already being strongly discouraged. I was running one of my regular rural routes, mostly public footpaths, but on the mile long stretch of straight NSL road that is tricky to avoid to join the route up. In a layby is a parked car, with 3 young adult Covidiots playing a game of football in the road. Most vehicles easily do 40+ mph along there, and every minute or two they had to keep grabbing the ball and ducking into the layby to avoid passing vehicles. Covid 19 was clearly the least of their worries for imminent health risk!

1Morewineplease · 29/03/2020 22:48

Really sorry OP that your obviously lighthearted thread got derailed by so many sanctimonious misery guts.
Loved the dog in a face mask though.

misskick · 29/03/2020 23:12

A man dressed in a sheep costume, had a hat with ears the lot just casually walking his dog down the road.

Yester · 29/03/2020 23:18

The bigger worry are people being overweight and unfit. That will.cause far more problems to the NHS than people falling off bikes.

silversquid · 30/03/2020 01:16

My BIL works in a hotel that shut down 1 week ago. He told me that the manager spent most of Sunday morning (yesterday) answering calls from people wondering if they were doing a carvery.

Kokeshi123 · 30/03/2020 01:22

People normally get movement and outdoor time in the course of their everyday lives. If they are only allowed out the house once a day, of course they are doing to try and pack in one hour of intensive exercise. Good for them, otherwise we are going to see a big rise in things like blood pressure problems and the like after this is over.

Wearing a gas mask IS kind of bonkers though.

Kokeshi123 · 30/03/2020 01:28

Between this thread mocking people for exercising and the other thread mocking people for trying to bake or try growing veg....what exactly can we do during lockdown?

Well, drinking is wrong, gardening is wrong, DIY is wrong, online shopping is wrong.

I guess we could all lock ourselves in the cellar for six months and ritually flog ourselves while chating Hail Marys for the NHS?

Cantbelieveit101 · 30/03/2020 01:40

I was out walking, a couple were walking towards us, we moved off the path so they could have it, she then put up her umbrella and pointed it at me......

I actually laughed and told her she was mad.

MinkowskisButterfly · 30/03/2020 01:49

Guy walking his dog, he had a face mask which he was wearing under his chin so he could smoke.

flippityflobberty · 30/03/2020 08:26

Whilst I wouldn't go so far as one person per family, I am curious how larger families do their weekly shop. My tribe eat so much (I have 4dc plus DH working at home) and we would really struggle with the shopping rules that the UK has in place.

I would hate to go out more than once a week either

Mrsfrumble · 30/03/2020 08:29

.what exactly can we do during lockdown?

Start petty, mean-spirited threads on mumsnet? Grin

DishingOutDone · 30/03/2020 14:26

He told me that the manager spent most of Sunday morning (yesterday) answering calls from people wondering if they were doing a carvery

God. Help. Us. All.

LolaSmiles · 30/03/2020 15:03

God. Help. Us. All.
Don't be so judgemental. I'm sure that every single person calling up about their Sunday lunch had a very good reason to. Maybe they all had mental health issues, or autism, or any other condition that some mumsnetters like to drop in when playing whataboutery.
Maybe every single one of them were key workers who only wanted a carvery because they couldn't get anything to eat in the supermarket.
Maybe they were all caring for vulnerable people and having selflessly donated all their food to the community they realised they were going to go hungry if they didn't go to the carvery

Note: yes I'm aware that vulnerable people and those with mental health needs need better support than is currently available, I'm just light-heartedly laughing at the readiness of some MNers to scramble for an excuse for cheekyfuckery.

Chillicheese123 · 30/03/2020 15:10

To be honest and I feel absolutely awful saying it I do, but I went out for a walk to the shop today to get milk and eggs and plasters and I saw five very elderly people all with frames or sticks, very frail types, separate yes but one was chatting away at a door to another older man, one was chatting in the shop to the shopkeeper oblivious that I was waiting at the door so I didn’t have to go near them to put them at risk. I am healthy and fit and young and the chances of me becoming seriously ill are not zero but much much lower than these people becoming seriously ill. One lady looked like she’d bought a packet of biscuits and was struggling to make it down a step in the pavement. If she fell and broke a leg or arm, or hip, she’d need hospital treatment which would be dangerous for her.

We have a local phone number for people to ring to be put in touch with a local volunteer network for food drop offs, and people every day posting on our village Facebook group offering to bring food for those who can’t get out. Local grocers are doing drop offs if you ring them and explain. There’s really no reason for them to be out. Might get flamed but it’s true !

CeibaTree · 30/03/2020 15:40

He told me that the manager spent most of Sunday morning (yesterday) answering calls from people wondering if they were doing a carvery
Our local pub is doing a takeaway sunday lunch - were people enquiring about something like that?

macaroniandpizza · 30/03/2020 17:07

The selfishness and entitlement in some people since this whole thing started actually beggars belief

alloutoffucks · 30/03/2020 17:41

@Yester Not doing much exercise for 12 weeks is not going to kill anyone. And no reason why you have to get fat because you are less physically active.

alloutoffucks · 30/03/2020 17:49

@flippityflobbertyn You can get round it if you buy multi packs e.g. one tin of sweetcorn, but 4 bound together in plastic still count as 1 item. A lot of people I suspect though are just going out more than once a week.

GabsAlot · 30/03/2020 17:51

Lost 3 stone on a diet once no exercise coz i hate it so no you dont have to exercise unless doctor has recommended it

i know i'll get flamed

Wheresthebeach · 30/03/2020 18:13

Massive guy, Mask down, cigarette lite! Astonishingly he was being berated for it by a very angry tiny woman. It was a sight.

butterpuffed · 30/03/2020 18:18

I doubt most would be selfish enough to pick up eight tins of sweetcorn instead of two just because they're wrapped in fours, alloutoffucks.

Saying you 'can get round it' makes it sound like a competition when the limit has obviously been put in place for a reason ~ ie so that we all have a decent chance of buying what we need.

QueSera · 30/03/2020 18:20

What's wrong with wearing a gas mask, or a dog in a mask? Maybe a gas mask was all the guy could get. Very unnecessarily judgy OP.

SpillTheTeaa · 30/03/2020 18:30

What a horrible thread with very very bitchy MN's.

silversquid · 30/03/2020 20:07

Our local pub is doing a takeaway sunday lunch - were people enquiring about something like that?
Alas no they were asking about their sit in carvery

sueelleker · 30/03/2020 20:54

@silversquid You're not in Brighton are you? Our local community pub is doing that.