to wonder if cucumbers are an essential purchase?

[MadameMeursault]

Woman walked out of Tesco in front of me carrying 2 cucumbers only! Wtf?

I'm pretty sure that the people declaring you can go for weeks without food are taking the piss...

Reading some of these threads I feel I've stepped into the twilight zone. Where no one has any common sense.

Whether she was making pimms, a salad or simply sticking it where the sun don't shine. It's something she's perfectly within her rights to do. Leave the poor woman alone and be about your business you poor and obviously bored person.

I only eat dust.

For goodness sake, she needs cucumbers!!! Maybe she is combining getting her cucumbers with exercise. So ruddy what!

I have developed a liking for eating grass, just to avoid going to a shop and having some bird brain accusing me of buying non essentials when holding a pint of milk and a loaf of bread!!

If it was just me, DH and DD3 I’d go to the shops once a week or less. But DD2 has OCD and her rituals are mainly around sanitising and washing. If she can’t do her rituals she will go into a meltdown (she is also on the autistic spectrum) and she has cut herself in the past because she couldn’t feel clean. A couple of years ago she was hospitalised after an overdose. So forgive me for going to the bloody shops every morning at 10 on the dot when they open to see if I can buy more soap and sanitiser. Thanks to the panic buyers forcing prices up and causing everywhere to be out of stock I can’t get my usual bulk supply online. If they haven’t got it at the usual shop I either come out empty-handed or I buy one or two “non-essentials” so you might see me come out with a bag of fruit and a pack of biscuits. Go judge me.

Is this a real question?

Can't believe the threads on here.

My 3 year old loves snacking on cucumber, so it’s essential for us

My rabbit told me to tell you that YABVU.

Absolutely wetting myself. Or is that the cucumber?

I'm on shielding plan. If I cant get delivery THIS shit is why I feel embarrassed to ask people to get me shopping. I feel like I should only be allowed to ask for like beans and rice or something like jungle life style. Maybe some gruel.

And no tea bags cos I can just drink tap water.

perhaps she couldn't get any batteries?

Yes, fruit & veggies are essential.

Minding other people’s business is not.

Yes. You are.

Ooh! Bought a bottle of Cointreau in the local Coop on Saturday. Kill me now.

I'm off to the post office tomorrow to post an essential letter.
Then while I'm in there I'm buying myself an easter egg. It's not essential but I'm in the shop anyway so why not.
Im an nhs nurse and know how important isolating is but an easter egg will do wonders to lift my spirits.
OP and her ilk can hoik as much as they like.

Only on MN could 2 cucumbers become a pearl rattler (not a euphamism).

Its up to people to make their own risk assessment. I am trying not to pop into shops for a couple of cucumbers etc right now as I think its too risky vs my possible need for phallic veg. I might raise an inner eye brow if I was behind her in the queue but I don't know what hers circs are, none of us do.

Maybe she has DC with special needs who only live on cucumber. Maybe she felt she would make best use her lock down time for personal pleasure (do make sure work video conferencing is switched off though) Who knows?

Would you be brave enough to ask her to her face?

YABU. These are hard times and sometime's a cucumber is a woman's best friend.

Cointreau @lincolfield? Goodness me.

Well, hoiks bosom we are self righteously surveying the bottles of 'things we brought back from holiday 15 years ago'.

A glass of Kumquat Liquor anyone?

A friend calls it Paraquat Liquor, which I find most disrespectful.

All for the national effort.

Bet the Queen would drink it, and smile graciously as she toasted us 'We will get through this'.

@fairgame Hope you enjoy your Easter Egg! They are one of the great pleasures of life - cucumbers aside.

My understanding of only buying essentials has actually nothing to do with the specific items you buy but it's all about limiting your contact and making sure when you are having that social contact it is for essential reasons. Is it worth potentially exposing other customers and staff to covid-19 for the sake of two cucumbers? People getting so wound up telling others they are pathetic or to mind their own business etc seem to be missing the point surely?
It's nothing about being "fun police" and other such comments I keep reading.

Maybe the only veg she could afford!!!

This thread is a wind-up, right?

A bit of DP.

One for the fanny, one for the arse. Essential purchase for mental health.

Maybe she’d run out of AA batteries

Don’t judge, we all have needs

Better than buying cigarettes or alcohol...