People in the Tesco queue are doing the Macarena and I’m cringing so hard I think I might turn inside out

[Prettybubblesintheair]

Just that really, essential shopping trip for us and two elderly shielded neighbours. Standing in the huge queue for Tesco, they’re blasting 90’s and 00’s classics out and people are dancing accordingly. At the end of each song they all cheer and clap. I’m a complete introvert, would rather shut my left tit in a car door than get involved.

Probably being a miserable kill joy but with a killer virus on the loose I don’t feel like flailing your limbs about and cheering me in close proximity to lots of people is the best idea. I want to shop then go home and sit in the bloody garden, not do the fucking time warp. Again.

I dance in my supermarket all time- the musics really good, they play lots of oldies, so I would be doing the full on macarena sorry OP.

Seriously? Just get on with your shopping and get out, FFS. The longer you spend prancing around the aisles and blocking other shoppers, the longer other poor sods have to spend queueing outside.

Morning all

Well the dress I bought is missing the belt...I blame the events I had just witnessed. I was too traumatised to check it properly. DH is trying to persuade me to go back as a) he likes the dress but thinks it needs the belt to give me “shape” (I’m a barrel. Actually barrel shaped) and b) some brightspark has drank all the milk and c) he wants bbq stuff. Only the milk is essential and I am not bloody going back there until Monday.

@Sparklingbrook

Recipe for Lockdown Conga:

1. A large cul-de-sac about 200 yards long with an empty road
2. Many neighbours
3. Warm sunshine
4. Black Lace at full volume
5. A very long rope with knots tied in it at appropriate intervals

And away you go

I love your thinking @yellowbrickwhorl if there’s a queue at B&Q when I go for the rope I can practice.

I’d love that 😂

It was my neighbour's idea

OP I think you're confusing the macerena with the Hokey Cokey and you turn around not inside out. That's what it's all about.

If you bump trolleys, do they sing 'Wheel meet again'?

Tut OP, this is what you get for slumming it in SW London. Move to the shires where we have a string quartet serenading the purchasing of our essentials and a socially distanced gentle waltz to the contactless checkout.

God as if timetabled ve jollity wasnt and enough. That sounds awful.

got this sorted always send my partner i hate shopping he dont mind but he is in and out in two minutes he dont hang about as for dancing not a chance he would tell them all to bog off

Are you on the blob?

glennamy Sat 09-May-20 18:09:25
Are you on the blob?
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Another post that made me laugh out loud! Mumsnet is on good form today. Let's keep it up!

If I was shitfaced I'd think it was the best thing in the world and probably start trying to grind on the security guard. But sober... I'd rather plunge my face into my nutribullet.

I think that I would have joined in, providing we are all kept at the safe distance we need some cheering up there is so much worry at present and to give a bit of a laugh wether you can dance or not adds a bit of joy to the sad times at present. It's a great form of exercise which the Government approve of at the current time. Enjoy yourself it's later than you think. You may want to tray Agg a do do do Push Pineapple Shake the tree :)

I queued for over an hour to get in tescos yesterday. Some music would have been nice but I appreciate not everyone feels the same. I was surprised how accepting everyone was.

I am cringing just reading that.

It’s just a jump to the left

My daughter, me and about five other people were singing along to Shania Twain and ABBA (amongst others) in Morrisons on Thursday. It was a fun and different way of doing our shopping - got some disapproving looks - but figured what the hell!

There was no dancing - thank goodness - but it certainly made people smile.

I love this thread!
I wish the security guard at my local supermarket had to endure enforced dancing and singing the miserable bastard!

Yeah brits dancing aka flailing around like mad half deaf broken legged ducks

I'd hate it too... First.. eyeballs would be hurting from such disturbing visuals
.....not to mention all that extra shedding virus micro particles being flung around in the air through extra sweat and spit!! YUK!!

Well, I danced in the Aldi queue earlier ..... all on my own

I'm in lockdown on my own, haven't had face to face contact with anyone since hugging my favourite tech and walking away from the office on 20 March and, like everyone else, I'm feeling it

I keep my distance, I follow the rules and if dancing in the queue gets me through, then dance I will.

And, for the record, I'm a massive introvert. I also have a hobby which requires me to stand on stage and perform. On my own. Dancing in public has bugger all to do with levels of introversion

"Well, I danced in the Aldi queue earlier ..... all on my own"

Ooh-glad I'm not the only one who does this!

Maybe now we realise how the world is full of a few extroverts who constantly try to make themselves happy without thinking about what introverts want, and rule our social lives by defining what's normal. It's not normal for 50% of the population. It's like the clapping and making a racket. They are doing it for themselves now. At first it was for the health service but now it feels like it's for the extroverts.

My 20 year old self would rather die than join in with anything
My 50 year old self really couldn’t care less and I would join in
There’s one bonus to getting older.Not giving a toss about making a prat of myself