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

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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'd have to be drunk to join in.

I think it sounds like fun don't do.it if you don't want to sounds like a good way to liven up.a dull queue

Ask them if they have a PRS licence

OMG introvert nightmare. I’m with you op, faded with this I would have decided my essential shopping was no longer so essential and run for the hills.

I’d have gone for the Verve, the Drugs Don’t Work, add some cheer

I'd have to leave the queue. Starvation seems the more palatable option.

Or gone to Waitrose where no doubt someone is playing a harp.

This made me lol.

I'm no introvert but this is my idea of hell, I would have driven straight back out unless you only knew once you committed to the queue.

On the flip side I did Sainsbury's this morning and the long queue just consisted of people glancing nervously at each other.

'Stayin' Alive' would be a good one.

Silence is golden by the tremolos?

Auntie Marys - I would have gone home. Or gone to Waitrose where no doubt someone is playing a harp. Thanks for that - made me laugh so much.

I wouldn't join in OP, but I might tap my foot. TBH, "We'll Meet Again" would have made me quite tearful.

It’s cringe but I don’t think bringing ‘the virus’ into it is necessary ... doing the Macarena is no more likely to pass the virus on that standing normally in a queue, as long as social distancing still applies. Just own the fact that it’s not your bag and don’t join in, but don’t act like it’s because it’s spreading the ‘rona 🤪

Great thread! I couldn't bring myself to actually dance, but might raise a bit of a buttock cheek up and down in time to Mr Brightside. A bit like on The Full Monty

Dancing at Tesco would be fine with me. It's the clapping I don't like. particularly as it's accompanied by fireworks and car horns and clanging bells. My elderly cat is absolutely terrified and pees behind the sofa every time.

Good for them enjoying themselves but OMG I’m such an introvert I would probably sprint to my car and hide in the boot.

@SinisterBumFacedCat ‘if a double decker bus, crashes intooo usss...’ would be great to warble that in a queue, so cheery. Doris style from Gavin and Stacy 😂

I'd love this, as long as there was nobody I knew in the queue.
Would ask for Bohemian Rhapsody.

Yes I don’t think

‘Do not do the Macarena’

was on Boris’s list.

I’m a complete introvert, would rather shut my left tit in a car door than get involved.

This has had me laughing. A lot. For this phrase alone YANBU thank you, OP.

That sounds lovely - brave person who started it!

Wish I was there it sounds great

Or gone to Waitrose where no doubt someone is playing a harp.

Brilliant!

Suggest Ebeneezer Goode by the Shamen, some whistles and a batchload of glow sticks tossed into the waiting crowd OP?

I wouldn't dance but I'd sing. Where in SW London? Anywhere near the Merton Burger King that's reopened? Two birds, y'know...

I think on Mumsnet it's cool to be miserable or angry about something.

Dance or don't dance. No one cares.

Your description made me laugh, but I wouldn't be if I were there.

I can't say I'm actually surprised - think the hysteria is setting in for some, but I just wish it would stop.

There are attempts at neighbourly fun on my street, but it's just an excuse to be noisy and there's a distinct lack of physical distance between them.

I was considering a trip to supermarket for a reprieve from the music, but it sounds like that would be wishful thinking!

Dancing at Tesco would be fine with me. It's the clapping I don't like. particularly as it's accompanied by fireworks and car horns and clanging bells.

We get clapping, cheering, bells, whistles, fireworks AND A FUCKING SAXOPHONE. Played very, very badly.