To think this is absolutely fine! (Social distancing query sorry)

[lastqueenofscotland]

Today I was headed off to do my shopping, and en route to the shop is my friends house, you actually have to drive past her house to get to the supermarket, no diversions needed to get there.

She accidentally ordered two of one item and the returns policy was a nightmare so she asked if I would like the other, it’s an item I will make use of. I said that would be lovely so she asked me to text when I was leaving my house and she would leave it on the drive for me to collect.
Pick it up on the way to the supermarket (a trip I would have been making anyway) and this woman comes out of her house going absolutely apoplectic saying I was taking the piss this wasn’t an essential trip etc. Really shouting at me. I just ignored her and got back in the car... I really don’t think this was unreasonable surely?!

Great link anxietrist.

OP people are bonkers!

Adding to the crowd - you did nothing wrong.

However, be kind to these people, lockdown has triggered a lot of people's mental health issues, they have lost their support network and the government is promoting fear of the virus above what is necessary for many people who are younger and healthy.

Some people have literally sat in the house for 7 weeks doing nothing, seeing no one getting increasingly angry at everyone else not doing lockdown properly and risking their health. Just read a few of the threads on here for people really angry at the whole situation loving having someone doing things wrong in order to take all that pent up anger out on.

The biggest and most worrying shortage during coronavirus is COMMON SENSE!!!

You did nothing wrong, and I'm a person who follows the lockdown exactly. Perfectly fine and you were going out anyway.
I would sanitise the package myself, once I got home, but that's choice....

Problem is, some of the stupidity displayed on Friday with the complete deliberate misinterpretation of the street party idea to suite the Great British need for a communal piss up, is triggering people who are sticking to strict lockdown rules.

It doesn't help that people that are calling out and getting frustrated with lockdown rule ignorers are now getting called busy bodies at best, and 'Stasi collaborators ' at worse.

anxietrist- how do you link to a tweet?

There are some mash report ones (the room next door) which are brilliant and worth sharing (including Matt Hancock's latest Covid briefing), but I can't find how to link (techno-idiot here)

@anxietrist that’s brilliant and so true 😂😂

Jumping in here SchadenfreudePersonified, at the bottom of a tweet are the links to replies, favourite etc. The last one on the right gives you the option to share it:

help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/share-a-tweet

anxietrist

😀

@SchadenfreudePersonified I just copied the link from the web page and copied to my post

(pasted)

Sharing items like this is actually allowed in the guidance. The lady was ridiculous. But lockdown makes people anxious.

Thank you nettie and anxietrist

I'll give it a go!

Okay - let's try this . . .

twitter.com/MrMichaelSpicer/status/1259031511891877888?s=20

Yay!

It works!

Thank you people!

It's worth a look, BTW.

Ha ha @SchadenfreudePersonified

Next time you visit your friend, post a copy of 1984 through the woman’s door.

That was really funny SchadenfreudePersonified. Thank you. I am off to watch more of The Mash Report now.

Shut the fuck up you curtain twitching cunt is the first thing that ran through my mind tbh

I appreciate that people are scared and it's making them overreact, but this kind of aggressive policing of other people is so damaging.

I have asd and the fear of encountering people like this has meant that I have been largely unable to leave the house since this started. DH, who is in the vulnerable group has had to go to the shops, which I feel awful about.

From what I've heard there are many in the autistic community in the same position. For someone with asd, this wouldn't just be an unpleasant encounter, this would have sent me into shut down for days and still be looping around for years afterwards.

I really wish people would stop and think before having a go at strangers, they have no idea what their situation is, what difficulties they may have or what harm they may be causing.

So, to get off my soapbox, no, you were not being unreasonable, she was.

I particularly liked the "I know you don't mean to, but you give off a Rillington Place vibe" nettie

(Also "gibbering omelette")

I know you don't mean to, but you give off a Rillington Place vibe

I don't know how I will ever be able to watch the Daily Coronavirus Briefing with a straight face again