My mam and sister invited me to the pub yesterday evening for a bite to eat and a few drinks. We are in Ireland and the rules are that we are allowed 1hr 45 mins in the pub.
TBH I didn't have much interest in going but my mam has been cocooning and was dying to get out. Its all she has talked about for months.
We went into my mam's local, we were in a section of the pub that had 6 tables. We were sat at two small round tables that would normally seat 6 people, we spread out so we were about 1 mtr apart from each other.
There were 2 couples at the other tables and we were 2-3 mtrs away from them.
We ordered food and had 3 drinks each. We stayed for 2.5 hours which was 45 mins over the time limit. The pub didnt mind as they were very quiet. There were lots of empty tables.
I ended up really enjoying myself. I have been very stressed over the last few months, I have had lots of problems with work (was at the point of resigning a number of times), have been working from home while trying to mind 3 children.
I came home in really good form to be met by my DH thunderous mood. He went mental that I had stayed over the allowed time. He has been shopping for my parents as they havent been out and he said what was the point of him doing that if she was going to stay in the pub for 3 hours. He said we were giving her a bad example and she would stay out longer the next time putting her and my dad at risk of catching the virus.
He was very angry with me. I went to bed early and feel awful today. Part of me thinks he is right and I shouldn't have done it and they other thinks he is overreacting. I feel really miserable and am now panicking that we have put ourselves at risk.