I met a friend for a walk / picnic yesterday.
We’ve both got small babies (6 months)
It’s the first chance we’ve had to meet and I was really looking forward to it.
Turns out I found the afternoon quite stressful and didn’t enjoy it.
We started off having a walk but every few minutes she was reminding me to stay away from her and the baby and pointing out that I had broken the 2m “barrier”.
I hadn’t done this on purpose and I’m well aware of how to distance, but some paths were smaller than others so it wasn’t possible to be exactly two meters apart, although we weren’t far off!!
Yet she kept pointing out that I was less than 2m.
I’d taken a lunch bag with me and the basket in my pram was already quite full, she didn’t have anything in hers so I asked if I could put my lunch bag under her pram.
She told me it wasn’t safe for me to do that because it’s risking spreading Covid.
I didn’t say anything about this, I just carried my own bag.
We sat down and ate our picnic and I suggested we let the babies play together but she was really against this idea and said the babies should distance.
As we were leaving and packing up, her sons blanket fell from the pram, I picked it up and gave it to her and she told me she didn’t want to take that now and I shouldn’t have touched it as it’s not safe and it’s how Covid spreads.
I apologised and told her I’d sanitised my hands after we’d eaten.
She told me to just put it under the pram, which I did.
She then said she would walk back to the car alone as the path was too small for us to distance so we said our goodbyes and we left.
She’s messaged saying she had a lovely day and would I like to do it again.
But I didn’t really have a lovely day, I felt on edge around her and I think I’d feel the same if we were to meet again.
Should I tell her that she was being too extreme? Or is it that I’m too relaxed??