At the supermarket today. As usual, most people not really social distancing, but I try to just focus on what I'm doing, and ignore it.
Get to the till, the last bits of my trolley load of shopping coming through and I'm packing them in bags. I become aware of the woman behind me in the queue, who is now standing quite near the card machine at the till, and therefore well within 2m of me.
I assume she's just a bit over eager, and when she realises I haven't paid will step back. She doesn't, she moves forward and I now can't get to the card machine without reaching past her or standing right up next to her.
So I politely say can you step back please, I need to pay.
She goes off like a rocket. I couldn't understand every word because she wasn't English and her voice was muffled by her mask, but could understand most of what she said and her tone was pretty clear. She was shouting about why should she have to move back - I said social distancing rules are pretty clear - and then kept ranting.
The member of staff at the till calmly said to her that I was entitled to ask her to step back if I felt she was too close. She carried on shouting she wasn't too close, I was abusing her etc.
I had then paid; a security guard came over and she carried on ranting to him about how I was in the wrong.
In the car park as I was returning my trolley she came out of the shop and continued shouting at me, 'I don't want to stand near you, you smell, you stink' over and over at the top of her voice!
I didn't respond, because she seemed like the sort of person who would accuse me of being verbally abusive. But all because I asked her to step back - which in all honesty I would have done even pre Covid because I don't want someone 6 inches from me when I'm putting in my pin number!