Lockdown - was I in the wrong?

[JigsawGirl11]

So today me and DH went out for a bike ride (I will admit straight away that we didn't ride at all before lockdown and bought bikes so we can take advantage of the daily exercise a little better)

We took a bottle of water and a little packet of 6 mini sausage rolls we had in the fridge. After around 45 mins we sat down at a bench had a drink and ate the sausage rolls, police drove past once, went about 200 yards to the next roundabout and came back and told us off.

The policeman was pretty polite and apologetic, he said that we need to move on as if his Sargent saw he would fine us on the spot.

Obviously we moved on, there's no point trying to push the boundaries and I know health and the general stay at home advice is important. Personally I am a bit put out by such an infringement of what's usually a basic human right and the common sense that it we didn't have sausage rolls we prob would have been able to have a break/drink of water whilst on the bike ride.

I hope no-one is going to jump on about scold me like a child, obviously I thought what we did was okay or we wouldn't have done it but I'm interested to hear other people's opinions.

VanGoghsDog

Completely agree with you

Ignorance at its finest.

Number one why do people need to eat all of the time??? Please spare me all of the what if bollocks. If you can’t go an hour without eating stay at home.

You had. A picnic. Your trying to dress it up as something else. Grow the f up

the police apologised so it did happen

That doesnt add up with the above link?

I think it's not ok as you're touching the bench so could transmit the virus through the surface. Plus if other people spot you they might think they can go out just for a picnic and not realise you were out as part of your exercise.

Not sure why you had to have some food 45 minutes into a bike ride anyway. Couldn't you just eat before you went and again when you got home if you were that hungry? You could drink water whilst you stopped still sitting on your bike.

I used to ask my DC when they were little:

Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

If it doesn't fulfil all of those things, then don't say it to someone else.

@Davincitoad, you might like to bear this in mind before posting.

As for @darkchocolateeggs, RTFT. Or at the very least, read the OP's replies. You can set MN up so you can highlight them.

Why do these threads ALWAYS use the "what happened to #bekind" back in XYZ??

We ARE being kind, we are trying to make sure as few people as possible catch C-19!!! Excuse us for being angry because some (you) are putting more strain on resources because you want the right to eat a fecking sausage roll in public.

I have to be at work, I CANNOT do my job from home. I am one of three in an office that contained 16 people (the rest work from home now), and I get very riled when people are entering my space, (which I am trying my best to keep clean) without obeying the rules my company has put into place to help keep me safe.

People who think these rules don't apply are why it won't go away and why we will stay on lockdown.

But you crack on with your "exercise" sausage roll.

@Amymayapple I think if a pregnant woman needs to sit down, she needs to sit down
If you need to sit down after a brief bout of exercise during the current pandemic, then perhaps you should be thinking about where to exercise and how long for. The thing some people are missing is that op is pregnant, which lowers her immunity anyway. So she is best doing everything she can to stay away from public places for her health and the babies.

And just in case I need to justify my comment...Yes, I have been pregnant, and yes I have had to eat regularly because I couldn't eat big meals, and yes, I threw up everything I ate on pregnancy #1 due to PE, so I understand pregnancy and /MSfood issues.

I went on my usual 10 mile hilly bike ride yesterday. I do it every weekend. It's not a Lockdown thing! And usually I stop at a bench at the top of a particularly horrid hill and gaze out at the view. I don't have a snack or anything. Im out for exercise, not a picnic. But I do always enjoy the moment; It makes my heart sing to do this. But yesterday I didn't. It didn't feel right to do so. So I pushed on. I look forward to the day I feel I can stop at 'my bench' again.

The benches near us are taped off to stop people stopping. There is no need to stop if you are out for daily exercise.

*What will they do, give fines? If I was in the UK, I would be sitting on a bloody benchZ

They can stick that rule up their arse*

Pathetic. Absolutely without a doubt the most pathetic self centred immature attitude I've seen on here since this started.

Who is your comment aimed at, @differentnameforthis ? I've just re-read the thread, and can't find anyone using lazy hashtags, but might have missed them.

@FOTTFSOFTFOASM

The op used it...

Thanks different. All the more dense of me to miss it in that case.

FOTTFSOFTFOASM, easily done.

Sitting around eating sausage rolls and claiming it's exercise probably appeals to the same people who claim darts is a sport.

The bike ride was exercise. Literally nobody thinks eating a sausage roll is exercise. The sausage roll in no way stops the bike ride being exercise.

In a non-pandemic situation, there is nothing even remotely wrong with taking snacks on a walk or bike ride. It doesn't mean you 'can't survive' without snacking. We went for a 7.5 mile walk yesterday and took water and snacks. Don't worry though - we didn't sit on a bench. We may have stopped walking for a couple of minutes though - does that mean we weren't exercising?

@Glaceon And I think the same thing about you.

@glaceon What I AM is some one who will always advocate that when a pregnant needs to sit down - she needs to sit down.

That is not want way self centred as you call me.
You are self centred for dictating what another person should do

Rules are rules. You broke them.

There needs to be boundaries so that people know what's acceptable and what's not. Had I walked down to my local park for a picnic - on the face of it that would be no different to what you did.