How often do you have visitors? (distanced)

[starrysimon]

I haven’t had any personally. I’ve had family members drop shopping on the doorstep but they drive off straight away. I haven’t even seen my own DD from a distance as she’s isolated with my DM 5 mins away, she was at risk here and was the most sensible decision. She’s only 4 so it would upset her not being able to see me. Due to this is infuriating me seeing my neighbour get the same visitors every single day. They do try to distance but not very well as they stand directly in front of my front door to speak (open driveways). This means if I needed to go out I’d have to wait until they leave or look like a tit asking them to move from an open window or such.

They’re there for an hour most days and I have to sit and endure their conversations as have had the windows open with the weather being so hot. These people drive here as well and is hardly an essential trip as they don’t drop things off for them or anything.

AIBU to think they don’t need to see their friends every single day (same age couples as neighbours so more than likely not all family if any). Phone calls and FaceTime should suffice. Is anyone else having ‘distanced’ visitors often?

[justilou1]

Start coughing and gagging a lot every time this happens (beside open windows of course) and I suspect that this problem will resolve itself fairly quickly....

[40somethingJBJ]

I’ve been adding bits of shopping to my orders for a friend who lives around the corner, and when she collects, during her daily exercise, she stands at the end of my drive and we have a chat for half an hour or so once a week. Yesterday, my neighbour came out to her bin whilst we were chatting and she joined in the conversation. We were all at least 4-5 metres away, so no risk, and it was lovely to have a bit of interaction. Other than that, I’ve had a chat with the bloke over the road whilst we were both out doing bits on our caravans, and a chat with the postman from a distance a couple of times, but no visitors as such.

[StrangerDaysAhoy]

@starrysimon OP you are too nice. TELL THEM.

Or:

Put a sign up - 'pregnant lady resting - please respect property boundary & social distancing and keep noise down, thank you'

Park a car there

Leave a wheelbarrow and your bins there

Put on loud rap music whenever they do it

Leave a bowl of fish guts on your doorstep

[Orangesox]

We dropped off eggs at my Dad’s whilst walking past their house on the way back from the farm shop. We left the eggs on their door step, they spoke to us briefly from their first floor balcony.

They live less than 200m from us as do a number of our friends and that’s the first time we’ve seen anyone face to face for more than a few seconds in passing whilst out walking since all social distancing came in. We keep in touch with social media and on the phone, we all know that we have to just get on with it and keep in touch this way if we all want the best chance of survival.

[ifonly4]

We haven't had any visitors at our door. We have spoken to others though:

Either across the road, it's a quiet cul-de-sac.

I've dropped food off at my Mum's once a week and we've had 5 minute chat at least 6m apart.

We went on a bike ride earlier and dropped easter eggs (off on my brother-in-law's doorstep for his kids). He happened to be working at the side of the house so said a quick hello and the children waved from a closed window.

[Catchme91]

I kill

[Judystilldreamsofhorses]

MIL dropped off some rhubarb from her garden on Tuesday. She text to say she was here, left it on the doorstep, then stood in the middle of the road for a chat!

We’ve been dropping treats for next door’s little boy (sweets, comics) but all conducted via text/notes, and they left some Easter eggs in our garden earlier today. I get Grazia magazine weekly on subscription, which I then put through the door of our neighbour on the other side - she and I have long text conversations in the evenings, and hope to progress to wine in our gardens if it ever warms up.

[BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou]

Nobody. Not even distanced.

Would love to see my DD but that would be non essential travel.

FaceTime or equivalent with DD every few days and Zoom regularly with a group of friends I’d usually see every week.

The house a few doors away has regular visitors, cuddling grandchildren, teen and friends in garden and going out etc.

You can’t fix stupid unfortunately.