Another “angry with the neighbours for flouting the rules” thread

[MrsExpo]

My neighbours are both police officers - the husband is quite senior in rank. We are in Tier 3. This afternoon, their DD has arrived for christmas, clearly intending to stay for a while. She lives and works in central London, where she lives with a long term partner (he hasn’t come, as far as I know)...... What the hell is the point of having rules? Speechless really .....

Not my neighbours but pretty much everyone in my kids school bubble has said they are carrying on with their plans, so now I feel like I won’t send him back to school for the first few weeks as we have vulnerable family member who will die soon and we don’t want to miss their funeral or seeing them for the last time.

I’ve learnt during covid time... a lot of my friends are selfish and selfish

Give over. This is becoming like a sick joke

Really, a thread to moan at neighbours? Police who might well have been spat at and worked hard throughout this?

Stop curtain twitching and give over.

Or did you want others to join in?

Here we go again....

FFS. If you're that bothered go and knock on his door and tell him so.

What the hell is the point of having rules?

So that people like you can become 'speechless' (not!) with indignation when hours of curtain twitching may provide evidence of 'flouting'.

Yawn-we don't need another thread.

What is the point of these threads, honestly? Yes they are breaking the rules. That's what some people do. Curtain twitchery and inviting other people to join you in being cross about it on the internet just spreads bad feeling and achieves absolutely nothing.

I do wonder what people did to fill their day before this pandemic.
Step away from the window op .

@Orangeblossom77777

Police who might well have been spat at and worked hard throughout this?

Doesn’t mean they can then do what they please.
I’ve worked very hard throughout doesn’t mean I can then break the rules as a reward.

This should be a collective effort. Which clearly it’s not, which is why we are fucked

My elderly next door neighbours have had people over nearly every day for the whole of the year, though every lockdown. To anyone who doesnt know them well, you would be furious. We are all sitting in, not seeing anyone, so save elderly, vulnerable people just like them, and here they are having family in every day.

But then you get to know them, and you realise she has dementia, and screams for him every 15 minutes, even at 2am, and he struggles to climb the stairs, let alone look after them both.

Moral? It's none of your business why they are breaking the rules, as you don't know their situation, nor are you entitled to know. We all need to step back, look at what this pandemic has turned us into, and stop being curtain twitching, judgemental, angry people, and give people some leeway in this really hard time. We dont know what people are going through.

tbf you don't know why she's come, it may be a place of safety.

Op as the daughters partner has not come they might well have split up and she now lives alone and has formed a bubble.

Nope we are fucked because this is a highly contagious novel virus.
We may as well try and contain the common cold.
It is impossible.
If it had clear and obvious symptoms in all patients it would be easier perhaps but so many people have nothing or very little or a wide range of symptoms that don’t fit those we are being told are ‘typical.’

We are allowed to move home. Has she lost her job or left her partner and moved in with parents for a while?

Live and let live. I can't get worked up about it.
A friend of mine is a gp receptionist.
On her fb was her and the GPS , nurses and clerical staff all out having a Xmas doo

3 tables of 6. All hugging, posing, selfies etc. Bottles of wine flowing.

Christ, get a grip. I bet you rue the day the Berlin Wall came down - otherwise you could have been an informer to the Stasi

What is it with the police? 2 officers on DH’s family side, continuing to “misinterpret” the rules, e.g. using 3 different households as childcare bubble. They were trying to persuade another family member to host them for boxing day, ignoring the fact that this person is in our christmas bubble (we have 2 households and a single person in our christmas bubble). I often think I should report them, but I expect this would just be ignored by their colleagues. It is pretty disgusting imo. I am not sure if they are that thick and actually don’t understand the rules, or just think they can bend them as it suits them.

All my friends (early 30s) in London are going home to their parents as planned. We're not, people are coming to us (within restrictions), but I don't know anyone who has decided to not go home, except a couple who would have to travel all the way to Scotland.

Maybe she hasn’t been staying in London for a while before tier 4.

Either way give it a rest.

I will not be watching what my neighbours do over Christmas. Nor do I intend to spend it curtain twitching and being speechless with sanctimonious indignation.

Enjoy yourself doing that if you like but remember that maybe you don't know everything that is going on behind closed doors there.

Maybe they have her back for mental health reasons, maybe she split from her partner and would be by herself. All sorts of reasons

Wise words from MummaBear4321

Or maybe they are just ignoring the rules (that they are handing out fines for themselves) and being selfish with no mitigating good reasons, as are most the people I know