Tell me the stupidest things that you've encountered during this pandemic

[Mommabear20]

So here's mine:
I look after my niece one day a week and last week it happened to fall on the day our grocery delivery was due, it arrived without my dogs food and we'd run out that morning, so loaded my DD and niece (6 month old and 1 year old) to the supermarket, literally went in, both girls in pushchair so she wasn't running wild, grabbed the dog food and headed to the till, she'd been very good so I grabbed her a individual packet of chocolate buttons as a treat from next to the till, only for the lady behind me to tut and say 'that's not exactly essential shopping is it! Idiots like you are the reason we're in this mess! You should be ashamed of yourself! Then again what do we expect from girls like you that have nothing better to do than keep popping out kids for the benefits!' 😂 I love people's assumptions!

1. Only 1 is actually mine,
2. Both girls we're planned and very much wanted,

And 3. I'm 26 and married 😂 I loved the look on her face when I turned round and informed her 'and I'm pregnant again!' 😂

I have another (better) one. My work put stickers on all the rooms with how many people could be in a room at once. They did this for every room... including the self-contained single cubicle toilets (these are a room containing one toilet and sink, in case the above is not clear)!

First lockdown, an absolute jobsworth in our local Superdrug bellowing instructions at me when I entered the store! Demanded to know what I wanted to buy before I could enter wtf? and expecting me to tell her my exact requirements before I could enter, while being told I had to be responsible when I said I needed shower gel, toothpaste and some hair dye (apparently hair dye was irresponsible). Have not and will not set foot in that store again over that ridiculous ott behaviour. Boots didn’t seem to mind what you bought as long as you practice distancing etc

The general public. The whole bloody lot of them.

A recent highlight was the group of four forty-somethings who boarded a train, removing their masks once sat down and replacing them when they left. One of the risk factors for spread is dwell time. Therefore you're at much higher risk for the thirty minutes sat in close proximity to others than in the thirty seconds it takes to walk to/from the door. So keep the bloody things on throughout!

The pharmacy counter in boots shutting 1-2pm so the dispensing assistant could come out and touch all the products lining them all
Up. I asked if I could buy some dentanox teething gel. The only teething gel that is sold behind the counter (without a prescription needed!) and not on the shelf at 1.59pm. Was told no. At 2pm I asked again and she said she had to wait. I asked how long the pharmacy counter was shut meaning would it open at 2pm she told me ‘since covid’ how does shutting the counter for an hour to touch all the products help fight covid????

@110APiccadilly

I have another (better) one. My work put stickers on all the rooms with how many people could be in a room at once. They did this for every room... including the self-contained single cubicle toilets (these are a room containing one toilet and sink, in case the above is not clear)!

Gosh my work have done this too. Tiny bathrooms where you can barely fit in yourself, let alone coats, bags, or other people. Big sticker on the door "max. 1 person allowed inside"

@110APiccadilly

I have another (better) one. My work put stickers on all the rooms with how many people could be in a room at once. They did this for every room... including the self-contained single cubicle toilets (these are a room containing one toilet and sink, in case the above is not clear)!

Same at my work.

My boss have me the evil when I laughingly said to my colleague (who's a great friend)

"Oh - that puts pay to us sharing anymore"

Tbf I didn't realise my boss was there ...... but still!

Clothes shops letting you touch and feel all the clothes, but not allowing you to actually try them on.
Quarantining any returns as they’re crawling with Covid ............

@Bagelsandbrie

We had an old man shout at us because we were playing with a football in the park near us. Just me and ds. In the open air. No one else around.

During 1st lockdown, some random guy took a photo of me and DS2, playing with a little foam ball in the park on our own, miles from anyone, and said he was putting it on FB.

I still have literally no idea what rule he thought I was breaking. Not exercising hard enough maybe?

@garlictwist

Other half and I went for a (perfectly legal) Bike ride in the first lockdown. Stopped by an (empty) village green to have a drink of our own water. A man came out of his house and shouted that exercise should be "one continuous loop" and that stopping was not permitted.

Me too! Except it was the police in our local park. I’d just finished a 10k run, stopped for a drink, and was told mid-chug that if I was stationary I wasn’t exercising, and needed to leave the park.

1. The woman who demanded to see the manager because she had to walk to the end of the queue outside sainsbury's when she was already at the entrance when she arrived with the trolley.

1. The man walking along the road smoking whilst wearing a face mask.

1. the teen on a bike who instead of holding the large juice bottle (2l type) in one hand whilst steering with other thought it better to hold between his teeth. Made me wince looking. The weight of it alone ouch.

4.The girl who paraded around friends and local shops etc before coming clean that she had covid but decided as she hadn't had an answer either way that she was likely negative. How wrong she was. she then went on to argue with anyone that they needed to get their facts right when all the facts were taken from her own messages in screenshots.

The charity shop that refused to take an item I had brought in but that they would happily take it in the next day but to call first and take it in the back door. bearing in mind people come in carrying shopping all the time. I think they thought covid might be scoping the territory for best infectious routes or something.

I've seen lots of stupid things but will describe my last one which happened today. Whilst driving a nearly hit a young man as he walked into the road so he could overtake someone on the pavement and keep a "social distance" from them. He never gave a thought to the possible dangers of suddenly stepping onto the road he was so nervous about the risk of being within 2m of someone for a brief moment. I could have killed him! Madness!

An anti mask covid denying 5G loon protesting about being "imprisoned" whilst standing in the sun in the shops eating a burger and taking it turns with his mates to man the placards and drink beer in the sunshine.

Our local co-op had a one way system which would just send you in endless circles, you could never actually leave the store unless you went against the arrows somewhere!

@damnyouautocucumber classic. :) I was really annoyed when I went to a local shop to buy frozen peas, limping badly on what turned out to be a broken ankle, not that they could have known that, but it was obviously v painful. The shop was empty but they still made me complete the whole one way system, and hobble to the further till to pay. I could at least get out though!

@nohomemadecandles the DC's school quarantined Christmas cards for a week! The school didn't tell the parents about this, relying on primary-age children to pass on the message. Cue surreptitious Christmas card swapping between parents in the playground during the last week of term. Drug dealers have nothing on us!

The horrible man who shouted at MIL who had mistaken trolley cleaner for handgel outside Sainsbury's.

He came right up and shouted in her face too.

I feel obligated to point out that plenty of the daftness was special government sanctioned stupidly. Signs about Max room occupancy and quarantining returned clothing being particular examples.

School sending home a physical letter out, asking for a random fancy dress outfit to be provided the next day. So it could be quarantined for 3 days before they did a “nativity” video

Makes me wonder if they make them strip off each day

A few months ago a woman was ranting in the supermarket about how busy it was andwhy were so many people out and about. Fair enough, it was a bit busy... Except she had her mother, husband and three teenagers with her, who she was ranting at. All surrounding people were either a single adult,bor a single adult with a small child in the trolley seat.

So the stupidest thing I've seen... Is people blaming others while thinking their own actions are blameless.

I had an accident with a chip fryer in my home and used EVERY SINGLE TOWEL in my house. Cleaning up a huge oil spill.

I had to go and purchase some new ones during lockdown.

I had to go and buy non essential essential items to buy my essential non essential item.

I explained this later to someone and gather told me that I should have used a bed sheet to dry myself with for the remainder of the lockdown.

@Tenyearsgone

About a million posts on MN.

Yep this.

Because there were millions of posts saying stuff like the thing about the buttons. There was something about milk for hot drinks and how this wasn't essential.

I get it was/is about reducing the number of trips to the shops. But actually transmission seems very low from supermarkets and if you're buy essential stuff then additional non essentials make no difference. Also who the fuck gets to decide what is essential?!

Someone coming into the healthcare setting I work in to tell us he tested positive that day

I live in Wales, yesterday we had a fair amount of snow in the hills.

My Facebook feed was full of friends driving into Wales from England to go and play in the snow, and how wonderful it had been.

Yet I live here and had to take my exercise to start and finish from my home, so no snow for us! 😳

During the first lock down, our local police were stopping anyone from walking on our wide, open beach. Meaning dog walkers and randoms out for a walk were confined to our tiny streets with narrow footpaths rather than the miles of open space on the beach

Posts on here and local FB groups banging on about essential shopping only and calling anyone who bought a bottle of wine or a bar of chocolate with their normal weekly shop a murderer.

Panic buying loo roll

The woman on a local FB group posting a photo ranting about the length of the queue outside B&Q - while standing in the queue outside B&Q

The man who took it upon himself to stand at a local busy traffic light junction at rush hour, counting cars and estimating that only 25% were essential journeys and posting his findings on a FB community group - he did this twice a day, every day for the whole of the first lockdown.

I had a work related one not too long ago. I work with deaf adults and whilst going around the supermarket with one of them I (briefly) removed my mask in order to communicate with him. Some random person screamed at me to put my "fucking mask back on". When I said that I needed to communicate with a deaf person I was told to "put the fucking thing back on and shout louder then!!"