What's your most ridiculous covid moment?

[Iremembertheelderlykoreanlady]

Thought we could have a light hearted thread about covid (not intended to offend anyone. I know the whole situation has been awful and tragic and I can't wait for this to be over!)

Apart from a lot of jumping into bushes which i did early on, when walking past people in the fresh air, my most ridiculous moment came tonight.

After my son had his tea he came up to me and said "mum, that pizza tasted funny"

Cue a fairly major panic from me thinking, right, change in taste. I need to get him a test. Oh crap that means he'll miss dancing tomorrow.

Double crap we are supposed to have 2nd vaccine this week. That'll have to be rescheduled.

Triple crap! I've avoided covid this long and now I'm going to catch it 2 days before I'm fully vaccinated! (CV)

....then I remembered he had used corsodyl mouthwash just before (long story!)

Now I feel like a tit Anyone else...?

My neighbour anti bacced food shopping / wore gloves/ quarantined post/ washed clothes etc etc totally OTT

I barely washed my hands

Guess which one of us got covid?!

Was asked to use hand sanitiser so squirted some on my hand. Found myself with one hand full of a dollop of sanitiser and the other gloved and holding the other glove. I was completely nonplussed and just stood there, blocking the entrance, incapable of working out how to deal with this.

That is fucking brilliant 🤣🤣

The vet calling to book the cat in for his annual jab and me subjecting them to a 10 min conversation regarding whether cats could catch or pass on Coronavirus - so embarrassed whenever I think about it now!! I had read the same article as others on here...

I also held my breath when walking past people in the supermarket and genuinely thought that would stop me catching it!! Also regularly tried to stock up on 2 weeks worth of food so we’d be ok if we had to self isolate - even though we were both WFH and kids were home schooling. Ended up with rammed cupboards and fridge and of course, it’s impossible to have enough milk etc for that time. Ridiculous!! So glad we’re all better educated now 😀 !

@Remmy123

We had a similar situation. My MIL sanitised EVERYTHING. Barely left the house, even last summer when we could meet in gardens. The most she did was walk the dog around the block.

She got a (thankfully mild) dose of covid. How the hell that happened I don't know but it did make us all think if you can be that careful and still get it then what's the point?!

Going to church and seeing everyone wearing masks and sitting 2m apart from each other, windows and doors open. And just listening to the hymns, not singing. Being told to leave as soon as it was over and not linger. Very sad and depressing. Thankfully we can now sing, with masks on.

I’m friendly with one of our neighbours, an older lady who lives alone except for her lovely dog. The dog and I are great pals, but right at the start of lockdown one my neighbour properly shouted at me/dog to keep apart in case one of us gave the other Covid. I was so shocked I almost burst into tears! She apologised profusely later, and my dog friend and I are back on petting and licking terms.

Another one of my neighbours is still doing pretty much everything mentioned on this thread, despite not being vulnerable, working outside the home throughout, and having two dc in school. I do wonder if she is ever going to get back to “normal” or if this is how her life will be from now on.

Washing shopping down, did this a few times then gave up.

The washing shopping is ridiculous when you think about it - supermarket workers would all be ill all the time if groceries were so lethal and it spread so easily in shops.

One evening I heard my teen dd coughing REALLY hard in her bedroom. My ears immediately pricked up and my mind went into overdrive. I ran to her room asking “were you just coughing?” “ yes” she replied “I choked on my drink” “ahh, that’s ok then” I sighed with relief 😅.

I remember right back at the very beginning seeing a man in the supermarket with a mask on and thinking he was a show-off dick.

I went to the supermarket once at the very start of lockdown (managed to get deliveries every week after that, until DD went back to school and I decided to brave it again). Left DD watching a film, DS napping and DH WFH.

Did the shopping, raced home and wiped everything cold down before putting it in the fridge or freezer, then quarantined the rest. Washed my hands, then went upstairs and got in the shower - full body scrub, including hair and eyebrows! I'd spoken to DM earlier that day and she said I should wash inside my nose, and so I dutifully did. Or tried to, anyway. I also remembered she'd said I should wash my glasses, so I did that too...

Once I was done, something snapped in my head and I realised it was all completely OTT. Only time I wiped or quarantined anything. And the only time I've ever tried to wash my nostrils, before or since

Trying to run a Sunday school group outside and keep the 3 - 10 year olds engaged and involved but distanced from everyone but their siblings.

Following all the then guidance, I had brought a bag containing quarantined quoits, each with a different ribbon attached. Without touching the quoits, I scattered them on the grass and each child chose one. So far so good. I told them to look at theirs and remember which colour theirs was because we were all going to only touch our own quoit. What are we going to do? All fine so far.

Then we did an activity where we shouted ideas as we threw our quoit into a bucket. Very successful. Great fun.

I tipped the quoits out again and the children swooped, picking up random quoits and trying to hand them back to the owner. 'I got yours, Jamie!'

I tried to stop them but they were lovely kids and the concepts of helping and sharing were just too deeply ingrained.
As one said when I explained he should only pick up his own, 'But I helping!'

DSis on finally going back to work after maternity leave at a call centre wiped down everything she came in contact with at her work station. A colleague passed her a Rubik's cube to help with her anxiety so she could fiddle with it while answering calls, she didn't wipe it down and touched her mouth after pulling her mask down. Colleague had coronavirus, had had symptoms for a while but still went in. She caught it and passed it to her DP and her two small kids. Consequently 38 staff members from the call centre tested positive. I reckon that's a story to pass down to her grandkids one day. Coronavirus caught from a bloody Rubik's cube.

I've opened my mail or any other delivery when it arrived. I've never washed my food shopping after I got it home. I've taken public transport and been in hospitals and clinics.

Socially distanced and wore my mask.
Never had Covid.

@getyourfreakon

DSis on finally going back to work after maternity leave at a call centre wiped down everything she came in contact with at her work station. A colleague passed her a Rubik's cube to help with her anxiety so she could fiddle with it while answering calls, she didn't wipe it down and touched her mouth after pulling her mask down. Colleague had coronavirus, had had symptoms for a while but still went in. She caught it and passed it to her DP and her two small kids. Consequently 38 staff members from the call centre tested positive. I reckon that's a story to pass down to her grandkids one day. Coronavirus caught from a bloody Rubik's cube.

Out of interest did your sisters colleague get disciplined. Imagine if one of the colleagues passed it onto someone that died or was seriously ill. I'd be furious with her if I was in charge.

I made the mistake of watching Contagion during the first lockdown and convinced myself I needed a bag of emergency supplies in case things escalated badly. Completely forgot about it until I went to the pub last week, when I realised I had brought a wind-up torch, water purification tablets and a slingshot out with me!

A few weeks back I was buying a few things in Morrisons when the self scanner stopped working so the light on my till flashed red and a staff member came along, I moved away from the till so she could have space to sort the problem and she started screaming at me “GET BACK! Keep your distance please!!!! PLEASE GET BACK!” So I walked further away from her (say 4 metres?) and again she screamed “GET BACK PLEASE!!!” so I waited by the wall 9 bloody metres away. Absolutely batshit.

The other day in the supermarket I heard an 'excuse me' behind me. Turned and a softly spoken man was mumbling something behind his mask and waving a card (as in greetings card) at me.

I automatically stepped towards him and said 'sorry?' And he automatically stepped back the same distance. Remembering social distancing I spoke up and said I didnt hear him, and he said that he had left his reading glasses in his car and would I mind reading the poem on the front for him.

Automatically stupidly I stepped forward again (to see the card) and the poor sod jumped back. Then we did this sort of arms length dance so he could give it to me.

I read out the poem (sympathy card) feeling like a bit of a tit as it was corny, and he kept asking me to repeat parts as he confessed he was hard of hearing! I couldnt bear to step closer so practically had to shout this really naff poem across the aisle with everyone looking at me, do the awkward dance again when I handed it back and he thanked me and I was left feeling what the fuck has the world come to

Quarantining shopping in the bath for 3 days. The bathroom was cold so I figured cold things could survive. I wore gloves to the supermarket that I could chuck in the machine. One hand for trolley/touching produce and the other sanitised for touching my credit card and car keys. I was in tears when I went to fill up my car and realised I didn't have any gloves or sanitiser at the thought of all those people touching the pump before me.

I am mask exempt. I was in a store and there was a couple near by me.... the woman uttered to her partner that "we will get symptoms in 2 weeks" because of me... we were in the health and beauty aisle.... she then said "can't wear a mask but can wear a face pack, that's a first".... when I was looking at face packs (for someone else!).

I have been either furloughed or WFH throughout the pandemic, so I always heard the postie deliver. At which point I would put on my mask & rubber gloves, pick up the post, spray each item thoroughly with anti-viral sanitiser then put it in the garage to quarantine for 72 hours. Then I would wash my gloved hands. Then I would remove the gloves, wash my hands and remove my mask.

In my defence, I’m asthmatic so I set out to dodge the bullet until I was vaccinated, and I succeeded.

Stupidly kept my children off school during first lock down even though as a keyworker they could attend. School of 1400 pupils had no positive cases... very low rates in area the entire time.

Quarantined my post. Didn't wash shopping but washed hands after touch.

No one I know here has ever had covid. A daughter of friend and partner's son had it when at university but neither realised since no symptoms just other students gad it.

The ramping up the fear of covid worked well. I now realise average age of death 82....past the normal age expectation 😳

I will wipe down my shopping for life, the thought of loads of germy hands on it covid or no covid

Being asked to walk round a few cones which meant walking a fair way in the other direction of the door because that's the way the arrows will be when they finally get painted.
No other customer there, just me: 9 months pregnant in the heat of summer.
Sitting in the car crying with my newborn latched baby because all the toilets were locked for covid safety and this was the third attempt to find somewhere to wee before our journey home.