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...?

Last Christmas I got so excited as we were allowed to go to a Carol service, we just had to keep our masks on. It was the first social event I'd been to in months and loads of friends were going so I dressed up and put a full face of makeup and lipstick on, first time after months of WFH in leggings so I really went all out. And then...I put my mask on as we walked into the chapel.

I quickly realised the bright red lipstick was now smeared all over my mask and my entire mouth and I wasn't going to be able to take my mask off, at all, until I got home. Afterwards loads of people I knew were chatting outside the chapel in the open air taking their masks off and I looked like a total covid zealot, refusing a drink or to take my mask off even when I got in my own car and drove away!!

When I took my mask off at home, I looked like the Joker

Mine happened just today. Walking from the car to the supermarket. The couple in front of me dropped one of their shopping bags. They didn't notice at first so I picked it up and called to them. The man turned around with a look of horror on his face screamed at me to drop the bag an move away. It was like something from a bad police movie I was &

I was walking my dog and saw my friend sitting in the bar of the local hotel.

I went in and spoke to her at her table, and a few minutes later the manager said I couldn't stay unless I sat down. A couple left on the other side of the room and she cleaned the table for me, but I didn't want to shout across the room and left. I felt bad I hadn't looked at the rules about having to sit down, the manager could have had a fine.

Can honestly say, nothing personally. As a key worker it wasn’t daunting because I was mixing with people all the time.

As a 39 year old female, with no underlying health conditions, about 9 stone who never gets a cold, I genuinely felt like my risk was so minuscule, that I couldn’t get worked up about it.

I can understand why other people would under different circumstances. Ironic - because I’m a fucking nervous wreck about everything else in life!

I think my most insane moments which felt totally reasonable at the time were:

1. going to the corner shop for an Easter egg in first lockdown and then breaking down in tears to my bestie in case I had caught covid and would kill my mum or gran for the sake of some chocolate

2. spraying the cash I'd withdrawn with Dettol and turning each note over with kitchen tongs to spray the other side before I put it in my purse

The fact this now seems batshit makes me think we're getting back to normal?!

Buying a box of Milton in January 2020, as an anti a Covid measure. It stinks and I’m pretty sure I read that bleach was more effective than Milton, anyway. The Milton is still boxed up. I’m irrationally annoyed at new mothers I know, who claim they have no need for Milton. Why an earth can’t they take up bottle feeding, just to sterilise some bottles in my Milton?

Also wiped down a loaf of bread in diluted bleach. The bread bag had those anti suffocation holes, so the loaf was ruined. Cue me giving up bread for several weeks because it’s not actually Covid secure.

Cleaning my phone daily with a Milton wipe. Still doing this one!

Obsessively ordering hand wash and hand sanitiser from wherever I could, back when stocks were in short supply. Online orders from Avon, Superdrug, Boots, TKMaxx, M&S and all major supermarkets. It will take a few years to get through the stockpile I have acquired. In fact, the shortage was probably caused by me.

My personal favourite; for months, daily washing of all the light switches with bleach solution. They’re all ruined now and need replacing. Ditto the outside post box.

Wearing a hazmat suit while out in the open world before the "unofficial" start of the pandemic to stock up bulk purchasing long shelf life groceries while people looked on in astonishment. It was surreal as if on a movie set. I even got an old university air squadron bio nuclear warfare suit out of storage just in case! The following week news broke globally and the rest they say is history as I bulk purchased ahead of the pandemonium panic shopping scrum! Those clinical and construction industry face masks sourced early came in handy too as not available after I stocked up and a life saving game changer as “appreciative and thankful”(?) about the subsequent own goal British stupidity of arguments about medical safety functionality of masks! What a crazy past year. Much respect to those less fortunate and gratitude to our front line medical professionals! Never again so hands, face, space, trace, base and inoculate to contain and eradicate this once and forever!

@Torvean

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.

I am the same as you. Feel very lucky. Even went on holiday last year.

Took a sip of my take away coffee, as i strode across the busy petrol forecourt to my car - forgot i had a mask on - coffee all over my mask and down my coat. I bet everyone watching was having a right laugh. I just pretended nothing had happened and drove away.

I cried last May when a cyclist huffed on me whilst going passed. I'm In group 4 shielding, so was slightly terrified of being outside anyway. I didn't hear him so didn't move out of his way (rural roads no pavement). The threat felt very real at the time. Looking back I may have overreacted!

@ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia

Wearing a hazmat suit while out in the open world before the "unofficial" start of the pandemic to stock up bulk purchasing long shelf life groceries while people looked on in astonishment. It was surreal as if on a movie set. I even got an old university air squadron bio nuclear warfare suit out of storage just in case! The following week news broke globally and the rest they say is history as I bulk purchased ahead of the pandemonium panic shopping scrum! Those clinical and construction industry face masks sourced early came in handy too as not available after I stocked up and a life saving game changer as “appreciative and thankful”(?) about the subsequent own goal British stupidity of arguments about medical safety functionality of masks! What a crazy past year. Much respect to those less fortunate and gratitude to our front line medical professionals! Never again so hands, face, space, trace, base and inoculate to contain and eradicate this once and forever!

Bravery points for going full Hazmat suit. 😂

My husband and I did a big shop in late February, before C19 was really thought of as a thing here. We hit up a couple of different supermarkets, the last was an M&S food hall. Anyways we were wearing plastic gloves and using the self scan to avoid close contact. Trouble is, taking a piled high big trolley to the M&S self scanners is NOT a done thing. An elderly employee waddled over, stared slack-jawed at our gloves, and started jabbering on about how irregular this all was. She decided we were potential shoplifters and loudly announced to the other staff that she was keeping a close eye on us. 😂

In the week or so before lockdown I was working at school and couldn’t get a grocery delivery so was trying to buy food for myself and my two DSes at 5pm after work.The supermarket had more and more empty shelves each time I shopped.

One day, maybe the Thursday before lockdown, all the fresh meat was sold out, all the veg, potatoes, pasta, rice, bread. Shelves were bare! I managed to buy a big pie and a handful of Taste the Difference new potatoes. It was so surreal that I went home and cried.

The shops were all restocked within a few days, thank goodness but that one day seemed very frightening.

My mum to this day washes loose fruit and veg with anti-bacterial spray

my most ridiculous moment was opening a lighthearted thread on MN.

It was during the clap for NHS thing.

I had been doing some fitness stuff and noticed the when I jumped up and down my arse cheeks made a clapping sound. In a moment of frivolity I told my DP and we both laugher ourselves silly.

I innocently started a thread on MN about my arse clapping and it was immediately deleted. I felt bereft. What had I done to offend people so much?
But times were different, and nobody on MN would have know how deeply I respected the NHS. I just have a naughty sense of humour.

and fuck typos

I suffer from GAD and social distancing has been a god send to me.

What really fucked me over though, is back in 2019 I was managing to get my son to school without a panic attack leaving the house and then the government told me not to leave my house.

I didn't leave it for close to 6 months, no underlining health issues, just a really fucked up brain. I have only just managed to start leaving my house again without having a panic attack

I used to cling film my phone at work. Admittedly it was on a covid ward with inadequate PPE.

Didn't last long and all my photos came out somewhat cloudy . Ended up picking it up operating on an emergency case whose swab was a false negative so I cling filmed my phone for nothing

I never go to supermarkets, haven't for years as get big shopping delivered from Tesco and get meat and fruit/veg from local butcher and greengrocer. When the panic buying of loo roll started I was determined not to be part of it so I went online and ordered 20 flannels and a lidded bucket as an alternative. Luckily we never had to use them. The flannels are now being used as cleaning cloths.

I didn't do the wiping down of groceries but I did spray the front door with disinfectant every day.

Although some actions seem bonkers looking back, at the time we really didn't know what we were facing.

For a couple of months or so I ordered a pack of paracetamol with every online shop just in case I caught covid and was ill by myself at home. I stopped doing it when I had several boxes and showed no sign whatsoever of falling ill.

In the first lockdown I’d hold my breath whenever I went near someone

I lost 2 stone because I was terrified of being overweight if I got Covid

I disinfected all handles, letter box, bins, light switches every day. The really twattish thing though, is that I’d put a little note on the door for the postman, and bins for the binmen saying “This bin/letterbox has been disinfected for you!” Oh how I cringe now.

I also wanted to wipe the cats down with an anti bac wipe when they came in (again first lockdown) thankfully my DH told be I was being batshit and that was probably a bit dangerous for the cats 😳

Well, I still do sanitise shopping, wear mask and gloves when out shopping, leave post to stand, wash hands constantly, change clothes and put them in the wash after a day at work.
We also share a desk and computer at work, I sanitise all the desk, phone, computer, everything when I take over for my shift.

To be honest, I shall just carry on in future. I've always been fussy about 'germs' and before COVID did all my cleansing surreptitiously. Now I can do it blatantly and no-one bothers any more....!

The food shops in the run up to lockdown, going into Asda on the 18.03.20 , large queues, no pasta or toilet roll. Seeing it reported on social media that someone in Asda had been wearing swimming goggles and mask.

I don’t know, most of the things on here really aren’t silly or ridiculous. Definitely weren’t ridiculous in those dark early days of the first lockdown when nobody knew what was going on, it was near impossible to get food and toilet roll and the virus was a complete unknown.

My mum takes a long stick when she goes for a walk and swings it at anyone who comes too close. Now, THAT is OTT.

Wanting to wash sanitizer off my hands because it smelled strongly and I'm prone to migraine. Nipping to the loo to wash it off and being asked to sanitize again once I left the toilets.
I explained I'd sanitized then washed my hands and they couldn't possibly be any cleaner.... But apparently the bathroom door handle was a massive risk and the world would end if I didn't use the stinky stuff again.

The woman lectured me about how she was only trying to keep people safe..."including you"...well she's done such a good job, I've evaded covid for a full year now.

Mine is a bit sad.

Walking through shopping centre I October. Woman in a wheelchair calling out to passers by for help. I was the only one who went across to her. She just needed help putting her shopping bag on the handles of her wheel chair so you could move easier.
It just drove home weve lost a bit of humanity.