Some of the rules and adjustments seem silly

[Chickpeasorchips]

You might have your own. Ones which make no sense to me are:

• one way systems in non busy places, like you have to go in one entrance and out of another when the place is empty

• doorways being blocked off so everyone has to filter through one smaller doorway - surely this will make things worse not better?

• one way up and down steps on a spiral staircase, so you are told to walk up on the tiny bits of the treads in the centre

• alternate toilets and sinks being closed off, so everyone has to use fewer loos

I'm not blaming the business who are doing their best and have had to go to a lot of trouble and expense, but I do think that now a lot of these sillier rules should be done away with

they make perfect sense to me

I was in a Primark the other day and it was 2m spacing at the tills, yet people didn’t and it wasn’t enforced, and there was an entry/exit yet customers/staff were milling around without social distancing. I suppose it does seem silly , yet it allows the shops to stay open and that’s what’s important.

My favourite stupid rule is no sweat towels in gyms. I've started smuggling mine in.

One way entrance/exit into Tesco - but the way they've arranged it, rather than having one door as entrance and the door at the far end of the store as exit, has the far door blocked completely and they've tried to partition the main door into entrance and exit but the layout of that versus the layout of the carpark means people are just crossing over the "out" people to get to the "in" door and it really really doesn't work at all well.

One way stickers on the carpet at school - they didn't stick and the kids have had great fun changing them around to get random visitors lost (I admired the teenage spirit to be fair).

The one way system in supermarkets didn't seem to work..they wanted people in and out quickly yet you were meant to go down all asiles..then people would miss something and end up going the wrong way anyway. Know they had to be seen to be taking measures but it didn't work.

The best one I've heard I saw on here - kids not allowed to change their shoes / trainers at school any more. Still trying to work that one out!

no showers after swim pool... there are some changing cubicles with showers in them, although the shower heads were removed the taps still turn on. Guess which changing rooms I like to use, if only to rinse my suit off.

Automated no-touch ... but empty hand sanitiser machines. Those are my special pandemic favourites. They get touched loads by people trying to make them work.

We went to a zoo today, one of the indoor animals houses has two doors, one at each end - logically would be an "in" door and an "out" door. But no, one door was closed and the remaining door was both "in" and "out" but you had to stand on the right side. There were also two members of staff inside the building to explain the non-one way system, therefore increasing the number of people inside and making it much harder to social distance and to keep right.

I do agree some people of the new rules and set ups do make no sense what so ever.

I went to pop in to primark the other day, there was no one around I was stopped at the door and told it was the exit and I had to walk out of the shopping centre to the other side to the doors that they had marked entrance! I didn’t bother I only wanted to nip in and out not walk round the entire building just to get in.

Also noticed in the few shops I have been in that certain doors are blocked off, which means everyone is crammed more in other entrances/exits.

I am very interested to know if many of these stores meet the current fire regulations as I am pretty sure they don’t. Blocking off doors is very dangerous if a emergency exit is needed.

Also another one is restaurants when the waitress asks if you can take drink/food off the tray, even though they have just put it on the tray themselves to walk it to us

I returned a jumper to a shop.
Staff handled the jumper, receipt, gave both a good check over - yet they weren't allowed to touch their carrier bag that I'd returned it in.

I am a bit baffled about the one way system at my child school. In fact all one ways systems I have come across just seem to cause a bottle neck effect.

I am yet to come across one that actually seems to ‘control the flow of traffic’.

They all just seem to cause crowds.

One ways systems where it's safer to not follow it.

I was recently told I had to follow a one way system in a shop even though that meant going down a very busy aisle with packing boxes so that I had to squeeze past shop assistants who were shelf stacking.
Rather than go the "wrong way" for 2 seconds in a completely empty part of the shop.

My DC's school one way system is particularly hard work. There is one instance where DS has one lesson and then a lesson that is in the classroom literally next door. But he has to go to the end of the corridor, up 2 flights of steps, along the whole length of the top corridor, back down 2 flights of steps, round another block of classrooms and back down his original corridor. DS doesn't bother and once had a huge argument with a teacher over it, which has only meant that he now checks who is outside before exiting the classroom.

After Wimbledon, Ascot and the football shenanigans, it all seems silly to me. #ImDone

@Flowerlane you weren’t in york were you? They did that to me! Pointless!!

Pre covid we used to wait in the school playground for the primary school dc to come out. Plenty of space. Now we are all crowd on a small bit of pavement because we aren’t allowed in.

Restaurants where most people eating outside...you have to walk past all the outside tables to queue inside to walk through restaurant to get outside (previously you queued next to the outside bit but the gap for outside entry is now sealed off). Outside area is now barricaded around. Bizarre.

I enjoyed my experience today at the restaurant in a famous Surrey based garden. Queue to go in , not because it was busy, it was 10% occupied but because the poor guy on the door had a 5 min speil per customer as to what we could/ couldn’t do and we had to write down our details and then he allocated us a table where we had to sit.
Still at least we could choose what we wanted at the counter unlike our experience last weekend in Covent Garden where we also had to queue 20 mins to go in and then we’re told exactly where to sit (right next to someone else) then had to order on an app that didn’t work and WiFi kept dropping out and we forgot to order any drinks. Then as food was coming from different kiosks it all came at different times and my husbands never came at all. What a palaver!

[quote Nhsisfucked]@Flowerlane you weren’t in york were you? They did that to me! Pointless!![/quote]
@Nhsisfucked no I wasn’t, must be a primark thing then

@GentlemanJackie

Pre covid we used to wait in the school playground for the primary school dc to come out. Plenty of space. Now we are all crowd on a small bit of pavement because we aren’t allowed in.

Same here. So damn pointless.

I was in Specsavers today and in the (tiny, non-ventilated) area there were some seats to sit down on. On each seat was a laminated sign saying "I'm clean" that you were asked to turn over when you got up so that they said "Clean me".

It didn't make sense to me as the only thing in contact with the chair (there were no arms) was my clothed bottom and yet I was then asked to touch a sign that had been touched countless times and not cleaned. The chairs were being cleaned (because clothed bottoms somehow transmit viruses to the next clothed bottom that sits on them?) but the laminated signs that everyone was asked to touch (and therefore much more likely to transmit a virus) weren't ever cleaned. Madness.

I also pointed out that their alcohol gel at the door had run out but no one seemed to care, and the optician while wearing gloves spent loads of time scratching his greasy hair before touching all of the equipment.

I find it pretty scary how little people seem to understand about good hygiene practices.

I think one way systems should go unless it can be proved that they work, because I haven't seen a good one, and for the stress it causes there is no actual benefit.

Blocking off doors is very dangerous if a emergency exit is needed. Hadn't thought of this but it's a good point.
I just don't get the doorway thing - eg everyone has to enter and exit a shop via one door rather than two. How's that helping

So many examples of silly rules on here. Is it just a case of companies trying to show they are doing something?

When rugby players were social distancing whilst singing the national anthems, but obviously up in each others faces when playing

Well I suppose with the rugby example one is avoidable contact and the other isn't.