Are you sitting outside when meeting friends?

[ParrotsAteThemAll]

If a friend was coming to your house for a coffee and chat but announced on arrival they would only sit outside how would you feel? They are not CEV, double vax and awaiting booster, person the are visiting is triple vaxxed and negative LFT. They are not isolating, still working, shopping and fit and well.

This is in the UK.

Absolutely not.

Is your house really really horrible Otherwise, nope, I'd think they'd lost the plot to be honest.

No I wouldn’t be. Why has she not had her booster yet?

It was a very cold and wet day, would you sit outside or suggest sitting inside but a good 2 meters apart?

No

@ParrotsAteThemAll

It was a very cold and wet day, would you sit outside or suggest sitting inside but a good 2 meters apart?

I'd develop a migraine and send them on their way

Yes, I'd be fine wth that

Then again I have a garden umbrella and fleecy blankets (and hot water bottles!) so wouldn't be wet or cold.

No. Meeting inside. Hugging, cheek kissing and shaking hands.

Not sure why they she hasn’t had booster yet.
She got angry and stormed off!
I thinks it’s crazy and very controlling!

No

And I'm a gardener and live garden chat. I'd take a walk round for a look but that's all

*love

No way I’d be sitting outside in the cold and wet! It was bad enough having to do that when we weren’t allowed in to other people’s homes, no way I’d volunteer to do it when we don’t have to.

It's absolutely miserable outside here today, so no way. Actually I don't believe anyone would.

No, I'd think she was mad in this weather! I'd probably go along with it but would be quietly annoyed that she hadn't discussed it before coming.

I'd say you're most welcome to sit in the garden, I'll be on the sofa in the living room!

I wouldn't do this but I do have a couple of friends who are quite anxious who might ask to sit outside. If they were my friend, of course I would do that for them. Of my friends who might ask to sit outside, two are because their partners have cancer and one because they have an underlying condition and were always a quite stressed person.

No it's freezing! If it was warm and sunny then happy to obviously but not in the depths of winter ffs.

I'd think we'd gone back in time to the beginning of the pandemic! I'd be cancelling that one.

@AuntieStella Why though? Don’t you feel it’s unnecessary and paranoid?

As the saying goes there’s nowt so queer as folk.

Am I heck in this weather. If they insisted on meeting outside I'd say no.

@AlexaShutUp

No, I'd think she was mad in this weather! I'd probably go along with it but would be quietly annoyed that she hadn't discussed it before coming.

I might’ve been less annoyed if it had been discussed before but it wasn’t, even if it was I probably would’ve cancelled or suggested something else.

No, not in this weather.

I did before Christmas, because that is what we had agreed to do, when arranging the meet up with someone who is clinically vulnerable, and I'd be quite happy to on a warm May afternoon or a sunny August evening.
Today it has been persisting down where we are. It is cold and we are on the cusp of another named storm, so no, I wouldn't.

If a friend feels they need to do that then they need to flag it up before arranging the date.

@Bouledeneige

I wouldn't do this but I do have a couple of friends who are quite anxious who might ask to sit outside. If they were my friend, of course I would do that for them. Of my friends who might ask to sit outside, two are because their partners have cancer and one because they have an underlying condition and were always a quite stressed person.

I totally understand that and would’ve been very accommodating had that been the case, but it wasn’t.

Crazy, I wouldn’t follow that