Will you go shopping on the high street now?

[trystan]

Then a younger woman appeared behind me and went to push past.  I jumped out of the way and said "Can you keep your distance please?" to which she replied crossly,  "Well are you going to move, or are you just going to stand there?".  I pointed out that I was waiting for the customer in front to move, so I could go forward, and she started rolling her eyes and huffing and sighing deeply as though I had lost my reason.  So I turned her into a frog.  That'll teach her.

Well that toad her.

[Greensleeves]

Well that toad her.

 

[trystan]

Many thanks . 

[pharmaT]

Then a younger woman appeared behind me and went to push past.  I jumped out of the way and said "Can you keep your distance please?" to which she replied crossly,  "Well are you going to move, or are you just going to stand there?".  I pointed out that I was waiting for the customer in front to move, so I could go forward, and she started rolling her eyes and huffing and sighing deeply as though I had lost my reason.  So I turned her into a frog.  That'll teach her.

Well that toad her.

Wish that was actually possible.  When I went for bread the other day a woman went the wrong way down the one way system and proudly announced "I actually need to go the other way but it's more important to use my right to freedom of expression".  I wish I had rights, not to go the wrong way but I'd like to have the right to be safe.

[Maiden Stone]

Then a younger woman appeared behind me and went to push past.  I jumped out of the way and said "Can you keep your distance please?" to which she replied crossly,  "Well are you going to move, or are you just going to stand there?".  I pointed out that I was waiting for the customer in front to move, so I could go forward, and she started rolling her eyes and huffing and sighing deeply as though I had lost my reason. 

Wish that was actually possible.  When I went for bread the other day a woman went the wrong way down the one way system and proudly announced "I actually need to go the other way but it's more important to use my right to freedom of expression".  I wish I had rights, not to go the wrong way but I'd like to have the right to be safe.

Greensleeves. if it is a time meant for older or vulnerable people, have you drawn it to the attention of management?
Pharma, your right to be safe trumps the right of the other woman.
 I admit that I have occasionally walked the wrong way up an aisle, usually by mistake. If I've done it deliberately it's because I've forgotten an item from that aisle and only if there are no other customers around.
I waited for a young man ahead of me to move from where he was standing, alternatively contemplating sandwiches and his phone, until I gave up on the remainder of that aisle.

[ThrelfallYorky]

"Did" the weekly supermarket this morning - the barriers outside have been re-jigged, thus the walk is twice as long, looping round on itself, but I supposed that as there was just me there, walking briskly, it counted as exercise?
Inside: there'll always be idiots, and from time to time I've been that idiot, backtracking for cream after seeing some luscious English strawberries that OH would love! (I don't eat them at all, but he delights in good ones)
-But I do try to do it efficiently and safely. It's the staff on the shop floor I feel really sorry for, you'd have thought I gave one girl a birthday present when I stood back and gestured her and the stock trolley through, poor lass. I got a lovely smile and a thank you that sped me round rest of the "ordeal by shelves".

[suey]

Yippity yip yip yip I got a Tesco home delivery slot, next Tuesday afternoon...gosh the excitement 😁😁.
Sad really but this is the first time I’ve been successful since lockdown.  I’m not hitting the high street, by that I mean town or supermarket shopping and I shall continue to shop locally for perishables. 
The scenes at beaches again today make me want to cry.  So many of us have and are being so careful and those mindless idiots could be throwing the country back into crises 😢

[Romilly]

Agree about the beaches suey...

The other important point to remember is that no public toilets are open, and so one doesn’t want to dwell on what they left behind, - in addition to the litter:-(

Romilly.

[louisa maud]

Have said this before  but if people can flock shoulder to shoulder to the beach they could be back at work at a reasonable distance, the pictures in the papers today made me very annoyed, yes, most of us have behaved sensibly,  us over 70' s are still meant to be sensible yet the youngsters let us down

My delivery due tomorrow, only second delivery during lockdown,  think I have discovered when slots are released!!


Louisa Maud