Over the years many of my posts have featured my local Sainsbury’s supermarket, so it’s nice to see that the checkout ‘girls’, the shelf stackers and the rest of the staff survived the ‘bog roll blitz’ panic at the start of the Coronavirus outbreak, and are still hard at work helping the likes of me to stay “fed and watered”: and I must compliment the management on the way they have organised the store to give as much protection as possible to both staff and customers. I’m pleased to say that the majority of shoppers seem to know and obey the rules of ‘social distancing’ etc. when buying their ‘basic necessities’.
Note that I say “the majority”, because this morning I found my clearly marked ‘safe space’ at the checkout ‘invaded’ by Mummy and Daddy Moron, while junior ‘Brat’ Moron was running up and down the adjacent aisles. The pair each had only one or two items to check out and, luckily, they noticed my overflowing trolley (cart) and ran off in separate directions to ‘keep company’ with two other unfortunate shoppers!
I could be wrong, but I find some people’s behaviour, during this time of world wide suffering, as very strange indeed. Many seem, like the family in the supermarket, to be completely oblivious to the changes taking place around them, while others seem to be suffering from what I call the “Jolly Wally Syndrome”, which reveals itself in all that social media “Look at me ! Look at me !” showing off; together with what appears to be the ‘over the top’ enjoyment of those “all join in” singalongs and puerile TV game shows: and how all those much loved ‘has been’ entertainers performing in their back gardens and kitchens, and all those awful ‘celeb’ cooking and exercising egotists are supposed to ‘lift our spirits’ is beyond my comprehension.
I’m going to stop now, because I just ‘Googled’ .. “self-isolation” .. and was shocked to discover that you can now buy funny …
… “Self-Isolation” greetings cards !
bigjohn 
