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Market Friday - I'm in a Bad Dream! by ellenripley

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· @ellenripley · (edited)
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Market Friday - I'm in a Bad Dream!
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I went to a local coffee shop with a friend of mine this morning. This sign made us laugh. My friend is a wheelchair user so he's sat down all the time!  He was so pleased he didn't have to wear a mask. πŸ˜†

My friend takes his own cup as he has a hand impairment.  He finds it easier to hold.  Today, they refused to touch his cup.  I had to pour the coffee from their cup into his cup.  Remarkably, I didn't spill a drop.  Quite an achievement for Miss Accident Prone!  



I then had to fill in a track and trace form.  We were amazed as the cafe staff told another customer to borrow the pen that I'd just used.  Hygeine was soon forgotten!  After we left, the staff picked up my cup that I'd obviously touched, so I  don't understand why they refused to touch my friend's cup??  Everyone seems to accept these contrary rules. I feel as though I'm in a world of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds! 

https://images.hive.blog/DQmfH9qU4TSsb6YkmVS6foaxXz4qhyAfgT7PnzeqTVLVbUV/P1010973.JPG

After we stopped laughing, we went around the charity shop.  It is called 'The Hanger' and all proceeds go to the Air Ambulance Charity.  Near the changing rooms,  they have some great looking seats that are out of an aircraft.  If I had a bigger flat I'd want these for gaming.  I'm not a gamer but it would encourage me to take up a new hobby. πŸ™‚

https://images.hive.blog/DQmf4gvesybenu5UEq95MSgsqoKTF5CYyN5kURhhaA57jki/20201016_124328.jpg

At one minute past midnight tonight, my region will go into Tier 2 which is high.  Strangely, we don't have a low tier,  only a middle, high and very high just to hype it up a bit.  Today, I was allowed to meet my friend in his house and then call at the cafe.  Tomorrow is a no no and I turn into a pumpkin!

#marketfriday initiated by @dswigle.

Photos by @ellenripley  - Julie S.  All rights reserved.
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@dswigle ·
Contradictions for sure. I'm not sure anybody really knows which is the right thing to do. I believe everybody thinks that they are doing the best, which really confounds the next person down the line, who also thinks they are are doing the right thing. 

How to play Devil's Advocate, but I have seen places refuse people's personal cups way before covid. While I don't necessarily agree with it, it's usually big name places as opposed to little cafes with do it. I'm usually not offended by it because I guess they're not sure how I clean my cup no, but I can understand being miffed about it especially with their contradicting little rules they have.

I hope in some ways that you got a little bit of a laugh out of it and rest assured that the UK is not the only ones. I can say that the only annoying thing is that the rules vary from store to store so you have to be armed and ready to change at a moment's notice. And then there are those countries to have zero social distancing or masks or sanitizer they're probably far ahead of ours. I would have been so tempted to get those Airline seats and I'm not even a gamer. I just like the cool Factor. That was a glorious pumpkin and I hope he's yours. Thank you as always for your wonderful post. they just Delight the hell right out of me!

#MarketFriday loves you!

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@ellenripley ·
I'm glad my daft ramblings delight you,  it's really nice to know.  Costa Coffee have been brilliant.  They even clear my friend's pipe tobacco out of the bottom of his cup lol.  He's an embarrassment! 😁
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@jayna ·
Wow, the rules are kind of ridiculous. I think no one really knows what they are doing. At the end of the day, I decide for myself that we are all Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds during this pandemic. Everything is bizarre! But at least if people are trying to do *something* it's better than being in complete denial and endangering everyone.
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@kaminchan · (edited)
That’s a nice big pumpkin! 
People are driven by fear so their heads have become quite confused and illogical at times! It’s the same here, lots of contradictions.
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@ellenripley ·
I decided not to say anything.  I get fed up of getting into arguments when I just want a simple cup of coffee.  πŸ˜Šβ˜•
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@kaminchan ·
That’s the best approach to peaceful living! People would not change until the penny dropped!

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@phoenixwren ·
Yeah - here a bunch of stores now won't touch your cloth bags, but you can usually do it yourself and just refuse their bags.  But like - how is the plastic - which coronavirus supposedly lives on the longest - that has been exposed to all these hundreds of people passing through the checkout line and workers handling it - supposed to be safer than my cloth bags that I put through the frikkin' washing machine?
So many of the rules are just security theater.  Social distancing?  Yes.  Masks?  Yes.  But wasteful rules about cups and bags?  Nah.
It seems that Trader Joe's finally got the memo because after months of refusing to touch your cloth bags, they have signs up that now they will handle them again.
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@ellenripley ·
I'm glad it's not just the UK!  It can take the enjoyment out of meeting up with people.  I'm glad Trader Joe has seen sense.  It wouldn't be so bad if all the shops have the same rules but they don't.
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@ellenripley ·
Thank you!
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