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If the till aisle is as narrow like that again, I won't enter it @Annb
Or I will go back to what we did during the initial COVID restrictions and lockdowns and wait at the entrance of that till aisle until the previous person has exited and paid for their till goods and moved away before I enter.
 
I probably won't be able to mentally enter that store again. I had a parallel thought going on in my head when I realized almost everyone had exited the shop and I was still extricating myself (bear in mind all this took seconds), was where are all the 'so called' disabled people that were parked in the 20 disabled spots in front of the shop? They legged it out of the shop faster than an Olympic runner?
I still don't believe it.
Since COVID 2019 started, many of the small shops that provided chilled goods, eg a butcher providing cold meats, have all closed down @LivingLightly

I never used a supermarket before COVID broke out, because I never found them to be disabled friendly.
 
Fbg 7.2 this morning.
I have not been in a supermarket for over a year now I shop on line and have it delivered this saves me struggling with parking and getting wheelchair or mobility scooter in and out of the car or having navigate my way around with crowds of people hemming me in it also frees me from impulse buying.
@gennepher about your problem with being unable to hold umbrella and use walking sticks have you ever considered an umbrella hat?
 
Didn't know
Didn't know there was one in reality, thought it was an imaginary thing @JohnEGreen
Just googled...
You mean something like this?
And if you don't like the person next to you (because that top bit looks like a dish which holds water) then just tip your head....
 
Good morning everyone on a drizzly start to Bastille Day here in the dark and dangerous north. “Off with their heads!” 5.8 again this a.m. seems like a popular reading for my scales of Anubis - wonder if they are stuck? Lots of shops and petrol stations closing early today for one reason or the other so best get any errands run and panic buy mince pies and Spanish beer (for balance). I suspect a riot. Mainly unsupervised today as Mrs Miggins is off to one of those dreadful baby showers. A niece. It’s over an hour away so she will be out most of the afternoon I think. Got a new supply of those ‘diabetic socks’ this week. Regulation length and the ‘invisible’ trainer ones so I will entertain myself by sorting out my sock and smalls drawer and then contact my underpanter at Gieves and Hawkes for any additional supplies . Art bit, a tree of course! Hope your day is a smasher. All the best to representatives of The Beautiful Game ️ and hope that the final result does not mirror the rugby from yesterday. Koffy - must dash out and bulk buy some koffy!
 

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Yes something like that the ones on Amazon are a bit different I have seen while watching Wimbledon people wearing them,there is also a kind of strap you can wear that will hold an umbrella also.
 
5.4 this morning. We are going to be lazy and have a relaxing day at home today. Mr K had a tummy upset in the week and although he has completely recovered a restful day will do him the world of good.

I am looking forward to watching the video of Friday's course which Bodycontrol Pilates has already sent me.
 
Morning all on a very bright, sunny start to Trinity 7 here in L.A. I slept very well last night which was probably inevitable after Friday's omnishambles of a sleep. @JohnEGreen a belated happy birthday to Judith and I hope Wednesday is a fitting celebration. @gennepher that supermarket experience does seem to me to be a perfect summary of where GB is after basically a generation of sauve qui peut/dog eat dog/the devil take the hindmost. It is wrong and like most here I’'m hugely sympathetic and angry on your behalf. Shocked and saddened but not surprised. I hope the football ends in a win for Southgate's multi-cultural, tolerant, dare I say woke, team because they more accurately reflect the better angels of our nature. There aren’t any trust fund, entitled types in that team and so what if they are handsomely paid?. A win for them will, imho, close the chapter on the era of QEii, especially the last decade and a half or so of politically motivated shoddily mythologised pseudo-history and have the potential to start the C21st in the UK. Tonight's football match has the potential to define UK Plc far more than the recent election - imho. Elsewhere, I may not like Trump but I pray he is ok and that that incident wasn’t the start of something terrible. Anyhow, y'all deserve a rest from me but God bless and protect you now and always.
 
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Just a passing thought are not supermarkets supposed to have fire marshals who are meant to ensure that everyone has left the premises and to assist disabled and pregnant people to exit safely in an emergency?
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I would think that that is the case. Local Fire and Rescue Services are responsible for visiting to ensure that H&S regulations are adhered to. I guess that this authority are the ones to inform if something is amiss.
 
Thank you for sharing the wonderful art. A tree?

Sorry - well, just a tad.
I'll google diabetic socks but I do love me those bamboo invisible trainer socks, poseur that I am. Best rush to the shops because if England win Monday may see one very hung over nation washing away a 14 year nightmare. I don't have Gieves and Hawkes underwear but their linen shirts and shorts are de rigueur for the modern County Set when en fete in warm weather, fit wonderfully and feel very comfortable. We Grumpy Old Men aren't the demographic for baby showers or cake smashes. Do you not see the irony in we two bewailing the recently elected nightmare for Clacton whilst howling at the moon over the modern world? No? Just me then. I'll leave it with you.
 
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Thanks @ianpspurs

People, that is shop assistants and customers have one thought in their heads and that is to save their own bacon. It is never any different and never will be. I can remember off hand well over half a dozen alarms in shops and public establishments. I never heard any of them with being profoundly deaf. Visual clues for me was the whole crowd in a sudden blind panic, not caring one jot if someone fell to the floor, they would trample over them, not even caring if it was a child or a baby.

The worst one for me was about the mid 1970's in Liverpool when there were b**b scares. I was in Kwik Save in LIverpool city centre (Hanover St) and my eldest daughter was in her pram which I had got down step by step into Kwik Save. Done my shopping, and was pulling it up step by step up the two short flights of steps back to Hanover St.

Suddenly all the customers, the store was packed, came rushing towards the stairs. I presume the siren alert for b**b alert had sounded, but I didn't know at the time. People were in a panic, pushing each other out of the way, not caring if they fell. I am going backwards up the steps pulling the pram up step by step. The pram with my baby daughter got knocked out of my hands and the crowd trampled over it. A mother is a tiger in the face of danger. I shoved people over, and got my baby out of the pram. I then clung on to the railings of the staircase with my baby to my chest, until the worst of the panicked crowd pushed past. Then I still had to cling on to the railings and got out. I was in stunned shock the whole walk back back home. My purse was lost with the pram which was now trampled and mangled. (A purse doesn't hold your whole life in it as it does now.).

I never used a pram after that day. It was always a baby carrier after that. Even when I had two more babies, there was the older one on my back, and the smaller baby on the front.

People never change, they never will in my experience in panicked crowds of people. And strangely Saturday's experience at the supermarket they panicked, instead of walking in an orderly manner out of the store. There was no visual or smell of any crisis to be seen. The store assistants were the first running out...

When there is a planned fire drill, the shop assistants don't panic, but walk leisurely out.

This was not a planned fire drill. How do I know? I may be profoundly deaf, but I am a darn good lip reader. After about 20 minutes or so after I had got outside, I was still besides the shop entrance, I didn't have the energy to walk any further. There was a woman came out, maybe a boss or secretary (she wore high heeled Louboutins). Then awhile later a man came out (from his clothing, a boss?). The lady's back was to me, but the man faced me almost directly. His body language was such that he was lowering his voice to speak quietly and looked either side before speaking to make sure no one could hear him...it was a fire door he said, and it took so long to find it because it had been shut again....

Obviously in a real crisis, which this was to the store because they didn't know what it was, they are useless right up to management level. I am working on a letter now, and am debating whether to name and shame them online...

I was speaking to my daughter in Australia via Skype (I lipread, use captions, and WhatsApp to make anything clear that I cannot figure out) this morning, the one who was that baby in the pram that day 50 years ago. She said I had to do anything that would cause the store to take attention and do something now about their obviously appalling lack of protocol in emergencies.

I am still upset now thinking about that day 50 years ago, and so was my daughter. I will never get over that.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
Just a passing thought are not supermarkets supposed to have fire marshals who are meant to ensure that everyone has left the premises and to assist disabled and pregnant people to exit safely in an emergency?
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Thank you @JohnEGreen
There was none of that going on as I walking to the entrance, all shop staff had left at that point. I did look sideways down the aisles to see if there was, and none of that took place.
 
dunelm said:
I would think that that is the case. Local Fire and Rescue Services are responsible for visiting to ensure that H&S regulations are adhered to. I guess that this authority are the ones to inform if something is amiss.
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Thank you @dunelm for your continued thoughts on this.
You are helping me formulate my letter to the store.
And giving ideas of who else to contact. I can now think of a couple more.

With talking on Skype with my daughter this morning, see my reply to @ianpspurs for a longer explanation of this, she was very aware she might have died that day, and never grown up from babyhood to adulthood and had her husband and children of today...I have told her all this years ago.
 
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An amazing tree @dunelm
You are making me want to draw trees again....
 
Wear that at times in Cumbria and dunelm will get it come down on his side of the Pennines.
D.
 
Another Watkins to the rescue - is it an omen? May not be LC but very much in line with how people have always survived. No one (sane) says give us this day our daily cloud bread Right there in Norwich @Krystyna23040 . Of course another well known East Anglian - well, this here backward Fenland actually - University may be involved but I couldn't possibly reference that one. It is science though so I wouldn't get your hopes up
 
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Thank you @ianpspurs - yes those bamboo ones are very good. Just wondering whilst out in the rain this morning if I am the only one thinking that it is St Swithin’s day tomorrow
 
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