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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gennepher" data-source="post: 2231000" data-attributes="member: 238814">Fbg 6.9I met a friend yesterday. We met in McDonald's.I was prepared as I have been the last few weeks. Before we sat down, I wiped the chairs and table down with antibacterial wipes. The worker in McDonald's was cleaning surfaces so half heartedly she would be spreading anything...She just dabbed a couple of places on the touch ordering screens with her cloth. Absolutely useless. She glared at me.There was not one customer in McDonald's. My friend and I were the only ones. It is normally packed with customers sitting down, and take aways. The drive-in, however, did have a long queue of cars.I gave my friend her birthday presents and card (which I had printed). Her birthday present was was some bandanas (which she had asked for), a couple of hand gel sanitisers (she had said she couldn't find any, but I found a couple of larger containers yesterday of which a whole pile had just that moment come into the shop and there were no restrictions but every customer just took two bottles and I decanted them into  easy to carry bottles), then a large packet of antibacterial wipes for her, as well as a small packet of tissues. She had no idea of the routine I have been doing these last two weeks, with wiping any public surface, with antibacterial wipes, I sit down at. I also explained my routine when I use any public toilet. She hadn't thought about all the surfaces that could be infected, as well as lift buttons etc etc. We went round the shops, some of which were completely empty. It is so much easier driving my mobility scooter round an empty shop. I still had a few more things I needed.Then we went for a coffee somewhere else. And she was getting the hang of it by now. By using the sanitiser each time we entered and left a shop, because she was picking up stuff in the shop and putting it down the way she usually does when she is browsing. I don't, I just look and only touch when I am buying something and I have my gloves on. And she did the table and chairs with the wipes before we sat down. She went to get the coffee, but carried it back on a tray.  I asked her how many people had touched and used that tray (I've never seen those trays wiped between use), so out came her hand sanitiser again...I also always wear gloves out of the house, and wash them each time I come home.There were some people a few tables away in this second place who stared at us for using antibacterial wipes and hand sanitiser.While we were in the ladies toilet we saw a woman come out of the toilet cubicle and she never washed her hands, so her dirty hands were on the toilet door, then on the door handle to get out of the toilet. My friend had been touching handles before that without realising other people were really not hygienic. I use elbow to turn tap handles on etc. But toilet door was inwards one so you needed to grasp the handle...out came tissues again to open the door, but where do you put the tissue, yes I want to bin it, but where? I don't want to put it in my pocket...I needed that time out of the bungalow today because Monday is still affecting me very badly with that weird Amazon delivery guy scaring me.  Psychologically I felt so much better yesterday when I got back home, after being out a few hours. I needed to go out and distance myself from my bungalow. I won't be taking the parcels from any more Amazon delivery guys, they can leave them outside in the safe place. In fact I won't be answering the door to anyone I don't know, whether they have a parcel or not.But while I was in the cafe with my friend, I looked on my phone to see where the amazon parcel was that was coming yesterday. The delivery person was one stop away. So I showed my friend (she doesn't do internet or amazon and I end up ordering stuff for her), and she was amazed you could see that!!! Anyway, we watched the dot reach my house from round the corner, and you could see it move up my driveway from the road where he had initially stopped with his vehicle. But the dot stayed at my front door. Which was a little strange seeing as it should have been just a letterbox delivery. 5 minutes later the dot is still at my front door. I am literally 40 miles away. So all I can do is watch. At this point I am wishing I had a spy cam on my property. My friend asks is it the same weird delivery guy. I haven't a clue, but this is unnerving me. 10 minutes later the red dot is still at my front door. Then finally the message comes through that the item has been posted through my letterbox. My friend tells me to be careful when I get home. So when I get home, I am checking apprehensively. The packet was on the table just underneath the letterbox (I have a table there to catch the mail, because I can't bend down to the floor to pick up stuff), but my postman mail was on the floor in front of the table. Unusual, because even when another person puts stuff through the letter box, junk mail for example, it lands on top of the postman mail. So, I cannot help but wonder if the Amazon delivery person was trying to reach through the letterbox, and I am only wondering that, because the info on the delivery map showed the delivery guy at my front door for at least 10 minutes. Normally the Amazon delivery person is on and off my property in less than a minute, and then he goes off my screen once the item has been delivered. I ordered an item for my friend last night and it is coming this morning. I am apprehensive. It is too big for letterbox, so this means it will have to be left in my safe place. I am not answering.This will be the last Amazon order for awhile, I am not ordering anything more from them for the moment, or they will have to go to my local collection point, but quite a few items cannot be delivered to my collection point.  They have to come to my address.I have go out to sort out my prescription meds today. And I have thought of a couple more bits of shopping I can do while I am out.You all have a good day, the best you can.Take care.</blockquote>

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