Pandemic personal consequences

[MickiQ]

Crisis has took a while to start kicking the Q's but it's making up for lost time now, Son's house purchase has fallen through since the guy he was going to buy off can now no longer move since the one in chain above him has pulled out, he is/was self-employed and his business has apparently gone through the floor, Son reckons he is probably out a couple of grand.
Son's GF moved in with us at end of Feb in the expectation that it would be temporary whilst they were waiting to complete but the Saturdays (Mrs Q nickname for G/F's old housemates) have found a replacement, so it looks like we will have her living here for a while. Mrs Q really likes G/F and thinks she is the best thing that has ever happened to our son, I just hope that as 3 or 4 weeks stretch into many months that opinion won't change.
On the bright side G/F returned home from work to tell us that the Saturdays were having trouble getting basic supplies so Mrs Q has authorised Son and G/F to do a supply run with a bag of stuff even including a 9 roll pack of the precious. I did tell Mrs Q that this proves she has a soft heart but she says one of the Saturdays works in the ICU and if there is a queue for ventilators it doesn't hurt to be tight with the person in charge of handing them out.

 

[xes]

Vogue magazine said a product we make at work can help you not get the virus. (we do NOT make this claim!) Needless to say, sales are going through the roof and we can't get any more of an ingredient that comes from NZ.

 

[klang]

Vogue magazine said a product we make at work can help you not get the virus. (we do NOT make this claim!) Needless to say, sales are going through the roof and we can't get any more of an ingredient that comes from NZ.

I know of a shop in Finsbury Park that has Kiwis a-plenty. PM for details.

 

[xes]

I know of a shop in Finsbury Park that has Kiwis a-plenty. PM for details.

It's an essential oil type thing. Nothing common that people might randomly have. (but thanks!) we've got an alternative coming, we're going to have to see when it turns up if it's ok to use. (they vary wildly and my boss has a very good nose for it)

It's an aromatherapy product (I work for hippies!)

 

[klang]

It's an essential oil type thing. Nothing common that people might randomly have. (but thanks!) we've got an alternative coming, we're going to have to see when it turns up if it's ok to use. (they vary wildly and my boss has a very good nose for it)

It's an aromatherapy product (I work for hippies!)

there goes my little ray of hope that kiwis might be the answer to all our problems.

 

[a_chap]

Nipped into Waitrose to try to find something - anything - for dinner.

A dry crust of bread, a piece of stale cheese, maybe an overlooked tin of beans? Nothing....

Except their most expensive brand of scampi. Of which there was LOADS! So that's what I was forced to cook.

How long will this nightmare last???

 

[xes]

Nipped into Waitrose to try to find something - anything - for dinner.

A dry crust of bread, a piece of stale cheese, maybe an overlooked tin of beans? Nothing....

Except their most expensive brand of scampi. Of which there was LOADS! So that's what I was forced to cook.

How long will this nightmare last???

Find an older person who needs help shopping. You can go in with them on Thursday morning and help them and you. This mornings senior hour was chaos, but we got some bits.

 

[a_chap]

Find an older person who needs help shopping. You can go in with them on Thursday morning and help them and you. This mornings senior hour was chaos, but we got some bits.

I suggested to the wife, this morning, that she'd probably be able sneak in as an "older person" and do some panic-buying.

Fortunately I'm working from home right now which means no-one can see my black eye...

 

[spanglechick]

Not unsurprisingly, boyfriend has lost his job. As a builder of many years experience but zero certification, he works on a rung of employment beneath the zero hours contract. He has no contract. (and no bank account, and none of the documentation to get one).

we are fucked. Thank god for my public sector income.

 

[extra dry]

Crisis has took a while to start kicking the Q's but it's making up for lost time now, Son's house purchase has fallen through since the guy he was going to buy off can now no longer move since the one in chain above him has pulled out, he is/was self-employed and his business has apparently gone through the floor, Son reckons he is probably out a couple of grand.
Son's GF moved in with us at end of Feb in the expectation that it would be temporary whilst they were waiting to complete but the Saturdays (Mrs Q nickname for G/F's old housemates) have found a replacement, so it looks like we will have her living here for a while. Mrs Q really likes G/F and thinks she is the best thing that has ever happened to our son, I just hope that as 3 or 4 weeks stretch into many months that opinion won't change.
On the bright side G/F returned home from work to tell us that the Saturdays were having trouble getting basic supplies so Mrs Q has authorised Son and G/F to do a supply run with a bag of stuff even including a 9 roll pack of the precious. I did tell Mrs Q that this proves she has a soft heart but she says one of the Saturdays works in the ICU and if there is a queue for ventilators it doesn't hurt to be tight with the person in charge of handing them out.

Politics of power, I

It's an essential oil type thing. Nothing common that people might randomly have. (but thanks!) we've got an alternative coming, we're going to have to see when it turns up if it's ok to use. (they vary wildly and my boss has a very good nose for it)

It's an aromatherapy product (I work for hippies!)

Diluted oil. It will be interesting to see the results. How is it supposed to work? Just asking as stuck in doors.

 

[bimble]

This is very minor stuff but its making personal strife in my friendship with my neighbours. He's a yoga teacher, really good one, teaches at home in their own little (cramped) studio and I just had to say I am not coming anymore for the foreseeable. He's refusing to do anything like consider going online somehow or even clean the equipment between the many classes so its a no from me. He obviously thinks i'm overreacting and its really uncomfortable. They have asked me to look after their dog for the weekend which is usually a pleasure but i think i might be going in there with gloves and overalls on now

 

[zora]

This is very minor stuff but its making personal strife in my friendship with my neighbours. He's a yoga teacher, really good one, teaches at home in their own little (cramped) studio and I just had to say I am not coming anymore for the foreseeable. He's refusing to do anything like consider going online somehow or even clean the equipment between the many classes so its a no from me. He obviously thinks i'm overreacting and its really uncomfortable. They have asked me to look after their dog for the weekend which is usually a pleasure but i think i might be going in there with gloves and overalls on now

Not minor at all! I reckon similar stuff is creating huge tension among a lot of people. I am feeling a bit like this in my flatshare (though I hasten to add, it's nothing like as extreme as your example, and I know that I am at the very paranoid end of things), and obviously we will be living in much closer quarters than usual for a while, by virtue of always being in! Yesterday we had a good chat where we kind of agreed that we probably each could to with a litte more of the other's perspective, which was a huge relief, because the dynamic was stressing me enormously.

 

[bimble]

Yep these interpersonal things are tricky. I'm really grateful that the bf and me are pretty much on the same page, he is more on it than me really. Have extracted him and his pasta machine from London and he'll be staying out here with me for .. a while.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Just said goodbye to Mrs Frank for I don't even know how long. I was hoping she could come and stay with me but my housemates are on the fence about it, understandably, and I don't want to rock the boat with people who I may be stuck in close quarters with for some time.

 

[bimble]

thats really sad SpookyFrank i'm sorry.

 

[Badgers]

Just said goodbye to Mrs Frank for I don't even know how long. I was hoping she could come and stay with me but my housemates are on the fence about it, understandably, and I don't want to rock the boat with people who I may be stuck in close quarters with for some time.

Harsh

 

[Supine]

I've been designated as a key worker so no extended isolation for me.

One of the operators I've been working closely with this week just informed me her daughter had been off since Tuesday with covid symptoms. FFS. She got sent home straight away.

 

[kalidarkone]

This is very minor stuff but its making personal strife in my friendship with my neighbours. He's a yoga teacher, really good one, teaches at home in their own little (cramped) studio and I just had to say I am not coming anymore for the foreseeable. He's refusing to do anything like consider going online somehow or even clean the equipment between the many classes so its a no from me. He obviously thinks i'm overreacting and its really uncomfortable. They have asked me to look after their dog for the weekend which is usually a pleasure but i think i might be going in there with gloves and overalls on now

Don't look after their dog! Or go in their house. If they are going away with others and not socially distancing they are massively at risk and puthing you at risk and not giving a shit.
Even my nursing colleagues laughed at me a few weeks ago..........not fucking laughing now.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

This is very minor stuff but its making personal strife in my friendship with my neighbours. He's a yoga teacher, really good one, teaches at home in their own little (cramped) studio and I just had to say I am not coming anymore for the foreseeable. He's refusing to do anything like consider going online somehow or even clean the equipment between the many classes so its a no from me. He obviously thinks i'm overreacting and its really uncomfortable. They have asked me to look after their dog for the weekend which is usually a pleasure but i think i might be going in there with gloves and overalls on now

He's being an incredibly selfish and irresponsible cunt. Tell him to stick his dog up his arse.

 

[cupid_stunt]

He's being an incredibly selfish and irresponsible cunt. Tell him to stick his dog up his arse.

(((dog)))

 

[lazythursday]

This is very minor stuff but its making personal strife in my friendship with my neighbours. He's a yoga teacher, really good one, teaches at home in their own little (cramped) studio and I just had to say I am not coming anymore for the foreseeable. He's refusing to do anything like consider going online somehow or even clean the equipment between the many classes so its a no from me. He obviously thinks i'm overreacting and its really uncomfortable. They have asked me to look after their dog for the weekend which is usually a pleasure but i think i might be going in there with gloves and overalls on now

Funnily enough my Qi Gong teacher is behaving in a similar manner and encouraging people on FB to ignore the 'hysteria'. We have had words, which have (from him) included 'propaganda' and 'sheeple'. It's interesting that these sorts of people, who go on about compassion, have none when it comes to the crunch.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Funnily enough my Qi Gong teacher is behaving in a similar manner and encouraging people on FB to ignore the 'hysteria'. We have had words, which have (from him) included 'propaganda' and 'sheeple'. It's interesting that these sorts of people, who go on about compassion, have none when it comes to the crunch.

Almost as if being "open minded" makes your fucking brain fall out

 

[platinumsage]

I just cut my own hair. Last did that when I was 17.

 

[bimble]

He's being an incredibly selfish and irresponsible cunt. Tell him to stick his dog up his arse.

This is nothing to do with the virus but.. I missed out from previous post that their dog, who is 14, is basically dying (tumours). I have managed to say no to looking after the poor sod for them after agonising about it for about 3 hours and I feel better now. People are weird. Anyway, off topic, soz.

 

[xes]

Because of all the extra JD, red bull, weed and records I've had to buy, my bank just told me off for going over my over draft.

No money for a week and a half. Oh well. My partner is giving me some cash to pay off the over draft and stuff. So no actual disaster, but still a pig.

Have also given a box of 10 masks to the girls at work as some of them were getting a bit upset about everything. Even if they just bring a little peace of mind, that can be effective enough. (as their actual usefulness is debatable)

 

[xes]

kind of pisses on my plan to try and buy things for NHS workers for a couple of weeks.

By the way, heads up. I'm going to be doing this soon and I want you all to do the same. Be it fruit and veg, hand cream or full hazmat gear. Buy what you can afford to buy and hand it the fuck over! They need it infinitely more than we do.

 

[scifisam]

Yep these interpersonal things are tricky. I'm really grateful that the bf and me are pretty much on the same page, he is more on it than me really. Have extracted him and his pasta machine from London and he'll be staying out here with me for .. a while.

I know one other long term non-cohabiting couple that are now cohabiting due to this, though it's mainly because one of them has lost her broadband connection at home and it won't be fixed till about the year 3000.

Funnily enough my Qi Gong teacher is behaving in a similar manner and encouraging people on FB to ignore the 'hysteria'. We have had words, which have (from him) included 'propaganda' and 'sheeple'. It's interesting that these sorts of people, who go on about compassion, have none when it comes to the crunch.

The only person I know who's being a complete conspiracy laden arse like this is the same kind of yoga loving woo practitioner. I hope we're not actually killed off by fucking hippies.

 

[not-bono-ever]

Flights cancelled by BA - no automatic refund , just a voucher offer, fuck that- I am not confident of airlines cash flow. You need to call them and specifically ask for a refund- they offer nothing online to make it more difficult

 

[moody]

struggling to find work right now.

I suppose I could fall back on Universal Credit, I have a valid reason to claim having lost both my jobs due to this.

I don't really want to wait 5/6 weeks for what works out to be 70 quid a week. plus all the drama from the jobcentre.

Landlord did make a point of asking if everything was ok today and to let him know if I'm finding things difficult..

Edit,

Must remember to phone the bank next few day and ask for a reduction in payments towards my overdraft due to exceptional circumstances, I think they'll be ok, they always ask if I'm ok with the payments.

 

[kalidarkone]

Just had a chat with one of my colleagues over messenger. She is a nurse. Only 22 bless her. I asked about her bf who does not live with her and she was like oh hes coming over soon.... and I was like 'really?' .....I'm not even hugging my son or letting the neighbours take parcels for me.......to be fair she did take it onboard that she needed to consider things more... she sent me this :

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