When it really happens: SHTF...

[Flying10uk]

Today on the way home from work I thought that I would just pop into the larger of my 2 local supermarkets to get a few things, taking the direct route, up an earth bank and through a few shrubs, on foot of-course, arriving in the supermarket carpark, only to be greeted by a dirty great long queue, stretching along one end and one side of the large carpark. So far in the "Virus saga" I've missed out in the experience of the "queue" at the supermarket because, up-till-now, when arriving at a supermarket, the first sign of a queue, I've thought to myself "I can't be arsed with this." and simply gone home with no shopping. Today was different, lovely sunny weather, warm, arrive at the supermarket, dirty great long queue and I think, "I'll have a bit of that." and join the back of the queue.

In-store there must have been some sort of hiatus as no-one was coming out of the store and the queue was going no-where, except getting longer. Who cares it was still sunny and still warm. Eventually the queue started making it's first tentative, baby steps forward, while still religiously maintaining everyone's regulation 2m social distancing requirement. While the queue obtained some forward momentum one of the security guards from the shop made his way along the queue asking if there were any NHS* workers who were entitled to go to the front.