‘What’s your weirdest Covid pandemic memory?’ – 23 utterly bizarre things that seemed completely reasonable at the time

13.

‘Anti-bac-ing my online grocery shop, leaving my mail for a few days to quarantine, and keeping my letter from my employer in the glovebox all the time that said I needed to travel in for work.’
–Coconutpieplates

14.

‘My work sent me a tea bag in the post. Most people were working from home so I think the idea was to have a break from work, and have a cuppa on them. A nice idea but was truly bizarre getting a single tea bag in the post.’
–Orange_fan1

15.

‘One kind neighbour putting Easter egg baskets, signed from ‘the Easter bunny’ on everyone’s doorsteps, and another neighbour texting the WhatsApp group chat (another Covid thing) to say he’d reported the Easter bunny to the police for breaking lockdown rules.’
–freddiethecalathea

16.

‘‘You have no authority here Jackie Weaver!!!’’
–Upbeat_Map_348

17.

‘Standing in a queue outside Tesco one metre apart from the person in front to wait my turn feels like a surreal memory.’
–_isolati0n

18.

‘Such a mundane thing, but somehow a core memory… we live on natural yoghurt and couldn’t find it anywhere, and then my sister in law who was living with us managed to find a random company that used to supply restaurants and had transitioned to supplying retail customers.

‘We made a phone call to this random mobile number and the next day they delivered about 80 small yoghurt pots and we sat around outside opening and emptying these small pots into bigger containers.’
–Tzunamitom

19.

‘My nearby shopping centre had to put up a pictorial guide on how to wear a mask properly, but what made it ridiculous was that they had to revise it to add more pics of the incorrect ways to wear one. The funniest/dumbest was one with the mask over the eyes.

‘I asked a shop staff member if that was just a joke, and with clear exasperation he went, “unfortunately, you’d be surprised”. I guess sometimes I do underestimate the stupidity of the general public (I did see someone wearing a mask gathered under their nose like a moustache, so maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised).’
–YourSkatingHobbit

20.

‘All the animals that showed up when people disappeared. I saw a deer in the middle of a fairly big city during the day.’
–Embarrassed_Ad1722

21.

‘I had breathing difficulties (lol, shock) and called NHS 111 – they sent a man in a van, wearing full hazmat suit to my front door to take my oxygen levels. Then he made me go run up and down the stairs. It was quite surreal!

‘Anyway, I had pneumonia. But at least it wasn’t PE.’
–Poo_Poo_La_Foo

22.

‘Walking my dog through the local park, only to see a man walking towards me with a tawny owl on his shoulder, casual as can be.’
–Puzzleheaded-Lynx-89

23.

‘My Grandad was diagnosed with cancer, given two years to live. None of us could go visit him.

On the plus side, he’s blown through the two years and is still kicking to this day!’
–lankymjc

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