social distancing for milk.

Hey, how you hanging in there?

Good I hope, really I do. It’s a lot for anyone to have to go through regarding isolating yourself from the world/people and I’m sure it’s going to eternally change the way we behave (for many at least) in crowds and public spaces.

Maybe self driving cars won’t feel so weird as we are perfectly spaced apart, with no rush hour any more as we are all perfectly matched in space and speed travelling along the road together.

Will it feel illegal almost or risky to feel close to another human again, will the ultimate intimacy be marred by the need to check each others temperatures and scrub up or will we have walk in 3d printer style walk in bacteria removers en masse.

Photo by Mehrshad Rajabi on Unsplash

These questions and more obviously float in my head each and every interaction now with the outside world, like a switch just changed everything while nobody was looking.

We will adapt, we always have, earth will recalibrate nature without us anyway but this little starting block has helped already all over the globe, maybe we will start to consider climate change and it’s effects and security in general more seriously.

It’s certainly in times like this you look at the information rich, the educated enough to be able to source information, cross reference facts, build reserves, heed warnings and ultimately enact plans for their families that will be part of the building blocks of tomorrows world, what’s that looks like.

As I rushed into the store with my hoodie covering my mouth and I softly open the fridge unit realising that handle might have been touched by hundreds previously I noticed the markings on the floor telling us to keep apart from the next person.

Standing back from the counter at least a meter from a sales guy with no face mask and no hand protect aside from his trusty liquid soap pump I wondered how much the milk would ring up to be.

It was more than I had.

I need a little bit more for the milk had gone up, like a glimmer of hope on one of the notifications sitting on the next tray was a single 10p coin which made my total, I asked if I could use it. He said ok, I was away out of the store with speed.

I washed my hands straight away, cleaned everything I had used between here and there, took of my clothes and put them in the sunshine, I washed them once more, I noticed the sweat on my brow from the morning heat and I forced myself to remember not to touch my face.

Welcome to the new normal, fetching milk never felt so sci-fi.

__humble x

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