If was a bad day yesterday, my lad came home from work upset and close to tears. He had spent the whole day serving customers car cleaning products, any thing but essential stuff for 9 hrs. He was annoyed at the amount of people coming out for non essential goods and that by halfords being open was encouraging this. He thinks halfords should be only selling essential products, like bulbs, inner tubes etc. His gf works in intense care and one of their colleagues died last week from the virus. He hasnt seen her for over 5 weeks now thanks to self isolation and not living in the same house. His gf is like lots of front line staff putting their lives on the line , and he is so angry that he has to serve car polish to these twats , he wants to shout at them 'go the f**k home you are putting people at risk just to buy car cleaning products just f**k off' .
In all the time they have been open he says they have only served about 4 NHS workers the rest are just people buying car cleaning, jet washers and new bikes. He (as we are ) are worried about his gf.
I tried my best to calm him down and to try to put those thoughts to the back of his mind, but it's not easy. He really miss's seeing her and he believes these twats will only make the lock down last longer, as he and her do the right thing.
At the moment both for him and me are only escape from the house so work , but he really is having a hard time. Me I have good and bad but for me at the moment my work is collecting and delivering food to food banks so is worthwhile which makes it easier, I guess doing work which isnt in his or me eyes essential is hard to do especially with the work his gf does. But it effects us all in the house as we might not feel great but try our best to keep him positive
