Anxiety levels are high. Every where and with everyone. It's a pandemic after all.
Politics/vaccines/tradetalks/supply chains/deadlines/graphs/numbers of dead/scandals/controversies/information and misinformation/masks and social distancing/ schools open/schools closed/changing rules/guidelines/laws/heartbreaks/the 538 decisions required to buy and set up a new laptop and even the simplest of things requires more thought than ever before...
Shopping locally (I am lucky to be in a low risk area) I stepped into a shop and saw someone I knew at the counter and said Hello. You don't have a flag said the boy behind the cash desk. You've come into the shop without a flag! There are too many people in the shop! His tone of voice suggested the situation was an emergency.
I didn't know what on earth he was talking about and it must have shown on my face as I headed for the exit ( I did understand the bit about too many people in the shop ) as some of the people, trying to be helpful, waved their flags at me. and pointed towards the door. Nearly, but not quite, toppling a stack of books I found a sign. All shops have at least ten signs most of which I can't read anyway. I have AMD. By this time I had figured out that you had to have a flag to enter the shop, and someone was taking the last flag and putting it into my hand while telling me how lucky I was that there was one left. I wasn't feeling in the least lucky. I was feeling like some bumbling idiot as I dashed over to my friends and arranged to meet at a nearby coffee shop then got back out as quickly as I could throwing my flag into the box attached to the window.
An outside table at The Boathouse with a view down the calm waters of the Firth of Clyde, friendly service and a good cup of coffee restored my equilibrium a little. I was at the bus stop when I realised I had walked off without paying for my coffee. I tried phoning my friends who were still at the cafe but by mistake left the message on her home phone instead of her mobile....
I was so glad to get home.
Aaaaargh....Have you had days like this? In the great scheme of things nothing much, but at the time...