Chris Bennett: Worn down and off their trollies

A woman invited me to share a lift with her last week. The lifts were playing up and we were both returning to a multi-storey car park with grocery-laden trollies.

Despite the sign on the wall suggesting ‘one household at a time’ my fellow shopper said she didn’t mind and I could be waiting there for ages; as had she.

In other times this innocuous act of social cooperation and kindness wouldn’t register but it has become a rare commodity, as eye care professionals working through Covid-19 will know. It was a timely reminder that the pandemic is taking its toll on people’s patience and testing their resolve to follow the rules when, for others, life seems to be returning to normal.