So many arrangements are in place to keep us safe from this coronavirus threat and we do well to adhere to them.
I have noticed, though, that the social distancing seems to have introduced an assumption of avoiding any social contact.
My wife and I were taking our daily exercise along the promenade this morning and most folk were keeping the sensible distance as required.
Yet no one seemed to be speaking with one another – eyes fixed forward, downward, upward, anywhere but towards any other person.
When I ventured a ‘good morning’ people seemed to jump as if I had suddenly appeared from space!
I began to become amused by this, so started speaking often; it was fun. Yet some (of our older generation) did respond as if ‘Oh, someone has noticed me. I am a human being’.
Come on, Worthing. Stay safe; keep the right distance, but don’t lose touch with one another.
A smile, a ‘good morning’ means so much.