[Maydianne Andrade] There are a lot of stores with no line ups. All the clothing stores, the takeout restaurants, the dentist. But I can see already from here that the place I'm heading does have a lineup. The shopping list is different now. How much, what type, can we freeze? What happens if we need to stay inside for two weeks solid. I am Maydianne Andrade. I'm from the University of Toronto. This is "The New Normal". And that's where we are. Grocery shopping requires a strategy. It requires a plan. Actually not too bad help me get wha-- about six people in line. So the grocery store door opened at eight. I was there by about, I don't know, quarter to eight, along with four or five other people, all respectfully staggering ourselves across the sidewalk. Nicely spaced. So I'll just try in the back here. No, no you please, that's fine thank you. Occasionally someone else would walk up and, and walk straight to the door like they expected it to open, sort of be taken a back and then read the sign. And then sort of come to themselves, look around and notice that there was actually a queue and go to the back. What was really strange to me though, was how quiet it was. Not that there was no traffic, but that no one was talking to each other. Many people are wearing masks, and I know sometimes when you can't see if someone's smiling or if their voices muffled, it makes it hard to talk but it wasn't just that it was almost like we were afraid, that conversation would spread the virus. It was almost like we didn't know what to do or say, in this strange new world. Whether it was socially acceptable to talk, when talking meant in Troodos words, you might be talking moistly. So they let us in the store. What was so interesting about that was how do you move through a small downtown grocery store?

How are you doing.

Without,

Thanks for doing this work.

Getting into someone's personal space. Without being with in that arc of six feet of a someone swinging a hockey stick around themselves. And the answer is there are a lot of missteps.

Sorry.

And in my case, a lot of missed aisles.

The section where all the vegetables are, which I definitely mean, is packed with people as well as someone stacking the shelves. I'll try to remember to come back. Okay, I don't know if there's any way to get back, to the vegetables.

Because you start down one aisle and realize, ah, someone's coming the other way,

Sorry. I go this way.

What do I do? It's not always clear what you do. And again, what was so strange is that for most of this people were completely silent. The one exception was when I turned the corner to go into the Pasta aisle. And there was a woman there with a mask up over her face, standing in front of the Pasta, which is where I was headed. And she turned to me and said, "Do you know what rigatoni looks like?" And I laughed and I said, "Kind of of like tunnels chopped up tunnels". And she said, "Oh, there it is". She said, "Do you know which brand of rigatoni comes in a box?" And by that point, I guess the look on my face was somewhat like, "Are you serious?" And she said to me, "I'm shopping for a neighbor". And I said, "Oh, is it an older person?" And she said, "Yes, she's 83 and there's very particular things she wants". I said, "Yeah, at that age, it really is hard to accept that things have changed, and that those particular things you want may not be available".