So I’m at the grocery store on a rainy day suited up with gloves, mask, and hat (I was told by a reputable source the virus stays in hair up to 9 hours) and I’m staring at the frozen vegetables wondering, do I really need peas or would my tuna casserole be fine with extra cheese?

Without thinking I start humming along with the store speakers, which were playing “Band on the Run”.

“Stuck inside these four waaallls,
Sent inside foreverrrrr,
Never seeing NO one,
Niiice againn,
like yoouuuuu”

I start hip-bopping a little to the next part, my blue gloves still holding on to my cart. I notice a grocery worker also geared up in mask and gloves unpacking frozen waffles for those of us desperate for maple covered hope. He’s humming along too.

“If I ever get out of here,
Thought of giving it all awayyy
To a registered CHARity,
All I need is a pint a day
If I ever get outta herrre,
If we ever get outta of herrrre”

The grocery worker and I start singing the words, under our breath at first then stronger.

“Well, the RAIN exploded with a mighty CRASH,
As we FELL into the sunnn...”

Our eyes met over our masks. In unspoken agreement we both let go and belted out the next two lines.

“AND THE FIRST ONE SAID TO THE SECOND ONE THERE...

I HOPE YOU’RE HAVING FUNNNN”

With a nod and crinkled eyes, he went back to unpacking waffles and I put my frozen peas in my basket and strolled away. These grocery workers are frickin heroes.

PS Paul McCartney unites us all.