Thought 2020 couldn’t get any more bizarre? Think again.
A cafe in Germany has put in place some unusual measures to ensure customers stick to coronavirus social distancing rules.
Rather than the floor markings and perspex screens, the cafe has opted for a less traditional (but far more entertaining) approach.
To mark its reopening this week, Cafe & Konditorei Rothe in Schwerin, Germany, asked customers to wear straw hats with two swimming noodles attached to the top.
That’s right, the little spongey floats kids use in swimming pools.
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The inventive new rule is to encourage visitors to stay six feet away from other customers – and it looks like it worked.
Pictures show a handful of people causally enjoying some wine in the sunshine, while sporting the eye-catching headpieces.
Each DIY hat features three or four colourful floats stuck on in different directions, to form each customer’s own personal area.
Naturally, news of the imaginative social distancing method has caught the attention of people on social media.
Journalist Katy Lee was quick to share the images on Twitter, with the caption: ‘Oh my god, this is amazing.’
To which one user replied: ‘This is incredible. Sign me up.’
Someone else added: ‘This could be the greatest thing I’ve ever seen’
Another person joked: ‘Sorry but I would ruin it for everyone by pretending to be a helicopter.’
While another said: ‘I need one of those in Asda!’
But others were not so sure, one commented: ‘No drink is worth that much humiliation’
The news comes as Germany starts to ease its lockdown, after the country experienced one of the lowest death tolls in Europe, at just under 7,000.
But it seems Germany is not the only country getting creative with social distancing measures.
A restaurant in Amsterdam has created individual greenhouses for dining groups.
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