Story How to protest Covid without really trying...... (Very short)

[Old Gray Mare]

So I'm inviting others to leave similar stories on this thread. The following was totally unintentional.

The story....

So I'm in Costco and headed for the door in my normal state of confusion. The recite needed to exit the store has been devoured by my black hole of a purse. Scrounging furiously to locate the correct recite from the fist full of them I've located so far. Success! I put the desired recite between my lips so it doesn't get confused with the rest I'm busy cramming back into the black hole. All this accomplished within a few feet of the exit under the watchful eyes of the dedicated receipt checkers.

Taking the recite from my mouth, I hand it to the checker who takes it like he's been asked to handle a rabid venomous stinging insect. Gripping the offending paper at arm's length with the very tips of his fingers, he scores it with his marker while pushing it back in my general direction as fast as humanly possible while wishing me a; "Good Day!".

I left smiling.

 

[Old Gray Mare]

Yesterday I saw a employee at another big box store waring not one but two masks. This thing is getting completely out of hand.

 

[Freebirde]

Most of the ones I see cover the chin but not the nose. We must be protected from those chin germs!!!

 

[AlaskaSue]

No masks on 95% or better around here. Everyone out in the sunshine. Kids playing in parks and front yards, flowers blooming, birds singing…no one staring me down for being maskless. And I’m in Florida….it’s almost like home except 100 degrees warmer with sunlight instead of moonlight all day!

It‘s breathtaking the difference of how not just different countries face this, but different states (and counties/boroughs/parishes) as well!

 

[Texican]

No masks on 95% or better around here. Everyone out in the sunshine. Kids playing in parks and front yards, flowers blooming, birds singing…no one staring me down for being maskless. And I’m in Florida….it’s almost like home except 100 degrees warmer with sunlight instead of moonlight all day!

It‘s breathtaking the difference of how not just different countries face this, but different states (and counties/boroughs/parishes) as well!

My DW's grandnephew married a woman with children and they moved to Florida and all four of them now have Covid.

Covid is still out there. Avoid crowds.

Texican....

 

[RememberGoliad]

I was in a store, checker was all masked up, struggling to get the plastic sack open to put my purchases in it. I saw her twice start to lick her fingers to get the bag open but caught herself. Finally I reached over the counter, took the sack from her, licked my finger, and opened it. She got this look of absolute horror on her face and literally turned tail and FLED! Bagged up my stuff and left.

 

[AlaskaSue]

My DW's grandnephew married a woman with children and they moved to Florida and all four of them now have Covid.

Covid is still out there. Avoid crowds.

Texican....

I hear you. I truly hope they all recover without any further trouble. My comment was meant to note that the fear factor is not as intense here or at home as I’m reading about in other areas. We are big into cleanliness and sunshine and other health factors…I did not mean to diminish the fact that it does exist or that others aren‘t facing difficulties due to illness.

I hope that your loved ones all return to good health quickly ~~

 

[accountant]

Hi OGM,

Thank you for your story.

Here's mine. Just so you know, I'm double vaxxed and have received the booster as required,

To any LEO out there, this is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to anyone living or dead is purely coincidental..blah, blah, blah.

To everyone else, this really happened.

So, I'm in the used car lot of the local dealership to pick up the new (new to me) used vehicle. Never buy new; why pay for the depreciation if you don't have to.

Anyway, I was masked up as required and was is the general manager's office. I wasn't offered any coffee or day-old pastries like I had been when I had leased a vehicle form this location in the past. \

I was sitting and nodding my head as the general manager explained the lease and some of the fine print (they never tell you all of the fine print, you have to read that yourself.).
Finally, when he was done his spiel and handed me the keys, I intentionally stuck my hand out to thank him.

Just so you know, I had sanitized my hands with the complimentary hand sanitizer when I had entered the building and I had watched the general manager sanitize his hands when he entered his office.

I locked my eyes with his and non-verbally challenged him to not shake my hand while keeping my eyes locked onto his.

Slowly but surely, with tiny beads of sweat forming on his brow, the general manager extended his hand towards mine.

It's funny, I've never felt a hand as cold and clammy as that general manager's hand. Nevertheless, Once his clammy hand was in in mine, I bought my left hand forward to clasp his hand in both my hands.

Honestly, as long as I live, I don't think I will ever see anyone's eyebrows lift as high as that general manager's did as I shook his hand with both of mine. And I can't tell you how far his eyes bugged our of his head while I was thanking his for all his help during the entire purchasing process.

I was tempted to hug him just to see if I could make him wet his pants, but decided against is. I reminded myself that Tim McGraw said that we should remain humble and kind.

As I drove out of the used car lot, I smiled as I watched the general manager vigorously rubbing his hands with hand sanitizer.

A.

 

[Lone_Hawk]

I guess we were about seven months into this insanity and my wife just "needed to get out of the house!" So off we go to Cabela's and then to Khol's. Now, from almost the beginning of this BS I'm not buying off on all of this. Yeah, I have a cloth mask in my pocket, as worthless as they are. This is when they were doing the one entrance, one exit, with arrows on the floors, and all of that stupidity.

So we enter Kohl's and there is this 6'4" skinny dude with mask and rubber gloves and as we entered he said, "Sir, do you have a mask?" I answered, "Why, yes I do," and I walked right past him into the store. You could see the terror in his eyes as he didn't know what to do. Yeah, I got some nasty looks and a couple of people scurried away like I was the devil incarnate. But from their eyes you could tell that quite a few people smiled at me. But they didn't have the balls to take off the rag.