I posted a few days ago about an incident where I was asked to leave a grocery store for not wearing a mask. Post here.
The TL;DR version is this:
I go into a grocery store, shop for a 20 minutes. Every single employee at that point had been super nice and said absolutely nothing mask-related. In an empty aisle, the "store manager" walks up to me and asks if I'm aware that I have to wear a facial covering while in the store. I tell her I have a medical exemption. She says, "I don't care, it doesn't matter. The CDC says you still have to wear one." I knew she was completely wrong and arguing was of no use. So before I left, I made sure to ask her if this store's corporate policy was to NOT honor medical exemptions. She said, "Yeah". I asked her name and calmly left. I came home and felt pretty awful about the incident. Did not expect to ever have it affect me in such a way. I wrote corporate an email as a last resort but expected nothing to come of it.
Anyway, I have an update. I don't why I'm so surprised because I knew I was right, but it turns out this grocery DOES, in fact, honor medical exemptions. I wrote them back again because I wanted them to clarify some things and I wanted to make absolute sure I wouldn't be hassled again. They again replied and told me their management teams would be informed so "everyone is on the same page" and that I was good to go.
I know this is probably not a big deal to most of you but I hate confrontation and do everything I can to avoid it. All of the mandates and restrictions have affected me in ways I never thought possible. I pretty much hate going anywhere now due to the anxiety of whether I'm going to get humiliated and kicked out of a store over their stupid masks.
This one feels good, man. Feels like the little guy finally won one lol. Still have never worn a mask and never will. God bless America.
I actually thought about you today when I walked into my grocery store without a mask. It was an Aldi store and I only go there when I need certain things that my locally owned store doesn’t carry. Locally owned store has no mask requirement. Anyway, Aldi has their mask mandate plastered all over the place. Despite that, I pulled up my big girl panties and strutted right on in. I walked every aisle without issue. Only one other person was without a mask. When I got to the checkout I fully expected to be questioned. It was the manager running the register and his masked slipped down a bit. He pulled it up and looked at me and said, “I hate this damn mask!” That was it. Never have i felt so invigorated after grocery shopping. And it was your original post that motivated me. I’m glad you got some vindication!
That is awesome to hear. Sometimes I feel like I'm all alone in this but I remember my frens here are all in as well. Such a great feeling to know we've got each other. Thanks for sharing!