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 frequent a store for lunch now and then, great deli. Two weeks in a row I was confronted by the same Employee. Once for having my mask below my nose (glasses were completely fogged), real snarky tone...I held my tongue.
Next week I go back. Waiting in line to checkout, lady in front of me has moved to the end of the checkout so I walk up and set my sandwich on the counter. Checkout guy tells me to step behind the line, 'didn't I see the sign'? I see it is the same guy from a week prior, so I say...easy, easy man I didn't see the line. He now yells to 'back up', I say easy, no need to be a dick! He didn't like this because 'he doesn't take insults', so he threatens to kick me out of the store as he is trying desperately to gain some allies amongst the store full of hippies.
I proceeded to tell him this was two weeks in a row he had that tone with me, and if he was so worried about germs in the store...then he should probably do something about nasty beard he had sticking all over out of his mask, and that there were more germs in that greasy, nasty thing than the rest of the entire store.
He then muttered 'well I won't name call'...and that I called him a dick.
I said if the shoe fits wear it, and walked out.