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 lost the embarrassment gene a long time ago so it doesn't bother me if someone says something to me about not wearing a mask. I just say no. And in all these months I've only had to leave 2 places. Sure, I get the occasional eejit recoiling from me as they pass me in the aisle but I just smile at them and go about my business. And I always wear headphones and pretend not to hear the repeated "ma'am"s as I breeze through the front door. Do you mind if I ask what store this was?
I have put up with all the eyerolls, the purple-haired ladies screeching for me to "mask up", and the occasional employee asking me to wear a mask. I have ALWAYS ignored it all and when it came to it, just said "MEDICAL" and walked away. Never ever had a problem until this place. This was the very first time I was actually told I couldn't shop without a mask, medical or not. Wish I were like you LOL. But my brain just goes into overdrive and wont let me function when it comes to confrontation. I hate it. This was at WinCo.
Ah...I see you haven't been to Costco. They're fucking mask Nazis.