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.
Husband hasn't worn masks either and never gets approached except occasionally at Walmart front door. They ask him to put on a mask, he takes it, walks away and throws it on a shelf, end of story. No one and I mean no one has been confrontational. I think it's how you carry yourself. Own it, go in with confidence. I know what you mean about confrontation, I am like you, I hate confrontation. Luckily, my husband has never been that guy that walks away no matter what size person he is facing. Sometimes it works out for him, sometimes it doesn't.
When all this started last year, the door guy at Walmart gave me some shit about masks. I was nice to him and just told him that he'd have to get used to me coming to the store without a mask. I told him covid wasn't magically gonna disappear and that we'd all better just go on with our lives. We can't wear masks forever so I was just skipping to the part where I won't wear a mask lol.
I see him almost every single time I go to Walmart and he hasn't said a word since. He actually kinda nods his head and say hi now.