Its not a huge deal to most of you, but this was big for me. I'm near Pittsburgh, PA where our governor has destroyed businesses. He and his sidekick, Rachel Levine?, made sure that everyone would "stay calm, stay, healthy, and stay safe" by keeping everyone locked down. I teach in a Catholic school where we we in person all year. Because the public schools were mostly online or hybrid, parents got sick of it and brought their kids to us. This is how bad it has been. Well, like most of you, I gave it the two weeks to flatten the curve AND THEN ANOTHER YEAR! I'm fed up. Yesterday I shopped entirely with no mask at Aldi. It was huge for me. I dont believe they work, but I havent had the nerve to try it. There were two women who got in line after me with only a few items while I had a cart full. I offered them to go ahead. They were both friendly and smiled and thanked. There was not one look or comment from them or anyone else including employees. I realized that something I have been seeing here is true. We have to lead. I'm betting most of them don't agree either but are hesitant to take that step. There are so many more of us!!! Today the permit to carry line in our area is unbelievably long. They have underestimated us.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (34)
sorted by:
My husband and I went in to a Lowes store this week without a mask (our first time). Something pretty cool happened. First we were the only customers in there without the mask. We were looking at appliances. The woman that works the department walked over and just talked and talked to us, as though she was glad to see whole faces. Then when we checked out, the checkout lady was just so friendly and looked happy. Lastly there were three younger employees standing by the front door chatting away. While we were checking out they just stopped talking and watched us. As we were leaving all three of them smiled and said "you guys have a great day" It made me realize that these employees everywhere that are made to wear masks are just of sick of it as us. They seemed like they enjoyed our courage. It felt like we had given them some hope that this stupidity may end soon.