I know there are loads of you going maskless since the beginning but please let me share a win for me in my neighborhood. I live LA. Since March 2020 I have never seen anyone INSIDE a business without a mask. Unless in a restaurant lately.

Since I heard TJs was allowing people to enter without masks I saw that no one was doing it. The fear of being attacked and videoed and shamed it quite real here. Plus I heard CA won’t be lifting anything until June 15.

That all said...Yesterday I did it.

I grabbed a cart, got a spritz of hand sanitizer (which I never do), and shopped. My heart was pounding out of my chest, but it was my cheeks that were hurting me the most because I was trying to suppress the smile on my face the whole time.

I shopped for 15mins. Leaning across people, chatting with the cashier, smiling at everyone. It was fucking amazing! I was the only one inside the grocery store without a mask, living like a normal person while everyone else still chooses to live in their dystopian sick world.

I can’t wait to do it again!

PS. The best part was this rocker dude in an anarchy shirt that said Fuck the (something) on it was in line with his mask under his nose. The look in his eyes when I smiled at him was perfection.