Pretty fun exchange at Safeway after shopping tonight! I walk out with a full cart and a guy walking toward the store is looking at me kinda funny, like I’m confusing him. He walks up and awkwardly says, "are we allowed to not wear masks in there now?" I go, "we never had to. It's been up to you this whole time. I don't wear one while I'm shopping and haven't for months now. I saw a few others without a mask to. Totally up to you I guess." He says, "awesome, thanks!" I watched him walk in and tuck his mask into his back pocket. As an aside, I saw more people while shopping without a mask today than I have this entire time. Still more masked than non but more non by a long shot! Anyhow, it was neat seeing someone take a red pill and immediately get excited and I wanted to share.
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Oh, I unashamedly love pointless info. Thank you!
Here’s another fun fact of retail brands seemingly stuck out on islands all by themselves:
https://thesledgehammer.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/a-not-so-standard-chevron-station/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/standard-oil-gas-station
That’s wild! I can’t wait to find a way to naturally squeeze this new chevron/standard info into conversation!
See if you can find the one in your state (if you live in Chevron territory).
I just happen to have filled up my cars at both these stations listed (CA and WA)… before I ever knew about this story.
LOL I found the one in my state like 2 paragraphs into the second article. Haha it’s maybe 15 miles from me. I may have to go get gas there just for the novelty.
The 2nd article is flat-out wrong about stations named Standard having disappeared by the 1950s under new branding.
Where I grew up, in St. Louis, in the '60s and '70s there were Standard stations all over town. The station nearest our home where we always filled up was a Standard.