I refused to stand on their “x” and purposely went the wrong way down the stupid aisle. I also hugged as many people as I could find that I knew while in those grocery stores much to the horror of the onlookers. I just smiled and shopped, maskless of course. 😉
I tell seniors—of which I am well into that designation— that I had Covid before the shots. Like a 5 day runny nose. They look at me with shocked expressions like why am I alive. Some still believe the IFR is 30%.
I remember a poll from last year which revealed that Democrat voters thought you had upwards of a 20-30% chance of hospitalization if you actually contracted COVID.
We ate INSIDE a restaurant (in TX) in May of 2020. I have to admit it felt funny, but obviously I am still alive. I can't remember whether or not we wore masks. We live in NC, where dining rooms were closed for a very long time. I actually know of local one restaurant that still will not allow people to eat in their dining room. They finally allowed people to come in and order, but you have to take the food outside to eat it. It's sad. This place used to be a hangout for friends to eat and have conversation.
There was actually a quite enjoyable period of time (later 2020 I think??) when incredible numbers of people were ordering groceries by Instacart and the like, so relatively few people actually went into the stores to shop for themselves. I had most of the store to myself. Loved it!
My husband flew several times in April 2020 and a couple of times every month after that and he loved it because he had the plane mostly to himself for weeks 😆
I honestly believe we all did the opposite of what we should have done. We SHOULD have been out hugging people and having COVID parties like we did when we were young with chicken pox. I believe because I kept working and was around a lot of people (and yeah no vax) that my immune system is much stronger.
Same here. I kind of didn’t know I had it in me. as shots were beginning in Walmart I did encourage a senior to take her mask off —after all she had her shots didn’t she. And she did. Big smile.
When Gov PrickSter ordered masks back on fall of 2020 some guy said something to me in the Walmart aisle about my not wearing a mask. I told him to f@ck off. That was a first for me. 🤣🤣😈. Got easier.
I’m in IL as well, I run house and estate sales, never stopped working. When the mask mandate came down I was walking around houses freely, while most customers had those diapers dangling from their chins 🤦🏻♀️ I had a couple people ask me to step back...I would just say why? Are you sick?
I got thrown out of an estate sale by the 2 organizers for not having a mask. They were very rude so I went on line and gave their company a very bad review. Glad to hear they are not all like that. I toyed around with doing that business but realized it’s really hard work and I have enough junk of my own without getting more ideas. My favorite places at estate sales were the basements and garages. I like weird stuff. That’s where that stuff usually was. Good times. Now I keep the business cards and give them to my daughter who will have to deal with a 50 plus year accumulation eventually 😱😱
Was in a Steinmart at the height of the Covid hysteria. Made it all the way to checkout without a mask when the swishy manager who was running the register said "If I had seen you come in without a mask, I'd have made you put it on."
I chuckled and shot back at him, "And I would have refused."
They went out of business during the lockdowns. Good riddance.
I’ve been doing this for 33 years 🤦🏻♀️ can’t believe it BUT in my area I’m the “go to gal” my team and I organize EVERYTHING and price it all as well. Truly try and show as much respect as possible to the clients items and home. Soooo many bad apples in this business! Don’t get me started...I’m on several FB pages with them, a guy in CA thought we should all insist that our employees get jabbed 🤦🏻♀️ small backlashes ensued by some of us, also wanted to see people’s “cards” I said I wasn’t going to wear a star for anyone...he was appalled by my reply, oh well. 🤣. You sound like someone I’d like to hit sales with, those are my go to places to find my favorite things❤️❤️
Whoa! That star reference. I like that! We could have fun for sure. Sometimes I would drive by the morning after sales are done to see if anything was put out for free. I come from a long line of scroungers who had to do that. Even my hubby brought home 2 Amish made side tables that were on the road. Good boy! My collecting has abated somewhat. I’m an artist so my burden is I see beauty in the strangest things. Farm junk is my favorite. Patina and rust. Kind of like me.
Yeah, AS one of those cashiers working with a life-saving Plexi shield in front of me, I ALWAYS tried, and still do try, to get them to take off the filthy face diaper. I would straight up tell them "I can't understand a word you're saying, you need to take off that mask". I posted SIGNS telling them to remove it even. Nawww, I mean Baaa, they were MARRIED to those things!
And if you can believe it, yesterday December 15 2022 I STILL had this filthy man come up wearing TWO filthy masks and big floppy plastic gloves. So sanitary! I told my co-worker as we were counting his filthy money that I was going to give it a little lick before putting it in the drawer, to improve my immune system.
In recent months, whenever I encounter a plexiglas shield at a business, I tell them that they should remove them, or ask them when are they going to take those things down, and remind them we spent all our lives without them before this...I’m just getting blank stares, though. One employee at the credit union told me the employees ‘like’ having them up. More successful ‘divide and conquer’, I guess.
Ha! Yes! I've said the same thing and they said the same thing back to me. I want to say, "so that's all we had to do - all this time - to keep Covid from spreading - put up this plexiglass? Fascinating!
I wonder what is going on with that kid. The whole choir no masks? That child has to have something going on to go against the majority of not masking children. If nothing, a school counselor should gently probe. That IS sad. I hope the concert went well.
Oh he is a sad kid … he is actually suddenly a she … I’ve known him for many years and use the updated name but refuse the pronouns … I try to not refer to him at all … he is actually quite sweet and my mother heart breaks for him … I always have an urge to give him a hug but I assume he would recoil and scream if I did something so rash. I pray for him … I worry … ♥️♥️
My most fun experience was going into Publix in Seminole County, FL, behind an tiny old wrinkled woman where greeted by a teenage employee telling everyone to put on a mask. She snarled at him and said she DID NOT WEAR masks. The look on his face was priceless! I followed her, sans mask, and he smiled and said “Good Morning!”
I did the same thing about the masks 😆 And it wasn’t even a lie, their voices always sounded so muffled 🙄 What gets me is that they made such a big deal especially in the first year with cautioning people that shouting and singing made it easier to spread the virus, and then the dumb masks made people have to yell to be understood 🙄 That is covidian logic in a nutshell 🙄
I started to have fun with it. When someone would challenge me for being in a store without a mask I'd make stuff up and say, "Oh no...it's OK...I'm part of the government control group." Or, "Oh no...it's fine...I have government exemption 16B." Major looks of confusion but no one ever challenged me further. I'd just smile and keep moving.
That is awesome!! 😂😆 Wish I had thought of that!!! I did say I had a medical exemption (which I gave myself 😆 but didn’t tell them that part) but even then some said they couldn’t allow me in without one, so I informed them that they were discriminating and left.
I dunno - although the one-way aisle thing was indeed pretty stupid, the emergency taping off of non-essential item aisles in the EXACT SAME STORE, might just top it. (Apparently based on the $cience that COVID was only present on non-essential items' aisles.)
Also, let us not forget the COVID-theatre of wearing masks while walking thru the restaurants only to plop down at your tables and take them off again when seated - as if COVID could not drop below 5 feet of altitude somehow.
There's more than plenty of COVID STOOPID to go around.
YES!! The caution tape around the books and DVD sections. They have us all locked down, trapped inside our houses...and yet we can't even get books or movies? Oh that's right, only state-sponsored MSM for the peasants. Keep them scared. Pure insanity.
Lol! I INTENTIONALLY went the "wrong way" just to see who I could piss off. I am a short chick with a big attitude. Nobody ever said anything to me about going the wrong way.
I think watching Costco shoppers put 6 feet or more between the end of their cart and the person ahead was incredibly sad, were they afraid the cart was going to catch covid. Even more frustrating was realizing the drivers were leaving "six feet" between their car and the car ahead of them at stop lights and in parking lots.
Apparently you didn't get the memo explaining how you'd be killing grandma by crashing covid particles against the safe flow organized by the aisle markers, and shepherded by the Karens. Science denier!
I never masked outdoors. On trails in the middle of open spaces I would have people hustle over to the very edge and quick put on their facial sanitary napkin and then sprint by. Stoopid Hoomans. Trying to remember if there were direction arrows. I bet some parks did.
Genuinely surprised that CDC hasn't ginned up a study using a complicated regression of the second derivative of case-rates in selected counties on opposite sides of the country showing that those one-way grocery store aisles reduced case rates by a few percentage points.
I refused to stand on their “x” and purposely went the wrong way down the stupid aisle. I also hugged as many people as I could find that I knew while in those grocery stores much to the horror of the onlookers. I just smiled and shopped, maskless of course. 😉
HOW ARE YOU EVEN ALIVE?
Hahahahaha 😂 the experts are so baffled that we are still alive! Hahaha
I tell seniors—of which I am well into that designation— that I had Covid before the shots. Like a 5 day runny nose. They look at me with shocked expressions like why am I alive. Some still believe the IFR is 30%.
I remember a poll from last year which revealed that Democrat voters thought you had upwards of a 20-30% chance of hospitalization if you actually contracted COVID.
The actual statistic was 1-3%.
I knew this stuff by the winter of 2020 while I was still a democrat. I have since changed my ways. Ugh. Nobody wants to hear it.
Do you recall the projected stats from that very first (fraudulent) projection of deaths and hospitalizations? Percentage they predicted?
We ate INSIDE a restaurant (in TX) in May of 2020. I have to admit it felt funny, but obviously I am still alive. I can't remember whether or not we wore masks. We live in NC, where dining rooms were closed for a very long time. I actually know of local one restaurant that still will not allow people to eat in their dining room. They finally allowed people to come in and order, but you have to take the food outside to eat it. It's sad. This place used to be a hangout for friends to eat and have conversation.
And why does anybody still visit this restaurant?
I flew on an airplane in May 2020 and about 30 times since. When the stores were bare, I was there.
There was actually a quite enjoyable period of time (later 2020 I think??) when incredible numbers of people were ordering groceries by Instacart and the like, so relatively few people actually went into the stores to shop for themselves. I had most of the store to myself. Loved it!
In April 2020 it was great to drive on the roads because they were also pretty empty 😆
CMCM. I actually became a “personal shopper” for a lot of my neighbors who were frantically terrified not wanting to go into any stores and shop.
I essentially became an essential entrepreneur.
Just me and the workers sauntering around the empty store.
It had that library kind of quiet.
I got to know the clerks and chatted with them.
Got into the store with my gator covering my mouth but lost that after one minute in.
Arriving back to the neighbors with goods in hand they seemed flabbergasted that I had survived.
Many had their sprays and disinfectants ready on the table to spray down each can of beans and carton of milk 😂
Remember the disinfecting of each grocery item while wearing your latex gloves
Well that career ended mid 2021
As most had their “safe and effectives” in their arm.
Oh the memories
My husband flew several times in April 2020 and a couple of times every month after that and he loved it because he had the plane mostly to himself for weeks 😆
I honestly believe we all did the opposite of what we should have done. We SHOULD have been out hugging people and having COVID parties like we did when we were young with chicken pox. I believe because I kept working and was around a lot of people (and yeah no vax) that my immune system is much stronger.
I did the same Sunnydaze!
Sunnydaze I did the EXACT SAME THING
Oh the horror in the muzzled shoppers eyes.
I loved it when people would see you down an isle and quickly turn around and jet the other way......
“hey wait I’m right behind you..... how’s your day.....crazy weather huh”
Oh yeah people no likey to talky talky to someone not standing on the X
😂😂😂
I mostly gave them a big smile walking the wrong way around the aisles.
Happy to know there were others doing the same. I felt it was a small act of rebellion casting off the chains of slavery.
I have never felt more brave, or more free.
Same here. I kind of didn’t know I had it in me. as shots were beginning in Walmart I did encourage a senior to take her mask off —after all she had her shots didn’t she. And she did. Big smile.
When Gov PrickSter ordered masks back on fall of 2020 some guy said something to me in the Walmart aisle about my not wearing a mask. I told him to f@ck off. That was a first for me. 🤣🤣😈. Got easier.
I’m in IL as well, I run house and estate sales, never stopped working. When the mask mandate came down I was walking around houses freely, while most customers had those diapers dangling from their chins 🤦🏻♀️ I had a couple people ask me to step back...I would just say why? Are you sick?
I got thrown out of an estate sale by the 2 organizers for not having a mask. They were very rude so I went on line and gave their company a very bad review. Glad to hear they are not all like that. I toyed around with doing that business but realized it’s really hard work and I have enough junk of my own without getting more ideas. My favorite places at estate sales were the basements and garages. I like weird stuff. That’s where that stuff usually was. Good times. Now I keep the business cards and give them to my daughter who will have to deal with a 50 plus year accumulation eventually 😱😱
Was in a Steinmart at the height of the Covid hysteria. Made it all the way to checkout without a mask when the swishy manager who was running the register said "If I had seen you come in without a mask, I'd have made you put it on."
I chuckled and shot back at him, "And I would have refused."
They went out of business during the lockdowns. Good riddance.
Good! I didn’t know they closed.
I’ve been doing this for 33 years 🤦🏻♀️ can’t believe it BUT in my area I’m the “go to gal” my team and I organize EVERYTHING and price it all as well. Truly try and show as much respect as possible to the clients items and home. Soooo many bad apples in this business! Don’t get me started...I’m on several FB pages with them, a guy in CA thought we should all insist that our employees get jabbed 🤦🏻♀️ small backlashes ensued by some of us, also wanted to see people’s “cards” I said I wasn’t going to wear a star for anyone...he was appalled by my reply, oh well. 🤣. You sound like someone I’d like to hit sales with, those are my go to places to find my favorite things❤️❤️
Whoa! That star reference. I like that! We could have fun for sure. Sometimes I would drive by the morning after sales are done to see if anything was put out for free. I come from a long line of scroungers who had to do that. Even my hubby brought home 2 Amish made side tables that were on the road. Good boy! My collecting has abated somewhat. I’m an artist so my burden is I see beauty in the strangest things. Farm junk is my favorite. Patina and rust. Kind of like me.
Janet! I only know you from C&C, but I'm snorting coffee out my nose reading what you told them! Good for you!
Strong LOL
Yes, yes! Someone after my own heart!
There you go! Another compatriot
I think I’m going to start saying to masked people that I’m hearing impaired and can’t understand what they are saying.
If there is a cashier in a mask I will go to another line even if I have to wait.
Yeah, AS one of those cashiers working with a life-saving Plexi shield in front of me, I ALWAYS tried, and still do try, to get them to take off the filthy face diaper. I would straight up tell them "I can't understand a word you're saying, you need to take off that mask". I posted SIGNS telling them to remove it even. Nawww, I mean Baaa, they were MARRIED to those things!
And if you can believe it, yesterday December 15 2022 I STILL had this filthy man come up wearing TWO filthy masks and big floppy plastic gloves. So sanitary! I told my co-worker as we were counting his filthy money that I was going to give it a little lick before putting it in the drawer, to improve my immune system.
The customer did not respond.
Laura-ann - I am laughing out loud. Thank you for that. It's so very much needed.
I lick all my cash!
OMG🤣🤣🤣. I like your attitude.
Laura, you should punish mask wearing clerks by going to their line, make them work harder 🤣
Haha! Good point my friend!
In recent months, whenever I encounter a plexiglas shield at a business, I tell them that they should remove them, or ask them when are they going to take those things down, and remind them we spent all our lives without them before this...I’m just getting blank stares, though. One employee at the credit union told me the employees ‘like’ having them up. More successful ‘divide and conquer’, I guess.
Ha! Yes! I've said the same thing and they said the same thing back to me. I want to say, "so that's all we had to do - all this time - to keep Covid from spreading - put up this plexiglass? Fascinating!
Dumbass sheep
I love it!!! I do the same thing. Huh? I can’t understand you? What? 😂
Same
I smiled as hard as I could. Especially at children & a little wave hello.
Me too! I told my adult kids that this was going to be very bad for kids development, but what would I know ;-)
More than the vast majority of the so-called educators, clearly!
Last night at a high school choir concert, there was a singular student singing with a mask on ... oh my ... so sad ...
I wonder what is going on with that kid. The whole choir no masks? That child has to have something going on to go against the majority of not masking children. If nothing, a school counselor should gently probe. That IS sad. I hope the concert went well.
His parents are Bernie Bros.
I'd bet my 401k on it.
Oh he is a sad kid … he is actually suddenly a she … I’ve known him for many years and use the updated name but refuse the pronouns … I try to not refer to him at all … he is actually quite sweet and my mother heart breaks for him … I always have an urge to give him a hug but I assume he would recoil and scream if I did something so rash. I pray for him … I worry … ♥️♥️
😞😢
My most fun experience was going into Publix in Seminole County, FL, behind an tiny old wrinkled woman where greeted by a teenage employee telling everyone to put on a mask. She snarled at him and said she DID NOT WEAR masks. The look on his face was priceless! I followed her, sans mask, and he smiled and said “Good Morning!”
Oh my word, I love it!!! 🤣🤣🤣😁😁😁
Eric I could never hear the cashier behind their mask and the 5” plexiglass
I would always walk around to the side where the bagger stands and say
“Ok now what did you say?”
Oh dear I was on the other side of this plastic shield 😱
One checker screamed “what on gods earth are you doing lady and you brought YOUR OWN BAG??!!!! That could seriously kill one of our employees!!!”
Can’t make this up.... Fall 2020 was complete hysteria
Got a mask on then my first comment after you say anything is
“Wait what did you say....your all gargled I can’t understand a word your saying”
Clown world
Every single time. It never got old.
I did the same thing about the masks 😆 And it wasn’t even a lie, their voices always sounded so muffled 🙄 What gets me is that they made such a big deal especially in the first year with cautioning people that shouting and singing made it easier to spread the virus, and then the dumb masks made people have to yell to be understood 🙄 That is covidian logic in a nutshell 🙄
I started to have fun with it. When someone would challenge me for being in a store without a mask I'd make stuff up and say, "Oh no...it's OK...I'm part of the government control group." Or, "Oh no...it's fine...I have government exemption 16B." Major looks of confusion but no one ever challenged me further. I'd just smile and keep moving.
Sarah Dee for the WIN!! I’m using that if this nonsense ever comes back.
Brilliant! Baffle 'em with bullshyt when The Science fails.
That is awesome!! 😂😆 Wish I had thought of that!!! I did say I had a medical exemption (which I gave myself 😆 but didn’t tell them that part) but even then some said they couldn’t allow me in without one, so I informed them that they were discriminating and left.
lol
Sarah Dee… Clever!!! 👍🏼
I love it!
I dunno - although the one-way aisle thing was indeed pretty stupid, the emergency taping off of non-essential item aisles in the EXACT SAME STORE, might just top it. (Apparently based on the $cience that COVID was only present on non-essential items' aisles.)
Also, let us not forget the COVID-theatre of wearing masks while walking thru the restaurants only to plop down at your tables and take them off again when seated - as if COVID could not drop below 5 feet of altitude somehow.
There's more than plenty of COVID STOOPID to go around.
YES!! The caution tape around the books and DVD sections. They have us all locked down, trapped inside our houses...and yet we can't even get books or movies? Oh that's right, only state-sponsored MSM for the peasants. Keep them scared. Pure insanity.
So did I. Was fun.
Lol! I INTENTIONALLY went the "wrong way" just to see who I could piss off. I am a short chick with a big attitude. Nobody ever said anything to me about going the wrong way.
Which kinda hurt my feelings. 😂🤣😅
I think watching Costco shoppers put 6 feet or more between the end of their cart and the person ahead was incredibly sad, were they afraid the cart was going to catch covid. Even more frustrating was realizing the drivers were leaving "six feet" between their car and the car ahead of them at stop lights and in parking lots.
Apparently you didn't get the memo explaining how you'd be killing grandma by crashing covid particles against the safe flow organized by the aisle markers, and shepherded by the Karens. Science denier!
Trails. Outdoors, too.
I never masked outdoors. On trails in the middle of open spaces I would have people hustle over to the very edge and quick put on their facial sanitary napkin and then sprint by. Stoopid Hoomans. Trying to remember if there were direction arrows. I bet some parks did.
Genuinely surprised that CDC hasn't ginned up a study using a complicated regression of the second derivative of case-rates in selected counties on opposite sides of the country showing that those one-way grocery store aisles reduced case rates by a few percentage points.
I routinely went the wrong way; I am guessing I’m not alined.
I had great fun totally ignoring all those aisle arrows.