D&D and the rising pandemic

At the grocery store, a guy walked in without a mask and the clerks refused him service until he put a mask on. He threatened to just take his groceries without paying, since nobody would ring him up, but they assured him he would be spending the night in jail for shoplifting if he did. He threw a cussing fit and thoroughly embarrassed himself in front of everyone, then left.

Some people, I swear.

Well that clerk got shot in Germany and the general abuse etc.
 

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On a lighter note - I totally spaced out the other day. Went to the local convenience store, got out of my car and walked right in. Took three steps in and realized I wasn't wearing a mask. I turned right around and got my mask, but, there was this, "Oh naughty word" moment as I kinda wondered why everyone was looking at me. Usually it's because I'm the over six foot white dude in a town that just doesn't have a lot of foreigners.

Dunno where my brains were though. Felt kinda like driving for a couple of blocks and then realizing I hadn't put on my seatbelt. Really weird.
 

On a lighter note - I totally spaced out the other day. Went to the local convenience store, got out of my car and walked right in. Took three steps in and realized I wasn't wearing a mask. I turned right around and got my mask, but, there was this, "Oh naughty word" moment as I kinda wondered why everyone was looking at me. Usually it's because I'm the over six foot white dude in a town that just doesn't have a lot of foreigners.

Dunno where my brains were though. Felt kinda like driving for a couple of blocks and then realizing I hadn't put on my seatbelt. Really weird.

Done something similar. I keep masks in car but had a brain fart once and forgot.

It happens. It's when you go out of your way to be an asshat.
 

On a lighter note - I totally spaced out the other day. Went to the local convenience store, got out of my car and walked right in. Took three steps in and realized I wasn't wearing a mask. I turned right around and got my mask, but, there was this, "Oh naughty word" moment as I kinda wondered why everyone was looking at me. Usually it's because I'm the over six foot white dude in a town that just doesn't have a lot of foreigners.

Dunno where my brains were though. Felt kinda like driving for a couple of blocks and then realizing I hadn't put on my seatbelt. Really weird.
Had a similar brain fade not too long ago. Three steps into the store, panicked when I realized it, then forced my way back out the automatic door. I usually have a clean one in my pocket, but this time had left it in the car.
 

My wife has had three of her house calls cancel this week due to covid exposure.

A friend of ours, is taking his family for a bit of a post-holiday visit to relatives (which is fine). He has tickets to a Broadway show. All performances of the show have been cancelled for the past week, but as of yesterday, his was still on.

If he does manage to see the show, we'll have to treat his household as if they were exposed to covid.

We have a sci-fi convention coming up in Boston, as well as a live-action game convention, both still proceeding as if these things were safe.

So many folks I know are going to get sick.
 

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Downside of mandates. Beats me if they expect low paid retail peons to enforce it. You can call the cops but until they get there.....

I suspect that people putting together the rules here had no real conception just how aggressively anti-maskers would respond to this sort of thing.

But yeah, it puts employees and even managers at retail locations in a frequently impossible position.
 

At the grocery store, a guy walked in without a mask and the clerks refused him service until he put a mask on. He threatened to just take his groceries without paying, since nobody would ring him up, but they assured him he would be spending the night in jail for shoplifting if he did. He threw a cussing fit and thoroughly embarrassed himself in front of everyone, then left.

Some people, I swear.

If that was only the worst of it.
 

On a lighter note - I totally spaced out the other day. Went to the local convenience store, got out of my car and walked right in. Took three steps in and realized I wasn't wearing a mask. I turned right around and got my mask, but, there was this, "Oh naughty word" moment as I kinda wondered why everyone was looking at me. Usually it's because I'm the over six foot white dude in a town that just doesn't have a lot of foreigners.

Dunno where my brains were though. Felt kinda like driving for a couple of blocks and then realizing I hadn't put on my seatbelt. Really weird.

When I was taking my prior dog on therapeutic walks twice a day, I did that a couple of times, with the same feeling; I was usually so far out on the (short) walk it made no sense to turn around, but I always felt weird, even if I was outside and the street was pretty empty.
 

More.unmasked folks across three turnpike oases and one hotel lobby in Indiana/Ohio/PA than we ran into in five grocery store and two big box store trips in Illinois. :-(
 

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