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In reply to the discussion: Just got back from my local Safeway... [View all]tanyev
(42,515 posts)22. Long, long ago when Texas still required masks in public, a popular ruse was the eternal coffee.
My Kroger has a little Starbucks kiosk in it and I often saw a mask dangling off one ear while that person managed to nurse a coffee through their entire shop. "Of course I wore a mask when I came in the store, but I have to take it down to drink my coffee, right?"
They could, of course, get the coffee as they left the store and then remove their mask outside or in their vehicle.
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Until they run into me. I have very little patience in the best of times, and these
niyad
Aug 2021
#12
Passive-aggressive assholes for sure. Some grocery clerks wear masks like this, and
Nay
Aug 2021
#23
Funny. I recently went in a Safeway in Sacramento, California and I would say at least half of the
totodeinhere
Aug 2021
#15
Which Safeway? Was it in midtown, Natomas, Where? I want to know so I don't
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Aug 2021
#17
I knew it! Midtown. I hate to say it because my mom raised me to be a lady...
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Aug 2021
#27
Guess what? If they were to pull a knife or gun, I guarantee the both of us would end up on the
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Sep 2021
#38