Depressing shit-show at the Walgreens today ...
The past couple weeks mask use has been way up at my local red-area Walgreens, which was heartening. But today I went in, it was more busy than I've seen it in weeks (saw about 12 people in total) ... and literally NOBODY but me (and employees) were in masks.
There was even some idiot woman rocking her 'Fuck Social Distancing' t-shirt.
We were at adjacent registers, and at one point I heard her say she's having trouble understanding the middle-eastern gentleman ringing her up, and she was like 'between your accent and the mask, I'm having a hard time hearing you'. Not in a mean way, but ...
You don't how hard it was to bite my tongue in that moment.
Actually some of you probably do 
I at least wanted to blurt out 'Clever Shirt!' and have her say something like 'Yeah' and then I go 'Totally keeps people the fuck away from you right? It's genius!' and then just walk away and leave her to figure it out on her own.
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legitimately polite kinds of things, where she was just explaining why she was asking him to repeat something for the third time ... she wasn't being a bitch to my man Akal (who I see ALL THE TIME and is a super sweet man) or I would've stuck my nose into it and told her what's what.
I was already really annoyed with the shirt thing though, so I almost snapped anyway 
(other than her stupid shirt) quite crossed the line that would've made it 'okay' for me to give her a hard time ... happened.
If this kind of nonsense keeps happening around me, good chance I'll have an even better story of protesting the idiocy to share here pretty soon.
And given how thin my patience is, it'll possibly be one that involves cops, Maricopa County jail, and me getting my ass beat ... because it won't involve a physically tiny, 60 year old woman.
Then like 2 secs later I'm like 'oh wait, that's a really stupid idea, I'm staying WAY away from that disease factory!' ... and as I stood in line behind her was when I was formulating my alternate (and much safer) smart-ass way of f***ing with her that I expressed in the OP
The signs on entrances to stores and businesses now say that masks are only required for the unvaccinated - and they're using "the honor system." So you can imagine how that's going. 
Thing is, I have no idea how that's going in terms of actual compliance. Bit of a 'Black Box' situation.
Delta/infection numbers, however, suggest (but don't prove) that this particular scheme ain't going too well.
I’ve often realized years after the fact what I should have said in a situation! Kind of a curse, actually….
Then there’s always the “If ESP could kill” phenomenon, which sounds more like your experience in this case. (Another trait we share!)
I remember I was in a large store the weekend after Amy Coney Barrett was nominated and seeing an older couple attired in “upscale casual” togs — probably just stopping off on their way to the country club. They were yukking it up, walking maskless all over the establishment (where almost everybody was masked), obviously convinced the world was their oyster. I glared at them, but they probably didn’t notice my menacing narrowed eyes through my fogged-up glasses.
I like to imagine them the day of the Four Seasons Total Landscaping “All the Networks!” debacle, crying in their cocktails as we drove around town cheering, waving hats out the car windows, and honking at every intersection where jubilant people were brandishing Biden-Harris signs.
