Maskless Maggat confronts me then cowers. A true and revealing event.

[bluewater]

I was shopping last Friday for groceries and was one of the few people in the store wearing a mask.

As I wheeled my cart down the coffee isle a forty year old looking guy, a guy much younger than me, a guy not wearing a mask, spotted me and headed straight towards me, agitated.

When he got within 15 feet of me or so he started shouting, "What are you afraid of, dude. What's with the f*cking mask..."

Not in the mood to engage this asshole, I replied "I'm wearing it because I don't feel well."

Seriously, the guy stopped dead in his tracks and the color drained from his face. He literally backed away and left the isle without saying another word.

So much for another fearless and maskless Trumper, eh?

[malaise]

1. I love this OP

Get thee to the greatest page - he's more afraid of Covid than the rest of us

[TheBlackAdder]

101. And added bonus would have been: Come here, you want a taste of it?

[malaise]

104. or Do you know if I have it?

[StarryNite]

2. That's great!

I'm going to remember that one, it could come in handy!

[Throck]

3. I may get a body camera to start collecting video on these clown asses.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. Perfect response!

[homegirl]

52. MY R.N. daughter

had a similar experience. She plugged his pie hole by responding " I just came from the local hospital where as a nurse I was exposed 30 minutes ago to a COVID patient," as she removed her mask and walked toward him. Hasty retreat by dumbass dude!

[Bluesaph]

103. I love El Paso people

Beautiful, gracious, polite! Never met a bully in El Paso. And did I mention good looking?

[Scruffy1]

5. One of the greatest one liners ever.

thankfully we don't have many people like him in El Paso. If nothing else people here are just too polite to argue or make a scene.

[Maru Kitteh]

64. I miss El Paso. I lived there for 2 years in the late 80's

Sweet, kind, fun town.

[bobandrileysmom]

76. Hello fellow El Pasan! Nt

[Leghorn21]

6. blue, you done made my day!!!

WELL DONE!!!

[SweepPicker]

7. I'm still waiting

to be confronted by a maskhole. I'm 58 and a pretty big guy. Most people in my area know me. Not once has anyone said anything like that to me. I've been hoping it would happen so I can embarrass them, but not a peep.

[NoMoreRepugs]

9. Keep us informed of your progress Picker - I'm kinda in the same mood most of the time.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

13. I doubt anyone will give you trouble, they target women and elder men

A big guy isn’t likely to be confronted!

[Dan]

95. Some of my females friends say the same thing.

Female friends works at Sheri’s and another at the book store - both have been confronted by guys that really got in their face, and it’s intimidating for them.

My wife has never been confronted, or course we usually go out together.

Nor, has any of our females friends when I escort them somewhere.

[Mariana]

15. "I'm 58 and a pretty big guy."

They won't ever bother you, then. They prefer to harass women, teenagers, and apparently frail old people.

[SunSeeker]

58. Exactly. nt

[Treefrog]

78. I'm older than you and a petite woman.

I live in a red area, and it hasn’t happened to me yet either.

[Oppaloopa]

81. 71 female in Florida rides a scooter happened twice

[Treefrog]

84. Who wears a mask on a scooter?

[Oppaloopa]

107. I do especially in the grocery store.

[CanonRay]

8. I'm more of the "mind you own fucking business" type of responder.

[GoCubsGo]

74. Yep. You don't owe these assholes a reason.

[Unwind Your Mind]

97. I like that

I have no patience with stupidity these days

[CanonRay]

99. Yeah, I'm all out of fucks to give

[Pluvious]

10. The thing to do if they don't run off right away...

... Is to demask and walk towards them saying I'm not worried about catching it, just didn't want to possibly give it to the nice check out girls.

Then stop and bend down with some coughing.

[Leghorn21]

14. Yes, yes, P, and punctuate the coughs with some bigly faux SNEEZES!!!

[SCantiGOP]

11. I posted a month ago

about a friend who had someone politely tell him that he didn’t need his mask, and he replied that he knew that but his doctor had made him agree to wear it since he has tested positive. Same ending as the OP: the mask opponent beat a hasty retreat.

[nykym]

12. That's a good one

another I heard is
It's not a mask it's an IQ test

[ShazzieB]

100. THAT is the one I want to use if I ever have the opportunity!

Hasn't happened so far, but you never know.

[JoanofArgh]

16. Best OP title ever.

[bluewater]

17. Thank you!

I have my moments. lol

[IronLionZion]

18. Love it!

People run from me anyway because I have that H1B Indian variant "look"

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. Not even an apology

or "I hope you start to feeling better." No empathy or sympathy from these people. Selfish assholes, only looking out for themselves.

[beaglelover]

20. Where the fuck do you live that people would actually act this way.

Not saying I don't believe your story, but this would never happen here in S. Cal. where I live. People just aren't confrontational assholes here.

[bluewater]

23. Eastern Connecticut

A lot of Trumpers out here, many more than you would imagine for a blue state.

You go one town in from the shore line here and it gets red real fast.

[beaglelover]

26. Wow, I would never have suspected that. I grew up in N. NJ but have lived out here since 1988.

[bluewater]

28. The naval base in New London adds to it too.

Many of the submariners retire in the area in the less expensive inland towns, but close enough they can shop at the bases PX.

But most of the Trumpers are just white nutmeggers, our state nickname, with a nativist streak. Eastern Connecticut used to be very purple even though it's now more lean blue. We had a congressional race here not that long ago that was won by just 21 votes.

[wnylib]

47. Western NY is like that. Buffalo

and some of its suburbs are very blue. But other Buffalo suburbs are red. The farther from Buffalo you go, the redder it gets. Rural villages, small towns, dairy farms are all very red except a couple small cities.

I am in a small city surrounded by rural Magats and a handful of them within the city. I am a 5 foot senior woman. I have had young men in stores follow me to the checkout in order to deliberately crowd around me there. They don't address me directly, but joke among themselves about masks. One cashier orderd a man to back up from me and he argued with her until she said she was calling the manager. Another time, different store, I told them it wasn't necessary to crawl inside my clothes and they backed off when the cashier glared at them.

Just because I am a short, old woman wearing a mask.

[mindfulNJ]

68. I live in a very small Eastern CT town as well

and you are spot on bluewater! When we went to register to vote when we first moved in(as Dems of course), the Dem registrar practically hugged us...not many of us around here!

[Treefrog]

41. I live in a red area, and it would never happen where I am either.

Seems most of these stories come out of blue states. Interesting.

[barbtries]

61. are you serious?

they're everywhere. I'm from CA too.

this is not covid specific but it is about someone who just went off on someone for daring to exist. she was enraged. It happened in Torrance, the city in which i grew up.

[AverageOldGuy]

62. Just wait . . .

" . . . in S. Cal. where I live. People just aren't confrontational assholes here. "

I'm betting you just haven't met a local one yet -- they are there, they are everygoddamwhere -- Trump brought them out of hiding.

[JHB]

65. Geez, anywhere there are enough cultists to let them feel their oats...

...and think they can berate people without pushback.

They'll target anyone they think is an easy mark for pushing around, just like any bully.

[Arresting]

85. Where in S Cal do you live?

Seriously BeagleLover . . .

Where is this utopia?

Because I live in Southern California, moved here 5 years ago, and I have met more confrontational assholes here, than pretty much any other place I've lived (and I've lived all over the country).

Chicago would be the one place I've lived that was on par. Lots of assholes there in the 1990s. Probably didn't help that I worked with the public, but still . . .

[beaglelover]

89. North Hollywood. Never encountered a confrontational asshole in my 33

years of living in various cities in So Cal......Hollywood, Bev Hills, West Hollywood, Studio City and now North Hollywood.

[Arresting]

108. My grandmother lived in North Hollywood in the 70s.

Her neighbor was murdered in a gang shooting.

Consider yourself blessed, I now live in the house she bought just after that incident. In north OC. It's better here than Huntington Beach or south OC, but not by too much.

I literally have a video of someone threatening to punch a Trader Joes employee over a mask, this was last December when it was critical everyone wear them.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. Bullies are all cowards at heart.

And the shitstains that keep screaming at maskers about "you're living in fear!!!!" are the same useless turdgobs that think they have to take their guns to the state fair or the grocery store, are terrified that "illegals" are taking everything over, are terrified of "socialists" and "communists" and "scientists" and "knowledge" and women, brown people, disabled people, rich people who aren't MAGA, creative people, academics, educated people, and their own sexuality.

[33taw]

22. I had a Dr. tell me to start coughing loudly in front of unmasked people and watch them clear out.

I did it once in a grocery store to a guy who felt he had to stand six inches from me. Same thing, panic and he moved really fast.

[Treefrog]

67. Yuck, that would gross me out to cough into my mask.

My shopping trips have somehow never been hindered by all these people who seemingly prowl the aisles looking for the masked.

[33taw]

70. It worked and I have only had to do it once. The man had his mask on his chin.

I think he may have just walked up not being cognizant of others.

[niyad]

92. I carry a number of masks with me. I would just switch it out in the restroom.

[MissMillie]

24. I don't understand why they feel the need to confront mask-wearers

If (and that's a HUGE "if&quot they refuse to wear one because of "freedom" aren't we allowed to wear them for the same reason?

[Wounded Bear]

59. But it's not your freedom they care about, just theirs...

[wendyb-NC]

25. Ha ha

That must have short circuited his neural pathways corrupted by the GQP derangement syndrome.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

27. You are awesome!!!

[Aviation Pro]

29. Interesting how these roid enhanced assclowns....

...like to confront people smaller than them.

I've never been confronted even in Florida's less than intelligent counties, but then again a 46" chest and 17" biceps carries a certain command presence.

And yes, I can claim and have been tested as a Natty Daddy.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. K&R

[fescuerescue]

31. Why does everyone here always have all these great grocery line adventures?

I must shop at just the boring grocery stores cause that stuff never happens to me.


I'm jealous. I want a grocery story to post here too.

[KS Toronado]

37. Simple, go to some red town where Qrump won.

Covidiots will be there.

[Treefrog]

43. Except these stories seem to come out of blue towns.

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I live in a red town. It’s ne’er happened to me or anyone I know.

[ecstatic]

90. Perhaps too many people are armed in red towns?

[sarisataka]

40. Ditto

No one ever randomly talks to me about Covid, politics or much of anything else. I must look unapproachable.

[ecstatic]

88. Lol! Make one up

Some of the stories may not be true but I get a good laugh nonetheless.

[niyad]

96. My favourite grocery store story came in the Before Times, the '16 campaign. I had

been hearing about all the t***** supporters, but had not actually seen one in my slightly bluer area of fundieville. I walked into the store, and a woman was standing by one of the floral displays, wearing the red t**** t-shirt. As I walked past, I said, "It is so handy when idiots self-identify," smiled at her, and kept walking. I encountered her later, and she just glared at me as I shook my head.

Cannot imagine how that scene would play out these days.

[Evolve Dammit]

32. Perfect. His fear is refreshing. They fucking know. Just want to be bad ass and own the libs.

[KS Toronado]

33. When I see someone looking at me funny

while I'm one of the few wearing a mask, I just start coughing real loud and act like I'm having trouble catching
my breath. One day a masked lady came rather quickly to see if I was OK, I informed her I was just clearing the
aisle of anti-maskers. We had a good laugh and she said she was going to start doing the same. We sure in the
hell don't need antivaxers & antimaskers close to us when we're playing by the rules and they're not.

[lagomorph777]

49. LOL!

[Vinca]

34. That's perfect. Next time throw in a cough for good measure.

[Niagara]

35. Kicking for visibility!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

36. For what it's worth, this old person

who always wears a mask in stores, has never been confronted by anyone. I'm short, not tall and intimidating. Perhaps I simply give off a "Don't fuck with me" vibe all the time.

[PatSeg]

38. Oh, that was perfect!

[lagomorph777]

39. Hah! The ultimate weapon against these idiots.

You really tested his resolve to not "live in fear." He failed.

[nuxvomica]

42. I suspect the MAGAts are more afraid than we are

Their response is denial, instead of taking action, because they want to wish COVID away. And people who wear masks or get vaccinated are a direct threat to this denial. They think we are giving COVID the power that they are struggling desperately to deny to it.

[lagomorph777]

51. If so, they have it exactly backwards.

[cate94]

44. That was perfect! N/t

[Warpy]

45. I think you've hit on the perfect respnose to them

Best way to get rid of them is not to ignore them and walk away, it's to scare the crap out of them.

[hamsterjill]

46. Great response!!!

They're a bunch of weenies, aren't they?

They are big and tough and loud...until someone confronts them. That's their super power; they don't think anyone will confront them, and they are surprised and frightened when someone does.

[2naSalit]

48. I start coughing, they move away fast!

[calimary]

50. This is OUTSTANDING, bluewater! Bravo!

That confrontational bluster apparently is their “mask” - literally “masking” their inner cowardice.

You just proved it.

Don’t see many confrontationals where we are here in NW Oregon. It’s pretty blue here, and generally well-masked. But I’m gonna remember your response to apply if some Maggat jerk tries to give this little old lady any shit for wearing a mask (as I ALWAYS do).

Btw - I call ‘em “Maggats” too. Cuz that’s what their shitty, selfish, thoughtless, thoroughly inconsiderate, and belligerent behavior proves they are.

[Bluethroughu]

53. Lol.

[Iggo]

54. Not Living In Fear is not going so well for this guy.

[peppertree]

55. You were lucky

Some of the ones I've known, would double down after hearing that - on the assumption that, not feeling well, one would be easier to intimidate.

Which makes them lowlifes (again, some).

That said, that was a great answer.

[Liberty Belle]

56. Yep. I've told some I've been around my daughter who works in an ICU ward with dying COVID patients.

Which is true. I resisted the urge to take off the mask and cough on them.

Sometimes I've added, truthfully, that over 95% of those on ventilators with COVID die.

[Wounded Bear]

57. Like the doctor said, turn your head and cough...

[MuseRider]

60. I love that answer!

I will remember that. Hopefully won't need it but that just pretty much ends the conversation.

[JHB]

63. "What are you afraid of?" Lemmings.

[GoodRaisin]

66. Somewhat surprised I haven't been confronted by a magat while wearing my masks.

Maybe they are afraid I might swing my cane at them.

[mrsadm]

69. I loved your response - I'll be using it myself!

[3catwoman3]

71. I hope you scared...

…the shit out of him.

[Joinfortmill]

72. Very interesting.

They know the truth then. Deep down, theybkmow.

[keithbvadu2]

73. Proper procedure...

Proper procedure...

1. Step closer
2. Drop mask
3. Cough
4. Explain feeling sick.

3 and 4 can be reversed

[halfulglas]

75. So the line running through this whole thread is they are brave and

not afraid of COVID because none of their friends have it and they are healthy with good even superior genes, but coming face to face with the possibility of somebody near them being sick that's another story. Oops forgot something in the other aisle.

[brewens]

77. I might say, I tested positive but the masks stop it right? n/t

[rdking647]

79. i did something similar

guy was giving me grief about wearing a mask.

so i started coughing.

he couldnt get away from me fast enough

[LaMouffette]

80. Thank you for this! I will use your response. I passed two unmasked women at Walmart today.

They looked at me in my mask, then after they went by, one of them muttered in disgust, "Christ!"

I wish I had said (but wouldn't have because I'm too chicken), "Oh, hey! Say hello to him for me when you die of Covid!"

[Moebym]

82. Their toughness act is just that

An act. When danger approaches, they're the first to run away or seek shelter.

[BigmanPigman]

83. I wish I could remember that if anyone confronts me.

Usually I just stand there with an open mouth and no words coming out until I get home and think of a zinger.

[TNNurse]

86. Excellent, thank you.

[ecstatic]

87. Lol! I am so glad I don't come across these aggressive maskholes

in my day to day travels. Even when I come across maskless folks, they mind their own business.

[BlueIdaho]

91. "If you want what I've got, I'll gladly take my mask off"

Is my usual reply to these morons.

[Demovictory9]

93. lol

[AllaN01Bear]

94. great answer and comeback. ill remember this .

[DFW]

102. You could have followed with....

"Damn, I knew I should have gotten that damn vaccine when I had the chance. What an asshole I was...."

He would probably have set an Olympic record reaching the end of the aisle.

[empedocles]

105. Great one

[Javaman]

106. they don't believe in masks, until they do. LOL.

just one of the many disingenuous right wing anti-mask, antivaxx assholes.