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

[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.