I was at a sandwich shop late Friday to pickup a takeout order. There was a guy at the register and I patiently waited 6 feet back. He was clearly drunk and having trouble figuring out how to put his credit card in the machine. The clerk reached over to help him when he pulled back his card turned to me and yelled, “why are you still wearing a mask!?” Not wanting a confrontation with a drunk guy I answered simply, “pollution. I ride a bike.” Then he yelled, “No one cares!!”
He tried again for another minute or two to put his card in the card reader and he was just kind of hovering around it waving his card wildly. The clerk reached over again to try to help and he pulls back his card again, then leans over to the clerk, and in tv sitcom fashion “whispers” while gesturing at me, “this guy is judging me”. Then tries for another couple minutes to get his card in the machine. Finally the clerk is able to reach over and grab it from him and stick it in the machine.
I just thought this was funny and had to share. The drunk slurred speech of course made it funnier. I just smiled under my mask the whole time but after I left the store I just had to bust out laughing.
Sad that you had to make an excuse for being a socially responsible mask wearer just to appease a knuckledragger. Then again, women have had to do it for centuries.
I think the more poignant part of the story is he claimed he was being judged immediately after judging me.
I bet most people would not be able to guess this guy’s demographics and political leanings.