Credit where credit it due,
DU-Member ripcord nailed it:
ripcord (4,940 posts)
11. He is a child
Too bad one of you couldn't have been the adult.
The 12YO or 13YO was being a 12YO or 13YO.
EnergizedLib's response to the kid should have been, "Because I choose to. I don't owe you and explanation. Bye." And then walking off.
True
time ... I see a few people at work wearing masks pretty much every day. I feel zero need to ask them, "Why?" Perhaps I've realized that they are mostly from Taiwan, China, and SE Asia, and have been doing this, that I know of, pretty much every flu/cold/etc. season since I started at the company (several years pre-Covid). Different cultures, different ways of perceiving and mitigating risk.
Some day the middle-schooler will understand the wisdom of MYOB; I doubt that
EnergizedLib will ever get over his/her/??? need to virtue-signal.