Dummies can't seem to stop hating the world and telling fellow DUmmies about it.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217918153Tue May 16, 2023, 12:01 AM
Star Member wnylib (17,993 posts)
Creepy experience with a MAGA store owner today.
There is a small store near me that I often pass on my way to other places in the neighborhood. It sells t-shirts, odds and ends, and scented wax warmers. So I wanted to ask about the wax warmers which were in a window display and marked 20% off.
I continue to wear a mask due to underlying health issues. I barely stepped inside the door when a loud voice from the back yelled at me that masks are not permitted in the store. It was the owner, who then ordered me to remove the mask or leave.
I wish that I could say that I handled it with finesse and a clever comeback, like congratulating him for such a successful business that he could afford to turn customers away. The store rarely has people inside and I do wonder how he stays in business.
Instead, I was so startled by the abrupt, loud voice and craziness of being barred for wearing an N95 that I got angry and dropped a few curse words at him while flipping him off. I left and turned the corner to head for a convenience store.
I have a hiatal hernia which causes acid reflux into my mouth sometimes. I also have asthma which means that in anxious, emotional situations, my bronchial tubes spasm and cause me to cough, bringing up clear fluid and acid reflux into my mouth. When that happens outdoors, I turn my head to the side, and bend out to spit away from my body to avoid "blowback" onto me. When I did that, I was on the side of that store and a couple drops hit the exterior of the MAGAt's store window. It was clear, like drops of water.
Suddenly he was outdoors screaming at me that I had just spit on his window and that he caught it on camera. He said that he was going inside to report me for vandalism. I asked what his problem was with the fact that I need a mask and he screamed back at me that he did not have to answer that question.
I went on to the convenience store and then to a branch of the local library which was just a couple blocks away. When I returned, two guys who live in my apt. complex were outdoors. They are both RWers so I never mention politics to them and have kept a superficially friendly passing acquaintance with them. I asked them if they knew the name of the guy who owns the store on the corner. They not only knew his name, but said that they personally know him. Then, without me mentioning it, they brought up the mask issue and told me that it's the owner's prerogative to ban masks in his store. I said yes, it is, but he's still a wacko for doing it. I also said that it was political fanaticism and that I considered myself lucky that he didn't come after me with a gun.
That store owner must have a closer relationship with my 2 neighbors than I realized. (Same RW organizations?) He must have told them about the mask incident after I left.
Time to look for a saner neighborhoid.
SO... DUmmie has a fit cuz it's veritue signalling doesn't work, gets tossed and spits on the guys windows cuz it didn't get it's way.
That sounds closer to the truth than this tale of projected strength that never happened.
Response to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)Tue May 16, 2023, 12:41 AM
Star Member wnylib (17,993 posts)
5. The store next to that one is a small convenience store.
It has a sign on the entrance that says, in large bold letters, "Guns are welcome here."
I am surrounded by RWNJs.
Response to applegrove (Reply #6)Tue May 16, 2023, 12:44 AM
Star Member wnylib (17,993 posts)
7. I don't know how he stays in business.
He never seems to have customers. He spends his time in the back of the store watching people pass by on the street on his security camera.
Well, sounds like there are roving DUmmies in his neighborhood, one has to keep an eye on the spitting baboons to make sure they aren't vandalizing stuff in the name of George Floyde
Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #9)Tue May 16, 2023, 01:54 AM
Star Member wnylib (17,993 posts)
11. It's insane that a health issue has been so politicized.
There are a couple other senior housing complexes in town, so I'm checking out what's available at what prices.
ya think?
