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Old 04-23-2020, 07:05 PM   #27
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Originally Posted by SailinAway View Post
In mid March, just as everyone was waking up to the reality of the crisis, I stepped aside to let a customer exit the dollar store, giving her 6 feet of space. She thought that was pretty funny. She made a scary face, wiggled her fingers at me, and said, "I'm going to GET you!!" and passed close to me. Her intent clearly was to make fun of me for thinking there was some kind of crisis going on. Sometimes you just have to ignore ignorance.
If you can’t understand a bit of social sarcasm with a stranger passing you in a store entry, you have a deeper problem...it’s called being human.
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