Seriously?

“The world needs less heat and more light.”

 -Wilfred Peterson

Seriously?

Yesterday afternoon, Susan and I ran out to do some grocery shopping.I try to limit these excursions,once a week to the grocery store and maybe another trip to the market for a quick fillin.

I am not a fan of wearing a mask so I do all that I can to stay away from places and situations where they are required.

All of the new protocols that have been instituted to simply grocery shop are annoying to me.

Masks,one way aisles,limits on certain items,and the scarcity of essentials like toilet paper and now dinner napkins.

Over the last 10 weeks, I have accepted what is and dealt with it.

That was until yesterday's trip to the store.

At the checkout, where of course I stand 20 feet away from the person in front of me (behind the line is about 20 feet from the end of the register where the guy in front of me is bagging his groceries),I waited to checkout.

When it was our turn, we began loading our groceries onto the belt,Susan in front of the wagon near the plexiglass barricade nd me at the back of the cart.

Eventually the cart was empty and I went on to pay for the transaction. I noticed that Susan was bagging and the cashier, you know that essential worker that I am supposed to thank for his diligence and commitment during this crisis,was just standing there.

On the way out of the store, I stopped by the courtesy counter to ask if this is in fact some new protocol,to not help bag.

I was told that yes it is.

If you let them bag your items in plastic bags, you know the same plastic bags that 5 months ago were deemed illegal as using them would surely bring about the end of life on Earth due to global warming,then they will assist in the process. However, if you bring the bags that you were asked to buy so as not to bring about the apocalypse, then in fact, you are required to bag everything yourself.

Seriously? Now you're just making s#!t up.

Let me get this straight.

Gloveles,you handle each of the items that I handled , again without gloves, but somehow putting them in my bag,you remember,the bag that you had me buy because the bag that you are now willing to bag in which was illegal a few weeks back, is now the okay.

And we put up with this crap!

Am I the only person in the world that has an issue with this.

10 weeks ago, we were asked to help out to FLATTEN the curve, not rid the world of this virus. You can't hide from a virus.

This will not be the last virus and quite honestly there is no empirical evidence that this particular virus is worse than anyone of a number of other such outbreaks that have occurred throughout history.

But somehow, I am endangering lives by using my bags from home instead of the illegal contraband that the stores are now trying to get us to use.

I give up!