The same thing happened to me when I walked into a FedEx store on Merritt Island in Florida last Saturday. I was intending to ship a birthday gift to my granddaughter when the masked employee, a young woman I guessed to be about 20 years of age or so, insisted I don a mask. In Florida. Where our governor has declared the mask mandate null and void.
She and I were the only ones in the FedEx facility. The place was empty except for us.
Good morning, I sang out.
“You have to wear a mask,” she said.
The young woman employee refused to serve me unless and until I put on a mask. I politely told her I don’t wear a mask. She kept insisting she wouldn’t serve me – a customer — unless I wore a mask. When I again repeated that I don’t wear a mask, and questioned why she should be concerned as she was already masked, she pointed to a purple circle on the carpet six feet away and told me I had to stand there, which was perfectly ridiculous. How could I take care of sending off the package, filling out the form, etc. from a “socially distant” six feet away, I asked. She continued to repeat that she couldn’t handle the transaction unless I put on a mask.
I won’t go into the ensuing back and forth, other than to say she refused to handle my shipment and slapped a piece of paper on the countertop indicating the address of another FedEx outlet in a nearby town.
This poor young woman appeared to be paranoid about “catching CoVid.” PARANOID.
I left the store and drove to the next FedEx facility, and as often happens, I thought of something I should have said to her: “I don’t want to get any closer to you than you do me. That mask you’re wearing is bacteria-laden and foul, and I have no desire to be within breathing distance of your filthy face rag.”
sigh…
So off I drove to the next FedEx store where I was treated with courtesy by the employee who though she was masked as ordered by the FedEx policy, had no problem giving me the customer service I’ve come to expect from FedEx.
Let me repeat: this incident took place at the FedEx store on State Road 520 on Merritt Island , FL. — just so we’re clear. And I will never give that FedEx store my business again. Ever.
Here’s a video of another American who ran into a similar situation this past weekend, and my hat’s off to him for standing his ground and not backing down from defending his Constitutional rights. A brave man, and a patriot.
How the One Worlders were able to pull this off is unexplainable apart from God himself sending a strong delusion so these folks will believe what they want to believe. The average man lacks discernment and the ability to judge according to knowledge and reason. They are devoid of the fruits of righteousness.
I applaud you for standing your ground and trying to break thru to the poor girl. This fear and paranoia that is prisoning these people is very real. I have tried to break thru and reason with them and each time leave the interaction disturbed. It’s not the interaction that is the disturbing part. It’s annoying to have my rights ignored, but there is something more here. What is so disturbing is how tightly locked in the fear and paranoia these people are. I’ve never seen anything like it. It’s almost like the WANT to be scared? Smart people parroting the most ludicrous crap convinced the sky will fall if they even think about taking off the muzzle. I am not sure what to do with people like this, but it’s a problem. Of all the idiots I encounter in my day to day travels (for the world is full of them) these poor muzzled idiots need help the most. And, sadly, they are the ones who can’t hear the words coming out of our free breathing mouths. We may as well be speaking different languages.