The longer we are into this, the less that I even notice.
There are essentially 3 things that I have gotten my feathers ruffled over.
1. Last night, I went out to get an ice cream from an ice cream stand. The young gent that was standing there taking the orders at the walk up window writes my order down and then asks for my name. I look at him with a puzzled look and asked "why?" The young gent started saying something about tracking covid and I asked him in a hushed voice if someone working there had it in a tone acting like I was not trying to alarm anyone. He said of course not, so I said to him in that case, it doesn't matter what my name is.
He said that he was informed by the health department to ask, so I relented and told him my name was Benjamin. After he wrote that, he asked for my last name and I told him it was Dover.
I guess the young guy caught on that that old joke (Ben Dover) because about half way through writing the last name down on the ticket he said "shit" and stopped writing and just went and got my ice cream cone like he should have done in the first place.
2. About 2 weeks ago, my mother in law called me and asked if I would go pick up her cholesterol medicine from the clinic pharmacy. So, I said sure and when I walked into the double door and entered the building, there was a young nurse and the clinic administrator there in front of me with a line of 2 people in front of me taking their temperature and stuff as they came into the building. So, during all this, I stood in line and waited my turn and when I got up to the desk, I refused to let her take my temp. I told the administrator that I was only there to pick up my MIL prescription when she told me that they had to check for covid before allowing anyone to go inside.
This is where it got real interesting. I told her first off, if someone had covid that everyone that went into the building had the likelihood of contracting the illness because 1. we were already inside the building before being checked and 2. everyone had to pull the door open to get inside. And I said furthermore, if you have had even a rudimentary course in communicable diseases then she should know that by allowing the young nurse or intern to check everyone in front of me while failing to have her sterilize the equipment after rubbing it all over everyones face who had came in all day in front of me who may have possibly had it, that alone makes me refuse to let her rub that sickness all over my face too especially when I am not here for a medical evaluation and only wanted my MIL's med's.
At this point, the people behind me were all like "damn-he's right-they're not wiping it off" and the administrator looked like she filled up her pants in her own excrement and she told me that she would just have the pharmacist bring out the prescription and hand it off to me on the sidewalk.
She knew I was right, and the people standing in line behind me did too so I don't know if they have changed their policy about that by now or not, but just because I might look dumb, doesn't mean I don't have any sense at all.
The other thing I am not abiding by is the directional aisles at the grocery store. Most everyone else isn't either. I'm not walking around the store 4 times trying to get everything on my list.
This stuff is as retarded as you let it be.