Thread by @HowardSteen4

Just back from my weekly visit to the local outdoor market for food provisioning. I felt that this week there were more people not wearing masks & with that encouragement, decided to risk entering a small electrical shop to purchase a replacement light bulb. Such mundane trivia -

of daily life has huge potential to become high drama during peak craziness Corona times in Germany. I crossed the threshold into 'safe' 2G space of the shop interior with great trepidation (being maskless & not injected with exp'tl gene substances or PCR certified 'recovered' -

Inside the shop, I stayed carefully out of view of the shop assistant serving a customer in front of me. Then another customer, a masked lady, entered the shop and spotted me. She immediately went on the attack with "Warum tragen Sie keine Maske?"(Why aren't you wearing a mask?)

To which I replied that I have a medical exemption certificate. That fortunately shut her up temporarily until it was my time to be served at which point she piped up again to demand the shop assistant examine my doctor's certificate!

Thankfully, the (now two) shop assistants were not interested in playing silly games to lose them business, however small, and when I turned & responded to the lady with "Sind Sie die Maskenpolizei?" they thought this was a great joke and proceeded to complete my transaction.

I would never have imagined that the simple act of purchasing a light bulb could turn into such a drama. For good measure I told the witless & frightened masked lady in no uncertain terms that my medical status is absolutely none of her business at all.