When you go into a store these days

(from the parking lot) do you put your mask in your pocket and hope there is not a sign posted at the entry door of a mandate to wear a mask before entering the store?

I still see signs saying it's "recommended" leaving you the customer the option with a little hint of pressure "we'd prefer you wear one" ...yet some stores still have "required".

The best is when the signs says something about "Fully vaccinated customers can remove their masks" but it doesn't say anything about non vaccinated people.

oh I feel like a rebel "I dare someone to ask me if I am vaccinated" (I am not and do not want one)

Our State NC no longer has a government mandate on masks but it's left up to each business what they want (which I think is fair and how government should work).

so I walk in keeping my mask in my pocket...and I focused on who is wearing a mask inside...to see if I should put my mask on. LOL

the first employee I see without a mask, I know I am good to go...

I still see a lot of customers with them on... like at Lowes for example...it's still 75% masks for all inside

I walk around with this feeling some Karen is going to say something to me...and fearful of what I might say in reply.

the plastic glass walls are up everywhere and the 6' socials distance signs on the floor are likely to stay.

Yesterday I saw a little boy about 8 waiting on the school bus on a beautiful morning...he was wearing a mask (standing all by himself)... I felt sadness, he probably had to wear it to get on the bus. In my view he is of the lowest risk of us all...and yet he's wearing a mask outside by himself. smh

We still have a long ways to go in NC...to be and to feel fully free again