[ARC5] AB5S Kung Flu Update, 13 June - source?

[Scott Robinson]

Nonetheless, you have it right!

/scott

On 6/15/20 4:12 PM, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Oooops,
> 
> that was intended for Hue's private mail.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
> bark less - wag more
> 
> On 6/15/20 6:26 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>> The checker at Safeway said, "The customers can't see me smile".
>> I said, "Yes, but they also can't see if you frown".
>> I'm sure they are not cheerful with a certain number of creeps or 
>> incompetents.
>> I'm sure I have been one at some point. I salute the store staffs now 
>> too, among front-line workers.
>>
>> Ah so. A kind of oriental reserve, now. Ambiguous veiled expressions, 
>> no more handshakes or hugs.
>>
>> As long as I'm wasting bandwidth here with an OT post, a short story. 
>> When I was living in WA state
>> around 1990 something, Safeway employees got an instruction to amp up 
>> their "friendliness" by
>> some large magnitude. A lot of male customers interpreted that sudden 
>> feigned friendliness and
>> interest as the female checkers "coming on to them". I confess, single 
>> at the time, I kind of took
>> it that way too. Well, it didn't last long: the checkers rebelled 
>> about the unintended implications of
>> the new policy, and Safeway canned it and returned to normal business 
>> behavior policy.
>> -Hue
>>
>>> Masks, what masks, we don't need no filthy stinking masks...
>>        I got a nice supply of masks from Amazon and I think I will 
>> continue to wear them. Also gloves.
>>        I am getting used to faceless people. Maybe, when this is over, 
>> if it ever gets over, we will discover that they have atrophied from 
>> lack of use and  we don't have faces any more.
>> What ever will we do with all those mug shot cameras.
>>       Since you are dead I am glad you managed to work up enough 
>> ectoplasm to write.
>>
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