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My wife and I had to go into the county seat to pay delinquent property taxes (how’d we miss that? Well it’s fixed now) and renew our car registration (Happy Birthday, Maxwell the Smart! You’re seven years old today with 80,000 miles!)

Bridgeport is considered “severe risk for infection” so we’ve been avoiding going at all, but with the overdue taxes and approaching expiry of the car plates we cannot avoid it (such things must be done in person, thanks Gov. Ricketts).

I ran into my first feral conservative covidiot when we went to Dollar General. DG has a mandatory mask policy in Bridgeport due to the severe rating for the city. Said covidiot was standing outside the door of the store, no mask.

Going to stores, my wife and I generally drive together (she’s not big on driving) and only one goes into a store (reducing exposure or spread). For this visit she went in, because it was stuff she needed.

Anyway, covidiot comes up to my wife and starts berating her and threatening her over her mask. Guy is in his forties maybe, about four or five inches taller than me and about one hundred pounds heavier.

I came barreling out of the car screaming “what the FUQUE are you doing harassing my wife? What the FUQUE do you thing bullying a little old lady on a cane does?”

All 115# of righteous fury of me was getting between my wife and him, and although I expected to take a beating, I was going to take him out with me.

Instead, he ran off.

Inside the store, they’d said they already called the sheriff, but the car was elsewhere in the county and was still some time away.

After that we went to the butcher. They’ve got a new sign: Cash or check only. They pulled out their new credit card reader after people complained they were being charged 3% on their credit card bills by their companies. He told the company to get the credit card equipment.

Same at the liquor store, the gas station, and the supermarket. All have pulled credit card readers out and no longer accept them, because credit card companies charging you 3% to use your card is now a thing here.