Yip, the VFW bar - *nobody* with a mask (except me)
My first time out last night there. They had the bar-bar taped off with police yellow tape. The table area was down to half the numbers of tables, sounds good, no? Well, card table size, with four to a table close. About 15 total old (susceptible) dudes. You know, *tough* John WAYNE (draft dodger) dudes who had things to say about the FLOYD funeral on t.v., not positive if you know what I mean.
Yea, John WAYNE and police yellow tape - mucho macho!1
My preference is to sit at the bar, but I weaved through the tables to one. I was the only one with a mask and listened hard for any suppressed snickers.
Supposedly, restricting the bar is to protect the barmaid. Uh, it's a long bar and seats there could be much farther from one another than at the card tables. Plus the barmaid now brings the products to the tables, leaning into the crowded dudes, but it does provide them more opportunity to leer down her front, so there's that.
**********ON EDIT: Update, today I called the headquarters of the VFW, asked whether the individual Posts are autonomous unto themselves, whether the headquarters can put out a statement, something like, "We STRONGLY recommend masks/distancing because we want to protect our members (who are in the highest risk category), blah blah." The dude wasn't redneck, listened, said he wears a mask everywhere and doesn't care what others (including our fellow members) think about him for it, that it would take a Statement from the top dog officer of the state and that he will pass my comment up.
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