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For fifteen years I've lived in an outstate Minnesota town of about 3,500 people. It's very Lake Wobegon, and it's said that if someone doesn't wave at you on the street it's only because they have a broken arm.
There are four mom and pop restaurants and three fast food places. All are open limited hours, providing varying degrees of curbside pickup only. Yesterday I stopped in at one of the mom and pops to pick up some dinner. I wear a mask when I leave the house, and about half my fellow citizens do too.
When I pulled up to pick up, the owner of the restaurant met me at the curb. He took a look at my mask and said,
"Well. I see you've drank the Kool-Aid."
I've known this guy for years and never expected that. I got my dinner and headed home. But I always think of the right thing to say after the fact. What I should have said:
"I sleep better at night, knowing that nobody will get sick because of me."
Small Town Minnesota. Sometimes you just have to shake your head.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)mac56
(17,566 posts)What about "Thanks for your business"?
KS Toronado
(17,187 posts)scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)rurallib
(62,403 posts)Rorey
(8,445 posts)I may have added that a jerk like him deserves to go under.
enough
(13,255 posts)The people who drank the kool-aid were the ones who died following a crazed leader, not the ones who stayed alive.
Lokee11
(235 posts)The owner of the restaurant is the one drinking the Orange Kool-Aid, dam these Covidiots cannot even get their dumb ass remarks factually correct
FDT!!!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and the MAGAts are raving idiots like all of them everywhere else.
When this restaurant was open for normal service I assume customers were expected to wear shirts and shoes, and that the employees were required to wash their hands after using the restroom - all for the sake of public health? If you should ever do business at this place again, you might ask him why he requires those things but thinks people who wear masks are delusional.
mac56
(17,566 posts)Rural communities with smaller hospitals are starting to get hit.
fierywoman
(7,679 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,659 posts)In its statement of termination, MPR announced that Keillor would keep his executive credit for the show, but that since he owns the trademark for the phrase "prairie home companion", they would cease rebroadcasting episodes of A Prairie Home Companion featuring Keillor and remove the trademarked phrase from the radio show hosted by Chris Thile. MPR also eliminated its business connections to PrairieHome.org and stopped distributing Keillor's daily program The Writer's Almanac. The Washington Post also canceled Keillor's weekly column when they learned he had continued writing columns, including a controversial piece criticizing Al Franken's resignation because of sexual misconduct allegations, without revealing that he was under investigation at MPR. Several fans wrote MPR to protest his firing, and within the month, 153 members had canceled their memberships because of it. In January 2018, Keillor announced he was in mediation with MPR over the firing. On January 23, 2018, MPR News reported further on the investigation after interviewing almost 60 people who had worked with Keillor. The story described other alleged sexual misconduct by Keillor, and a $16,000 severance check for a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her from talking about her time at MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).
Keillor received a letter from the MPR CEO, Jon McTaggart, dated April 5, 2018, confirming that both sides wanted archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be publicly available again. In April 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement under which MPR would restore the online archives. On November 29, 2017, the Star Tribune reported that Minnesota Public Radio was terminating all business relationships with Keillor as a result of "allegations of his inappropriate behavior with an individual who worked with him." In January 2018, MPR CEO Jon McTaggart elaborated that they had received allegations of "dozens" of sexually inappropriate incidents from the individual, including requests for sexual contact. Keillor has denied any wrongdoing and said his firing stems from an incident when he touched a woman's bare back while trying to console her. He stated he apologized to her soon after, that they had already made up, and that he was surprised to hear the allegations when her lawyer called.
In its statement of termination, MPR announced that Keillor would keep his executive credit for the show, but that since he owns the trademark for the phrase "prairie home companion", they would cease rebroadcasting episodes of A Prairie Home Companion featuring Keillor and remove the trademarked phrase from the radio show hosted by Chris Thile. MPR also eliminated its business connections to PrairieHome.org and stopped distributing Keillor's daily program The Writer's Almanac.[63] The Washington Post also canceled Keillor's weekly column when they learned he had continued writing columns, including a controversial piece criticizing Al Franken's resignation because of sexual misconduct allegations, without revealing that he was under investigation at MPR. Several fans wrote MPR to protest his firing, and within the month, 153 members had canceled their memberships because of it. In January 2018, Keillor announced he was in mediation with MPR over the firing. On January 23, 2018, MPR News reported further on the investigation after interviewing almost 60 people who had worked with Keillor. The story described other alleged sexual misconduct by Keillor, and a $16,000 severance check for a woman who was asked to sign a confidentiality agreement to prevent her from talking about her time at MPR (she refused and never deposited the check).
Keillor received a letter from the MPR CEO, Jon McTaggart, dated April 5, 2018, confirming that both sides wanted archives of A Prairie Home Companion and The Writer's Almanac to be publicly available again. In April 2018, MPR and Keillor announced a settlement under which MPR would restore the online archives.
I've met Keillor. He's very quiet and reticent, almost Aspergers-ish; seemed to me like the last guy on earth who would be sexually inappropriate.
fierywoman
(7,679 posts)women who spoke against him, but I will tell you, he was fun to flirt with. "Complicated" is exactly the right word!
Cha
(297,029 posts)tanyev
(42,541 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)I didn't know you were one of those". The guy is pitiful, and getting pissed does not do anything. It just put up a wall, and for now, the relationship has changed.
Mariana
(14,854 posts)babylonsister
(171,049 posts)I just don't get it.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Spend them where you dont get stupid comments.
I would have said, It was flavor aid, not kool aid you stupid moron.
They used flavor aid at Jonestown in 1978.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)admitted that it was probably a mistake to have the shutdown. Now, when he can't remember which one said that then you know something is wrong with them. He told me he listens to the real news not the fake stuff. Closest encounter to the clueless I have had. I have known who this guy is for years and it kind of surprised me but then I do live on one of the most red counties in western Washington.
SCantiGOP
(13,867 posts)Unless they are bigger and maybe crazy looking, my answer will be, Because Im not an asshole.
Hekate
(90,617 posts)I like your second-thoughts, too: "I sleep better at night, knowing nobody will get sick because of me."
mbusby
(823 posts)"I didn't order Kool-Aid..."
appalachiablue
(41,113 posts)Let's see how things are in another 6 weeks, and 6 months. Remember this jackass.
pink
(497 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)I drank the koolaid? Well I want my money back since I don't want a disease. And then dropped the food on the ground