The equipment to take a tire off of a rim and put a new one on is not one many people own :)
It was a flat.
In the end, the owner doesn’t want to get arrested like the pub owner did.
I don’t blame them. Like I said, easy for me to talk tough. It’s not my business.
But you’re right. Speaking in one voice is the best answer.
It’s also something that’s very difficult to set up.
There will always be those who do not want to rock the boat.
At least there’s a deli in my area that doesn’t care about masks if you go late, which is when I always go :)
And a junkyard probably wouldn’t care about masks for an extra 5 bucks :)
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
ciao FRiend
It's the same here in Nuevo Mehico. La Gobernadora has basically said she'll shut down businesses that don't enforce her mask mandate. Now, as we head into winter, her mandate is not more than 25% capacity or 75 total customers inside a store, whichever is fewer. So Costco, Walmart, Sam's Club, local supermarkets, etc. have massive lines of people all standing 4-6' apart outside in the cold. Rather than standing/walking a random distance apart in the warm stores. Albuquerque is desert, but we're a mile up, so we get cold winters. Windy, too. Yeah, like that won't make it easier to catch something.
I'm still trying to figure out if she's more evil than stupid or vice-versa.
We don't see any of this stuff I read about in New York and California and other states down here.
First off, I've never worn a mask. Or social distanced. Or locked down.
For a few months last summer around here there were people who wore masks and still are but many people don't wear them anymore. The signs on a few stores in town say masks are required per county commissioners' orders but nobody has ever enforced that requirement with me. I just go in without a mask and no one has ever said a word. I notice the local Subway sandwich joint has changed their sign to read, "Face coverings are requested." A little softer, more customer friendly approach.
Maybe it is because it is a small town. The big city is 35+ miles away and it may be more demanding but I seldom go there. I visited four businesses up north of here about 25 miles away last week in a medium sized town and few people were wearing masks. I had two flat tires on a trailer and nobody in the tire store or the car dealership that helped me had masks on. The Taco Bell I ate at while waiting had a masks are required sign on the door but nobody said anything about a mask when I walked in, ordered and sat down and ate lunch. And nor did Walmart when I went in there to pick up a few items. Some people were wearing masks but no one stopped me at the door.
Or maybe people feel that since the governor here is not being a hard ass dictator like some places I read about, that people figure they can assess their own risks and go about their lives without feeling like they are in Soviet Russia.
It feels like normal around here again. I pity the poor people in these blue states where the governors and mayors are practicing for their time in the limelight to be punk tyrants when the commies take office.