Dinner's Good, Masking Isn't
Sep. 28th, 2021 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerBack in Truckee, Calif - Saturday, 25 Sep 2021. 10pm.
We're back at the hotel after a good day driving and hiking in the Gold Lakes Basin. After our last hike at Frazier Falls we headed down the mountain to the small resort town of Graeagle in search of dinner. It would be a lot closer than driving back to Truckee for eats. The choices there are relatively few as it really is a small resort town, but we figured we could eat outdoors at a hamburger stand at the town's one intersection if nothing else. Well, the hamburger stand was closed— for the season, apparently— but that was okay because we'd already found a Mexican food restaurant on Yelp. We were in the mood for Mexican food.
The Mexican restaurant was like a stealth Mexican restaurant. Its name was White, middle-American; its look was White, middle-American; and its clientele were almost all White, middle-American. Most of the menu items had White, middle-American names, too, but they were basically all Mexican dishes.
Also White, middle-American was the level of mask compliance at the restaurant. A sign at the front door stated that everyone entering was required to wear a mask, by restaurant policy and county health order. "Don't be a Maskhole," the sign warned. But upon entering we saw that more than half the staff were working without masks. Over the course of the evening most customers entered without masks, and nobody said a thing to them. Thankfully there was well-spaced outdoor seating for us.
People ignoring mask rules is common at the hotel here, too. Here, like at the restaurant, signs on the door and at the front desk state that by business policy and county health rules masks are required everywhere indoors except in private rooms. Yet while here, at least, the staff are wearing masks, mask compliance among customers is about 25%.
It'll be nice to get back home to where it's nearly 100%.
We're back at the hotel after a good day driving and hiking in the Gold Lakes Basin. After our last hike at Frazier Falls we headed down the mountain to the small resort town of Graeagle in search of dinner. It would be a lot closer than driving back to Truckee for eats. The choices there are relatively few as it really is a small resort town, but we figured we could eat outdoors at a hamburger stand at the town's one intersection if nothing else. Well, the hamburger stand was closed— for the season, apparently— but that was okay because we'd already found a Mexican food restaurant on Yelp. We were in the mood for Mexican food.
The Mexican restaurant was like a stealth Mexican restaurant. Its name was White, middle-American; its look was White, middle-American; and its clientele were almost all White, middle-American. Most of the menu items had White, middle-American names, too, but they were basically all Mexican dishes.
Also White, middle-American was the level of mask compliance at the restaurant. A sign at the front door stated that everyone entering was required to wear a mask, by restaurant policy and county health order. "Don't be a Maskhole," the sign warned. But upon entering we saw that more than half the staff were working without masks. Over the course of the evening most customers entered without masks, and nobody said a thing to them. Thankfully there was well-spaced outdoor seating for us.
People ignoring mask rules is common at the hotel here, too. Here, like at the restaurant, signs on the door and at the front desk state that by business policy and county health rules masks are required everywhere indoors except in private rooms. Yet while here, at least, the staff are wearing masks, mask compliance among customers is about 25%.
It'll be nice to get back home to where it's nearly 100%.
