An unmasked man enters the donut shop. That sounds the setup to a joke, 2021’s answer to a priest and a rabbi walking into a bar. But this isn’t a joke. The unmasked man in the donut shop is real.
“Hey, the sign on your door says you’re closed,” the unmasked man tells the cashier.
“Oh, it must’ve been the wind,” the cashier says. “Sometimes it gets flipped around.”
The cashier comes around from behind the counter, hustles to the door, and fixes the sign. Meanwhile, the unmasked man riffs on the signage by mispronouncing the Spanish word for closed—cerrado.
“Ser-a-dooooooo.”
“Ser-ah-d’oh!”
“Ser-ah-seriously-not-gonna-get-any-business. See, I speak Spanish!”
The unmasked man cracks himself up with that last one. But there’s no telling if the cashier shares his humor because she’s wearing a mask, per local health ordinance.
“I almost didn’t come in here,” the unmasked man says. “That sign could’ve cost you mucho business.”
But now the sign is fixed, and it’s do…
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