Wearing a mask: A missed opportunity to be an asshole while living with cancer

Photo: Me with a free mask from the hospital.

I walked around Target wearing this mask because my immune system isn’t so great right now.

I could tell parents were looking at me without turning their heads, but their kids just stared, because they are kids and that’s what they do.

At the checkout some kid was putting his grubby hands on my basket and then sneezed three times. He stared at the mask and said, "Mommy! Why is she wearing that?"

I said, "To protect me from germ-bags like you."

Actually, I didn't say that. It was one of those things I thought of later.