I freaking love Bunnings. I mean, not usually. When I go in there I’m terrified. Long and various aisles. Many different types of spigot. Big blokes bustling about as if they know what they are doing.
But right now, the main reason I love Bunnings is because of its staff. A video on the weekend distributed on Twitter by Cam Smith (@sexenheimer) reveals the conversation between staff and a woman fronting up to a Bunnings in Victoria to have a fight about wearing a mask. The woman, named as Kerry Nash, enters the Narre Warren premises and is approached by a calm employee who asks her if she has a mask. (Hint: It’s Victoria. Wear a mask.)
Nash, recording the interaction so she can use it as “evidence” (of what, I’m unsure, except to illustrate ignorance of the law), replies to the astonishingly patient staff: “It’s clear I don’t and you are not authorised to ask me or question me about it.”
Then follows two minutes of breathtaking calm from workers while Nash recites a list of ludicrous reasons why she shouldn’t wear a mask and claims being asked to wear a mask is an unlawful condition of entry and even cites the Charter of Human Rights.
Geez. I wish I’d known about this Charter of Human Rights. We could only get into an AFL game at the Sydney Cricket Ground if the men in our party were wearing collared shirts, so we were forced into the expensive Swans merch store and that’s surely a greater breach of my human rights than wearing a mask in Bunnings.
Anyhow, about Kerry. Just as we are having a COVID pandemic, turns out we are also having a COVIDiots’ convention. I can’t be sure she’s one of these nutjobs but her video was shared with a conspiracy theory Facebook group.
Read the article by Jenna Price in the Brisbane Times.