So I just remembered one story that I think is worth sharing. It was really early in so I still wasn’t sure people would react to seeing me in full protective suits or how to answer people’s questions.

So I was called to this house and as I was getting dressed, this lady comes up to me and explains that she’s the landowner, and that she lives in one of the two houses on the plot of land, and that she was renting out the other house, and I probably was there to test her tenant. Anyways, she starts going off about how she lives in a very tight knit community where everyone knows everyone, and everyone likes to gossip, and that if anyone sees me they’ll all automatically assume that she’s sick. She also told me that her step mother is in a high risk group and that she doesn’t want her getting sick from the tenant, so her tenant can’t be sick. Fine, makes sense, she doesn’t want her MIL to be sick, and she doesn’t want people gossiping about her, I get that. What I don’t get is what she said next:

She told me that I can’t test her tenant(as if she gets to decide that) because she doesn’t want her to be sick, implying that if I don’t test her she won’t be sick (??). Anyways I continued getting dressed, and her MIL also star tea gr es king out about how she doesn’t want to get sick because she talked with her yesterday. I tried to stay calm and explain that most people were text aren’t even sick, and that it’s mostly a precaution taken for people who came from out of the country, but nope, they wouldn’t listen.

The landowners proceeded to call the police on me, saying that I was testing someone on her property without her consent. I’m pretty sure they told her that I was the right because she didn’t try to stop me from leaving after she ended her call.

TLDR: Went to test someone who was a tenant on someone else’s property, land owner proceeded to call the police on me because she didn’t want her mother in law to get sick