Do not get caught with your pants off unless of course you need a face mask in a snap.
A woman in South Africa avoided being thrown out of the Pick n Pay supermarket by using her panties as a mask.
Smartphone footage obtained by Newsflash captured the strange interaction in which the shopkeeper asked the maskless woman, who was waiting at the checkout with her groceries, to put on a face mask or leave the store.
With no mask on hand, the inventive apostate objects before they stopped were presumably the moment a light bulb went off in her head.
At the next moment, the brutal customer can be seen sticking out from under her dress with paisley-printed hand, then pulling her black thong underwear down under her legs, all the way to her face, where she places it in a way to cover her nose and mouth cover. .
‘Happy?’ she asked sarcastically. A surprised spectator can also be heard shouting ‘good lord’ behind the camera.
Meanwhile, another buyer who stood directly behind the now pantsless woman on the line encouraged the trick.
“Well, personally, I find that acceptable: it’s a mask,” she says. “And honestly, I think the bacteria on your underpants is less than on the mask.”
“Well done,” she adds with a congratulations. “Brilliant.”
Internet critics, however, were not so impressed. “Come on, grow up. What should your family think? Asked a Facebook user according to Newsflash.
Another added: ‘It makes me sick. She is worldwide aware of the law. We have a serious virus and (she thinks) a G-string will save her. ‘