Recognizing people who are wearing masks

I can't recognize other people - I can hardly recognize myself in a mask

Not only can't I NOT recognize people in masks, I'm having a hard time hearing with everyone wearing masks. I must lip read with out knowing I'm doing it.

Depends on who it is for me. Yesterday I was sitting in the doctor's office parking lot waiting for my daughter to come out. A woman approached my window, and I had no idea who it was. Turns out, it was a lady on my sewing team. Ugh! But in my defense, she also had her hair pulled back very tightly in a pony tail, and I have never seen her wear her hair like that. Very embarrassing when I asked "Do I know you?"

The other day my son had a school sports physical and they asked if we could see a different nurse practitioner at the last minute. I supposedly knew her father etc. I did ask her if she minded lifting her mask for a second so I could see her face. It just made me feel more comfortable seeing her. Our dentist always wore one, and I was the same way. I needed to see a full face before I felt comfortable letting someone touch me.

For me it totally depends! lol.... My church has a garden where we grow vegetables for a local food bank. This is my week to water, so I helped with the weekly harvest on Tuesday. The main garden guy was there to supervise us neophytes to make sure we didn't harvest something we shouldn't. One other woman showed up to help. She was a shorter white woman in the 50+ age range. She had on a really full face mask, the kind that covers basically everything except your eyes. And she was wearing a sun hat. We have three women in this church who fit the description of "short white 50+". Honestly, it took me about 20 minutes to figure out which one of those three she was!      lol. It wasn't until she said "I really miss singing in the choir" that I figured it out, since only one of the three is in the choir. lol

Of the few friends I’ve run into at the store, I have recognized them by their height and body shape. Both were men, and both of them are extremely tall. 😄.

I started back to work on Monday. I usually don’t wear my glasses because they fog when wearing a mask. I’m amazed how well I’m able to ID coworkers based on basic body type/body language from a distance.

We were working at an outside food drive today. Many people had hats plus sunglasses, plus we all had masks. I met a few people for the first time today, and told them not to be offended if I met them again and was clueless!

I had a student who was working at a grocery store during remote learning and he used to always say so and so went through my line last night. When I asked what they had to say, he would always say that he didn't recognize them until they told him who they were! LOL

Should be interesting when school starts up again!