Ice cream shop closes one day after reopening because customers didn't follow social distancing rules

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Ice cream shop closes one day after reopening because customers didn't follow social distancing rules
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An ice cream shop in Massachusetts had to close its doors on Saturday, just one day after reopening, because customers refused to follow social distancing rules and even harassed employees.

Black-owned businesses in Georgia struggle as the state reopens Things got so bad at the Polar Cave Ice Cream Parlour in Mashpee that an employee quit the same day. "One of my best workers quit yesterday at the end of her shift. She stuck it through her shift," owner Mark Lawrence told CNN affiliate WFXT."But the words she was called and the language, you wouldn't even say in a men's locker room. And to say it to a 17-year-old kid, they should be ashamed of themselves.

"Now I open the doors to a whole new world, with gloves and masks and we're running around like chickens, and people are like where's my ice cream? I'm not a trauma center, it's ice cream!" Lawrence told WFXT."People have forgotten how to treat other human beings in the six or seven weeks that they've been confined to their homes. They have no clue how to respect other human beings.

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