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I have a Miata and we do this too!
They actually did a report on the demise of manners on Good Morning America this past week.
So this thread has put this little scenario in my head: I'd like to have a t'shirt made with big block letters that says, "Manner Police". I'd have a police light and siren strapped to my head and a ticket book. Walking through Walmart, I'd "pull over" any offenders that I'd witnessed and write them a ticket for rudeness, thereby publically embarrassing the crap out of them.
You think that'd hit the news? Then we can put them all in manner rehab.
I was pretty traumatized one day when I was in Walmart with my two children, in the camping section. The store wasn't crowded, and I wasn't thinking.
I unthinkingly parked my cart on one side of the isle and reached for a rain poncho on a hook up high on the other side of the isle. I was then blocking the whole aisle.
Then I saw another brand of rain poncho, and paused.
I about jumped out of my skin when a woman with her husband YELLED at me (bellowed would be another word to describe it), "You're blocking the whole aisle!"
I about cried. When I turned to look at her, she had such an expression of hatred and meanness toward me, that I couldn't understand.
I'm afraid that's when I'd have blocked it for about the next ten minutes...
If it had been a reasonable "Excuse us, please", or even just an "Excuse us, could we pass through?" or some such, then I'd have moved aside and even maybe given a brief apology. Yell at me? That's another story.
Of course, you should have seen the dagger looks I gave at a woman who made it a point to RAM my shopping cart three times at a store recently. It was a second hand store with crowded aisles. There simply is no place to pull carts aside while looking at merchandise. In most aisles, there is not room to pass. Somehow I ended up in the same section of the store as this (bleep). The first time her cart bumped mine I was facing the other way and didn't think much of it -- again, it's crowded. Even though the cart hit me in the process, I didn't say anything other than "excuse me " and pulled my cart as far out of the way as possible, given the area of the store. The second time, on the other hand, I happened to glance her direction just as she rammed my cart - clearly intentional. The third time? Well, I wasn't so nice...
I have a Miata and we do this too!
They actually did a report on the demise of manners on Good Morning America this past week.
So this thread has put this little scenario in my head: I'd like to have a t'shirt made with big block letters that says, "Manner Police". I'd have a police light and siren strapped to my head and a ticket book. Walking through Walmart, I'd "pull over" any offenders that I'd witnessed and write them a ticket for rudeness, thereby publically embarrassing the crap out of them.
I was pretty traumatized one day when I was in Walmart with my two children, in the camping section. The store wasn't crowded, and I wasn't thinking.
I unthinkingly parked my cart on one side of the isle and reached for a rain poncho on a hook up high on the other side of the isle. I was then blocking the whole aisle.
Then I saw another brand of rain poncho, and paused.
I about jumped out of my skin when a woman with her husband YELLED at me (bellowed would be another word to describe it), "You're blocking the whole aisle!"
I about cried. When I turned to look at her, she had such an expression of hatred and meanness toward me, that I couldn't understand.
I'm afraid that's when I'd have blocked it for about the next ten minutes...
If it had been a reasonable "Excuse us, please", or even just an "Excuse us, could we pass through?" or some such, then I'd have moved aside and even maybe given a brief apology. Yell at me? That's another story.
Of course, you should have seen the dagger looks I gave at a woman who made it a point to RAM my shopping cart three times at a store recently. It was a second hand store with crowded aisles. There simply is no place to pull carts aside while looking at merchandise. In most aisles, there is not room to pass. Somehow I ended up in the same section of the store as this (bleep). The first time her cart bumped mine I was facing the other way and didn't think much of it -- again, it's crowded. Even though the cart hit me in the process, I didn't say anything other than "excuse me " and pulled my cart as far out of the way as possible, given the area of the store. The second time, on the other hand, I happened to glance her direction just as she rammed my cart - clearly intentional. The third time? Well, I wasn't so nice...