Let's all just stand in front of the cart lobby!

[Jaden]

So I'm doing my cart shift tonight, it's about 7:30. There's two guys talking right in front of where I need to dock the carts inside the left entrance of the store. I'm really timid in situations like this so I say nothing and wait for one of them to notice me. So one of them looks DIRECTLY at me, pauses in the conversation for a second...and then turns right back aroudn and keeps talking. And not just for a few more seconds, more like minutes.

Why couldn't they jsut take five steps outside and continue talkign there?! I mean seriously. Is the area in front of the cart lobby the new social hangout now?

"Hey guys, wanna go to the bar tonight?"

"Nah, let's go to Kroger and stand in front of the cart lobby! That grocery store is the place to go for a good time!"

Idiots. I realize I should have said something, but they probably should have moved after looking at me the first time. I think I even heard one of them mentioning moving out of the way to let me through, and the other one going "Nah, it's ok. He's just an employee." I guess their conversation is more important than me doing my job then. Fine by me, I get paid by the hour, I'll stand here my whole shift if you like

[One-Fang]

I don't get people that do that. There was something the other day, where a group of four had stopped to talk to each other. Whatever the situation, (don't recall exactly) they were just inside of a narrow space that others had to walk through, and three steps aside was a large lobby-ish area.

But oh no, let's stand right in that two-person wide narrow space so everyone else has to inch past us one-by-one, because we're too important to move out conversation three steps to the left.

[Kogarashi]

That sounds like half the students on the college campus I used to attend. Lots of these knots of people would manage to find the narrowest (and busiest) walkways imagineable and just stand there, holding a conversation, and ignoring the people walking past. The only acknowledgement for passers-by was a nasty glare if you happened to bump into them.

[JustaCashier]

I'm very big on courtesy, but geez, sometimes at the grocery store, or wherever, I'll be saying "excuse me" in what I think is a loud enough voice without shouting and coming off as rude, and they don't hear me!!

And when I used to work in Downtown Seattle, I'd come across 2-3 morons who would be standing, blocking the sidewalk, while they had their little chat. Or, I'd get the wall o' morons coming up the sidewalk in the opposite direction not even moving to let me through. I'd practically have to jump over a fire hydrant, or parking meter. In cases such as those, I often won't say "excuse me" because I figure the blatant rudeness on their part doesn't warrant politeness on my part.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I hate people who do that. However, most people who do that are nice enough to move aside if they see me, or I say "Excuse me!"

I also hate the unfit parents who let their kids run around in the cart corral or swing on the metal bars of the corrals like the are monkey bars. I have a big line of carts to push in there, and if the kid falls he/she is gonna get run over.

[alphaboi]

For some reason people love to gather in front of the SCOs and just talk. Of course none of them have any intention of using them nor can they concieve that other people might want to use them.

[Broomjockey]

People who block narrow walkthroughs get an "accidental" shoulder by me. Just a bump, a nudge if you will. I'm near six and a half feet with broad shoulders, so its easy to pass off as an accident, and 99% of the time, they move after, and noone has ever mouthed off at me for it because I'm near six and a half feet with broad shoulders

[Kiwi]

ive noticed people doing that around the art

get your stupid fat asses away from the stand if your not looking at the art or thinking about buying something.... groups of like 5-10 people who stand RIGHT THERE scaring off my customers!!

sigh... i dont like sales

[Lehk]

I'm really timid in situations like this so I say nothing and wait for one of them to notice me.

I used to be timid like that but 5 years of stocking shelves i am pretty agressive now, though always in a polite but firm manner.

unless of course i want to take a little break i will stand there leaning on the boat for a minute or two waiting

[pbmods]

But not just standing about in the store!

This is without a doubt one of the most universal displays of inconsiderate-ness I ever see in humans.

People will spread out as much as four-wide on a sidewalk and then walk at a *c r a w l*, and if you want to get past, you either have to walk on the street, or (my favorite) roughly shove through them. Ooh, that's fun, 'cause then *they* think that *you're* the rude one

[KayEm]

I used to be timid like that but 5 years of stocking shelves i am pretty agressive now, though always in a polite but firm manner.

Exactly. You have to be, otherwise you will never get your freaking work done.

People are unReal. I've been pushing blue cabs full of stock down the aisles. HUGE things when they're stacked high, and people will just stand there and stare at me blankly until I say "Excuse me"..only then do they move. But I usually say it politely and firmly and FAST, because first of all, I have a lot of work to do and I can't go home UNTIL it's all done and secondly, those blue cabs are HEAVY (as are the dollies & the U-Boats with all the heavy boxes and shit on them), and once you get your momentum going with those things, you really don't want to stop until you reach your destination, because it's hard to get them started again.

On a related note, I've noticed that weekends are the most likely for this type of thing to go on. Why ? I think it's because most people have the weekend off and consequently just want to go slow and laze about. I notice the same thing on the roads on my way to work on saturday and sunday. The same people that rush like crazy during the week will slow down to the pace of slugs on the weekend. Drives me nuts. I always want to yell out my windows "Not EVERYBODY has the weekend off, you know !"

[Becks]

I saw the title of this thread, and mind started singing.

"Let's all go to the lobby...let's all go to the lobby...let's all go to the lobby and block ourselves some carts!!!!!!!!!"

I think people get paid to get in my way when I'm trying to push my salad cart at work. The thing is taller than I am, and I can KINDA see through the spaces in between the trays, but if you're under 4 and a half feet tall, I can't see you.

[JustaCashier]

One specific incident from many years ago in Downtown Seattle. There's this one intersection that I've determined to be about the windiest, Downtown. It's just a few blocks up from the Bay. This one particular windy, rainy day I happened to be going "against the flow", with the wind to my back, and as the light changed, I started across. I see coming towards me, the full width of the crosswalk, wall to wall umbrella tops pointed into the wind. The morons attatched to the other end of these umbrellas could not see me, since their umbrellas were blocking their line of vision. I practically had to jump on the hood of a car, that was waiting for the light to go in the cross direction, to avoid being mowed down by this sea of umbrellas, with morons attatched!

I cannot believe that people using umbrellas when it's so windy out! They're going to get wet anyway from the wind blowing the rain under the umbrella, plus, it's going to turn the umbrella inside out, rendering it ineffective, and possibly destroying it!

And don't even get me started on those humongous double-wide umbrellas! With morons attatched.

Mike

[Phone Jockey]

People really DO seem to gather in the most inappropriate places. It's as if those place have some sort of idiot magnet inside...

[Jaden]

People really DO seem to gather in the most inappropriate places. It's as if those place have some sort of idiot magnet inside...

I'm pretty sure you have that idiot magnet attached under your chair PJ