omg MOVE!

[Green_Fairy]

so my dad and i went grocery shopping today. biiig mistake. we pulled into the parking lot and went down an aisle. there was a woman stopped in the middle of the damned aisle. apparently, she saw a lady go up to her car with her shopping cart and decided to wait for that spot.
...kay, now, i get that it's busy. but...it's not that busy.
cars started stacking up behind us. people started honking.
and the woman was still unloading her cart.
the woman waiting for the space decided to do the only logical thing.
she started backing up.
yeah...we were right behind her. so we starting honking cuz i think she was going to back up into us. she slammed on her breaks. other people that were loading up their cars had stopped and were watching. finally, the woman unloaded her cart and left and the driver got her precious parking space.
yeah. we totally got one across the aisle from her cuz right after she pulled in, about 4 people pulled out. they couldn't before because she was blocking them.
as pops and i were walking up to the store, we heard a couple of the cart kids talking about how crappy she was being.
we loled.

[Sapphire Silk]

Had a similar feeling today INSIDE the store.

I made the mistake of going to the wholesale store to buy a pie for Christmas Day.

Parking lot was chock full. I lucked out and got a spot near the exit.

Inside the store I kept getting blocked by people who would suddenly just stop in the middle of an aisle and not move, but just look around like a deer in the headlights. They were so entranced by the mob and the pretty lights of the store displays that it took several repititions of, "excuse me. Excuse Me. EXCUSE ME!" to get them to move out of the way so other people could get buy.

Ugh. I've been in the place when it's been crowded before. But I've never seen so many stoned customers in my life. Too many people hitting the egg nog early.

[ShinyGreenApple]

Had that happen today in the parking lot at work. I decided to just cruise the aisles and take the first spot available no matter how far away it was. Even the 'buttfuck nowhere' spots were taken up. And yet I'm unable to continue my perusing, along with the half dozen people behind me because some dumbass in an SUV is sitting near one of the closer spots waiting for some poor woman to load her shopping. I have the inkling she may have been taking her sweet time and I don't blame her. The vulture waiting on her decided it was a good idea to move over onto the WRONG side of the aisle so that other vehicles could get around them. I think they eventually gave up. Yeesh.

[Aisling]

I made the mistake of going to the wholesale store...

My warehouse is pretty much my favorite store ever, and I'm usually there on a weekly basis. I haven't been since mid last week (which was busy enough!) and I don't plan to go back until Monday at the earliest. NOTHING on this green earth is worth dealing with those crowds.

[EvilEmpryss]

I had a last-minute emergency butter run this afternoon... and played out nearly the same scene inside the store with some bimbo and her shopping cart and me and my walker. This woman just stopped dead in the middle of the aisle (no room to go around her). I had two people with their fully loaded carts in a line right on my ass.

Then the woman starts backing up. I say "Excuse me." (the indoor equivalent of 'beep')

She keeps backing up.

I back up so my butt's touching the cart of the person behind me and say a little louder "Excuse me!" (the indoor equivalent of 'beep-beep')

She keeps backing up!

Finally I yell "EXCUSE ME! I'm right behind you with no where to go!" (the indoor equivalent of 'HONK!')

Finally the twit looks over her shoulder and says "Yeah, I know, but I can't turn my cart around right here."

There was absolutely no need for her to turn around right there. We were close to the end of the aisle as it was; she could a have gone another ten feet and been able to go anywhere she wanted. The EW turned her whole damned cart around and was blocking the aisle while doing it, to hell with how it inconvenienced everyone around her.

[LillFilly]

I hate the people that come around the corner in an isle of cars but take the turn so wide that they're in your lane, and instead of backing-up or turning back into their lane they keep coming at you until you're forced to back up. When I'm in the security vehicle I refuse to move; I've come within a gnat's wing of getting swiped, but those people need to break that habit!

[smileyeagle1021]

Oh, I hate the parking lot people, I get that all the time on campus (the south parking lot has a rather unfortunate combination of being both the most desirable and the smallest... okay second smallest but not by much, and I have had people start following me when I was climbing the stairs up to the lot).

[Andara Bledin]

I avoided dealing with this BS when I had to stop at the store on the way to a family get-together yesterday (Christmas Eve).

Rather than wait for the douchebag who couldn't be bothered to walk more than 20 feet to get to the door, so was blocking the main aisle to wait for someone who was still getting to their car, and blocking traffic going in both directions along the main driving lane at the front of the store.

I, on the other hand, just pulled into an outside lane, parked about 30 feet further away, and was in the store while the person this jerk was waiting for was still packing their groceries into their trunk.

^-.-^

[ADoyle90815]

One thing about those far spots is that when I was doing my last minute shopping, I had to wait for someone to move while waiting in line for a closer spot before I could pull out.

[Andara Bledin]

I was parked in a completely different aisle, not one of the three main aisles.

There would have to be some serious idiocy going on before it would even be possible for someone to end up blocking me in.

^-.-^

[PepperElf]

"Yeah, I know, but I can't turn my cart around right here."

and that's somehow going to magically open up more space?

this is why i love wegmans (and oh how i'll miss you W!). they have the regular carts and they have short carts that are double stacked. those are a lot easier to maneuver.

[Shalom]

this is why i love wegmans (and oh how i'll miss you W!). they have the regular carts and they have short carts that are double stacked. those are a lot easier to maneuver.

The local Acme had those, but they got rid of them. Never found out why, but I did like them.

(I didn't shop much at Wegmans, back when I lived where they had them, because there was an awesome Tops International across the street from them, with a Kosher deli included. At the time they claimed they were the largest supermarket in the state of New York; no idea whether this was correct or not.)

[TheSHAD0W]

The Harbor Freight Tools in Las Cruces, NM has awesome carts. They're fairly small, which helps, but all four wheels pivot, which lets it turn on a dime.

My evil minions and I would have fun spinning them in place; they have great bearings and would spin for a long time!

[bhskittykatt]

Gah, I had people like that in parking lots. There may be a perfectly good spot just a couple spaces down, but nooo...they have to wait for that spot.

My fav grocery store closed down, so I have to go next door where their parking lot is insane. I try to park off to the side in the back, where few people venture. Those who do go back there are usually of the same mindset and want to just park wherever so they can get in and get out without wasting gas. The people who circle the lot 20+ times to find a good spot are concentrated in another section of the lot that I avoid like the plague.

As for inside the store...often, people will stop just outside the store to peruse their receipt/chat on their cell phone/stare into space. I've almost rammed into people who suddenly stop just past the exit doors. No. Keep moving. MOVE!!!

[Shalom]

As for inside the store...often, people will stop just outside the store to peruse their receipt/chat on their cell phone/stare into space. I've almost rammed into people who suddenly stop just past the exit doors. No. Keep moving. MOVE!!!

That's like the people who get to the top of an escalator, step off, and stop short. "Duh, which way should I go...?" *WHAM* "How about forward, dufus?"

Or the guys who I was driving behind on the Phantom Canyon Highway (Colorado SR-67). They got to the end of this trestle, pulled forward onto solid ground, stopped their car right there, and got out to take pictures. Meanwhile I'm stuck behind them on this thing with no place to go. Had to lean on the horn to get them to move. Some people think they're the only ones in the universe, and everyone else is just furniture.