I generally also go for the quick, polite, but firm "excuse me". Especially in the supermarket. For some reason, outside of the supermarket, I favour the 'bump'. Especially if it's a group of teens. Dunno why that appeals so, it just does.
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Quoth KayEmthose 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.
Of course, it's the freight train's fault for not being able to see around the corner and stop on a dime.... That actually became part of a joke that I would use on annoyed customers to make them a little more tolerable."At any time, for any reason and without any warning, a meteor could fall from the sky and kill us all."
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And don't even get me started on those humongous double-wide umbrellas! With morons attatched.
carts seem to bring out the strange in some people; stealing your cart, with a complement of groceries inside (er, big clue, yes?? maybe not...), shoving you aside with their cart (or ramming your cart with theirs) without so much as an 'excuse me.'
much like liquor and big muscle cars, it seems that the cart creates the 'ten foot tall and bulletproof' status.look! it's ghengis khan!
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Quoth KogarashiThat 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.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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The problem I have being blocked with carts is when going shopping.
My wife walks ahead with my 3 girls, and I follow with the cart - keeping my kids between me and my wife, making sure they don't wander off and get lost. I make sure to keep a little gap between my kids and the cart to not run over them.
Always I'll get cut off by someone going between my kids and my cart, usually a person with their own cart, like they can't see that we're a family and going the same place. It happens numerous times, no 'excuse me' or any warning. The worst is when a bunch of people do this - if they don't see me, the rest of my family keeps going, and I have to rush to catch up.
I've been fighting the urge to scream at them to get out of my way...
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And don't even get me started on those humongous double-wide umbrellas! With morons attatched.
Heh. I've lived in the Seattle area for 11 years. I'm localized now and don't need an umbrella!
Back on topic, just yesterday 2 customers saw 2 other people they knew and proceeded to block the checkout line entrance and have a high pitched, Pleasantville-type conversation: "Hiiiiiiiiiiii!!!" "How ARE you? It's been SOOOOO long!" to, erm, nudge them away....
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Quoth JustaCashierOr, 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.
Sorry for the slight post hack, but this goes right up there with the idiots who purposely go to the one spot in the aisle you need to go to (to stock stuff, etc) and refuse to move.
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Rich, maybe they really can't see you're a family. I know I wouldn't. I'd see a woman with three girls, and behind them a single guy with a trolley. If I see a need to take that space, I will. If you look like you're moving into it, I won't, but if you're stationary or I need something from where that gap is, then I'll be moving.
It's only a supermarket, it's not that big. The kids won't get too far in front if you have to go around someone sometimes.
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