In Which I Unknowingly Twerk On An Old Lady

[TattooedMommie]

subtitled: "Can I Have Some Fucking Personal Space Here??"

(tiny bit of BG- I drive a piece of shit car; I have to add power steering fluid almost daily. Also BG- I wear a tee shirt UNDER my work shirt, so that the minute I punch out, uniform shirt comes off and I become a civilian)

So the other day, I punched out, stripped off my uniform shirt, and headed to my car. In the parking lot, I popped the hood, got up under there and started trying to fit the funnel into the weirdly-positioned power steering opening. A heard a "Crunch!" and stood up...an old woman was standing directly behind me, eating a bag of chips, leaning over, to see what I was doing under the hood.
I mean, literally at my hip. So close to my ass that if I had raised an elbow upon standing, I would've clocked her in the throat. Like to people driving by, it probably looked like I was twerking on this woman...

I said "Uhh...Helllo??"
Nothing, just crunching away on her chips, looking under the hood.
I moved a few inches away, muttered "whaaaat the fuck??" and shot her a WTF look. Finished what I had to do and slammed the hood. She's still standing there, just staring at my car, eating her chips.
I drive away, and see her just casually sit on the bench and continue with her snack.
I just dont get it...LOL...but glad I could be her entertainment center for a few minutes...

[Food Lady]

I have regular customers like that. It's creepy.

[notalwaysright]

Had to click on this because of the title, lol! Sometimes when I'm kneeling on the floor putting something away, I'll stand and there's just someone hovering directly behind me... If they stood over to the side, I would see them, but when they do this I always jump a bit. They always look confused that I am surprised, like I have eyes on the back of my head.

[Dreamstalker]

I've lost count of how many customers I've almost smacked because they just HAVE to stand right in my blind spot/behind me when they can see I'm busy usually juggling large, heavy, and/or messy items. Especially fun when I have my head quite literally inside a shelf trying to get something at the back (protip: saying 'excuse me' will give a far better result than just grabbyhands--it may take me a few seconds to respond, but nobody gets hurt*).

* Some idjit did that last week when they could see that the shelves I was in held glass bottles. Luckily I sensed them behind me and didn't get hurt, but they couldn't understand why I then refused to help and MOD was yelling at them. What did they want? Some obscure deli item--go ask in the deli then, you have to go over there anyway to see if we have it.

[MoonCat]

I think these people were cats in a previous life.

[An Haddock]

I'd have said something... like "You wanna give me a little personal space, please?" People need to get called out on their nonsense.



Somewhat related: once sent a tech to a house to check out an Apple with an internet connection problem. When the guy got back he said he had to leave after less than an hour because the woman was up his ass the entire time. Her head was on his shoulder the entire time he's trying to work. "Well, I did that." "What does that do?" "Why are you clicking that?" - she had driven him up the wall to the point that he couldn't concentrate any more and just had to leave. I told him he should have said something to her about personal space but he was trying to be polite. Well, NO. SHE isn't being polite by practically climbing on top of you while you're working and she's interrupting you with questions. THAT isn't polite. We've worked on her husband's laptop in the shop since then but if he ever asks us to do something at their house I'm going to tell him no, if his wife is going to be there, and why.

[MoonCat]

Sounds like my neighbor. When the gas company worked on our street a couple years ago to replace all the meters (they were being moved from inside houses to the outside), this old pteradactyl would follow the workmen from house to house, watching everything from as close as she could get. At one point she was behind one of their worktrucks, which had its back door open, and I thought she was going to climb inside! If anyone does any kind of work on, in or around their house, there she is, getting in the way. Biggest busybody I have EVER known.

[An Haddock]

Sounds like my neighbor. When the gas company worked on our street a couple years ago to replace all the meters (they were being moved from inside houses to the outside), this old pteradactyl would follow the workmen from house to house, watching everything from as close as she could get. At one point she was behind one of their worktrucks, which had its back door open, and I thought she was going to climb inside! If anyone does any kind of work on, in or around their house, there she is, getting in the way. Biggest busybody I have EVER known.

Did anyone ever say anything to her about it?

[MoonCat]

Did anyone ever say anything to her about it?

Not that I overheard. I think the one guy was getting a kick out of it. The rest just went on with their jobs.

When I had some roof repairs done, though, my sister asked them not to engage with her and the lead guy shut her down real fast when she started asking nosy questions.

[dalesys]

... the lead guy shut her down real fast when she started asking nosy questions.

A bucket of tar is *so* useful.