Them: “Oh what a coincidence to meet you here!”
In my head: YOU’RE NEIGHBOURS, IT’S NOT SPECIAL THAT YOU MEET IN THE ONLY FUCKING SUPERMARKET AROUND HERE!
Totally fake and staged. The carts both need to be at a 45° angle to 100% block and not leave space to try to squeeze by.
It’s been so long…
since i asked them quitely if i could get past them please
Praise Satan for grocery delivery and pickup. No more memorizing a store or searching for an hour for that one little thing. No more women getting creeped out for no other reason than you’re a man in a grocery store. As if, beach - no one wants to fuck you.
I feel like theres more to the story when you say ‘women getting creeped out’
No kidding. If you think you’re creeping out women by being “a man in a grocery store” there’s something off about either your behaviour or your perception of the world.
Nah man, not in my parts. Women shop, men hunt. I don’t play that way.
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Pretty sure the people saying this behavior is okay are the same people who like to slam their seats into people’s knees on airplanes.
Ok I’ll bite. Fully reclining my seat shouldn’t be something that’s looked down on. The person slamming their knees into the back of my seat preventing me from fully reclining should be more looked down on. The reason is that reclining doesn’t intrinsically interfere with anyone else, but pushing your knees into someone else’s seat absolutely does.
All passengers have the same and equal freedom to recline their seat if they choose, except for the people in the emergency exit rows of course. It’s part of what you’re paying for when you buy the ticket. If that interferes with the knees of the person behind me that’s not my problem. The designers of the seats should ensure that fully reclining the seat doesn’t reduce knee room for the person behind me. The airline constructed this scenario all by themselves and if there’s a problem with it they should solve it themselves. I shouldn’t be asked to sacrifice my comfort on a flight I paid for (just like everyone else did) because they failed to do that.
If we’re really insistent that this is somehow not 100% the airline’s problem, I’d next argue that if you don’t have enough knee room in a regular seat with the person in front of you fully reclined, then you’re literally too big for that seat. You should buy a “comfort plus” ticket. The airline should force you to do so.
I’m 6’5". I’d love to hear your suggestions for what I should do with my legs when you recline your seat. Do you think I can just take them off? Am I supposed to sit sideways with my legs in the lap of the person next to me? Am I supposed to do Yoga for a year before I get on a plane, so I can spread my knees out 180 degrees from each other and you can lay your head on my dick?
I’m not “slamming my knees into the back of your seat”. They simply exist where you’re trying to be, and the fundamental properties of matter are causing them to collide. You can be as pissed about your comfort as you want to be, but it’s not going to change my knees into ethereal ghost knees so your seat can lean back.
there is a difference between something being the airlines responsibility, and you still having some form of etiquette and thought for others when said airline wont fix the issue.
just because it shouldn’t be your problem doesn’t mean it isn’t. absolute individualism is a curse
Unless it’s 9pm on an overnight flight you shouldn’t be reclining you seat.
Anyone reclining their seat to take a nap on a 2-3 hour flight is a dick, because the nap is not necessary. It’s just preventing the person behind from being able to use the table tray or read or watch their movie or work on their project in their laptop because their already limited space becomes unusable.
It also does absolutely jack shit in terms of comfort or sleep. People are obsessed with their half centimeter of recline for the same reason they are obsessed with cutting through side streets to avoid a single stoplight - because it is a petulant display of pointless sovereignty for miserable henpecked assholes.
Unfortunate to see the entitled assholes made the trip over from Reddit. I paid for the amount of space I have.
I’ll go one step further.
it’s nice to talk to your friends when you see them out and about
even if you have children
I am ready for my downvotes now
That’s fine just have some sense of spatial awareness and move to one side of the fucking aisle
Counterpoint: the constant risk of seeing people I know every time I leave the house is why I developed an anxiety disorder living in a small town.
But how will we stay outraged if people are allowed to talk?
It’s not the talking that’s the problem, it’s the flagrant disregard for being in other peoples’ way. Move to the side of the damn aisle.
The drivers who will stop and talk to each other on a two lane road are even worse. They see they are blocking traffic in both directions but keep talking.
Gosh, I thought this was a thing only in my area.
This literally happened to me a couple of weeks ago. I even honked the horn and they just ignored it and kept talking like they were the only ones on the road. Some people are just so oblivious.
I have no problems saying excuse me in a loud clear voice and blasting right through the center of those conversations. Being a performer at the local Renaissance festival for 30 years teaches you how to blow right through crowds with people in the way.
Bonus points if they stand in front of the door when you’re trying to leave the store.
It’s blessed to see people having a nice chat in public.
ikr it’s a grocery store, not an Amazon warehouse.
Where I live (Philadelphia suburbs) it’s exactly like this except both people are driving. And they always get pissed when you honk because roads aren’t for actual driving or anything.
What especially pisses me off about this sort of thing is that I KNOW both people are on Facebook and already know every fucking thing there is to know about the other person.
My shopping cart is a weapon!
Quickest way to get them to love is to join their conversation.
“Oh my god Stacy, haven’t seen you in ages! How are the kids?”
ME: “Hi Stacy, wow I thought you only used that name on OnlyFans”
Yall just tell them to move.
Right, and you can just move the shopping cart some idiot left in the middle of the only parking space left too.
It’s hilarious that you’re downvoted because asking them to move has never failed in my experience. Given I’m in the Midwest and there’s the whole “Midwestern sensibility” stereotype, but I don’t think anyone here is different from anywhere else.
Most people who do this either don’t think about the fact they’re blocking the whole aisle or they don’t realize you want through. A simple excuse me will let them know
Yes, in isolation this isn’t annoying. But it’s the constant, never ending lack of self awareness which adds up to it being annoying.
Where I am we’d just say excuse me and they would move. However the point is that people are so in their own world they don’t think about others not being able to get by.
This is unrealistic. In real life, they’d be standing next to a pillar.
In real life they’re in fucking cars taking up both lanes near the exit to the neighborhood.
Seen it happen a few times
