Sunday, March 4, 2007

we have all been there...

so, i know part of this is my fault, but, overall, some people should just be locked up and not be allowed to interact with the world.

the part thats my fault is easy to explain, i know to never go to the grocery store on a sunday afternoon, i know that its never going to be an easy task, a "run in and grab" something outing. i am fully aware of how insane it can be.

but here is the issue, and we have all dealt with this. some people when they are shopping become completely oblivious to the fact the grocery store is being used by other people as well. i had to run in and pick up a few things, one of which was a container of sour cream. I didn't need a lot of sour cream, a small container would have worked just fine. i made my way over to the dairy department with the hopes of being able to grab my item. as i get to the section of the dairy case where the sour cream is there is a woman parked in front of the entire sour cream section. she appears to be going through her list or looking for a coupon or something that could easily be done not in front of the sour cream. i try to make my presence known by just moving in a little closer. nothing. she doesn't budge, she doesn't even realize i am there. i reach across her sight line towards the sour cream, again, nothing. i then have to contort myself to reach around the woman to grab some sour cream. she still doesn't move. how dare you, you self indulgent, arrogant fool. you think that your shopping for cheese puffs and ding-dongs is so important that its justified for you to take up any space you want?

this isn't the only instance of this type of behaviour, i see it all the time. some people are selfish, spoiled arrogant jerks who only think of themselves and can't be bothered to step aside whilst they organize their coupons or read the labels. how about you idiots do us all a favor and get some manners, some common courtesy. i hate you.

--aaron

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have experienced this before as well. I am considering a book deal to publish my findings. I have created a step by step program to solve for situations such as this. I will share this procedure now.
Step 1: SAY EXCUSE ME


That is all!

Anonymous said...

i hear you, aaron.. there's this one that i expereinced yesterday: i had a basket - one of those things you carry when you are only picking up "15 items or less"... i go to step in line and this woman and her daughter with a cart FULL of crap moved swiftly to the line in order to beat me... i stood there like, "ladies - i've got this little basket that will take them 30 seconds to ring me up... you're not even going to acknowledge my existence?" needless to say, i dumped my basket on their heads and moved on. maybe not, but why do people ignore everyone else at the local grocer?!? what has happened to our culture???

Anonymous said...

How was the sour cream though? Was it worth it? I certainly hope so!