Nancy Young wrote:
> "Dee Randall" > wrote
>
>> Another pet peeve is when I'm looking at a product and always-a-woman
>> comes up beside me and speaks in a loud voice and says, "EXCUSE ME!"
>> and I know she expects me to get out of the way of her shopping --
>> and fast! She may know what she wants and she wants you out of the
>> way so she can get it NOW! Rarely do I get a pleasant 'excuse me.'
>> They must wait?
>
> Are you an aisle hog? (laugh) I have done the polite excuse me thing
> plenty of
> times, after waiting patiently for the person to choose whatever it
> is to find *the*
> perfect can of tomatoes, sometimes it has no effect whatsoever.
> After what feels like a few minutes (unlikely), I'll either turn
> around and shop for something
> else or say louder, Excuse Me. I don't yell it.
>
> But when you really need garlic and someone is using their body and
> their cart to block the entire garlic display forever, that is
> annoying because you
> just have to wait. And wait.
>
> nancy

Let's don't even talk about those people who bring their 5 kids and their
cousin and their cousin's kids and use those annoying carts that are
designed to look like small cars (and probably should require a license
since they take up as much room as my car does in the parking lot). Heh...
I'd like to look at the selection of pork or perhaps the squash in the
produce aisle - but NO - two small car(t)s filled with kids and the
chattering cousins are blocking whatever. "Excuse me" is about the *only*
polite thing I could possibly say.

Jill