Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
People are oblivious to their surroundings
Or are they just being rude? I was at Target last night. Not in any hurry. We had a few rental children for the night, and I needed some things to offer them for breakfast, and snacks for the evening.
Anyway, I was walking down the chip aisle pushing a cart. Coming towards me, but far enough away to adjust the direction we're walking, is a woman with 2 children, maybe 6 & 8 or so. She stops midway through the aisle, almost centered, and a child stops on each side of her.
She looks right at me, and says "you go pick out a bag you agree on."
So, me being me, looked right back at her, smiled and said "I'll take those Doritos right there."
Nobody moved. She looked confused at my reply, but stood still. Finally I said "Ma'am, can I walk through please?"(in my most polite and irritating voice) She didn't budge. The kids were looking at me like I had 2 heads, but I know they speak english, as she just said something!
I had to move her cart to get the chips!
Which reminds me of a story from many years ago. It still makes me smile a little inside. I'll share. Although I was the childish one in this story.....
My hubby and I were remodeling. My cousin and I went to "HQ" (home quarters?) which was eventually put out of business, and "Home Depot" came along.
We had one of those push/pull carts full of 2X4 studs. We're both female btw.
It was close to closing time, but not there yet. We walked out to the truck, followed by the cart boy. I thought "How sweet, he's going to help us load".
He stood about 10 feet from us and watched us load the studs in the truck, 1 or 2 or 3 at a time. She and I were too polite to say anything, but we were making faces at each other kind of like "What the heck?!"
When we put the last stud in there, he started to move closer to us. I looked him straight in the eye and said "Are you telling me that you followed us out here and watched us load all of this, only so you could take this cart back inside?" He just nodded.
So, being the grown up that I was at the time, (mid 20's?) I took the cart to the far corner of the parking lot, she drove behind me in the truck, and we went home. I think he deserved it.
Anyway, I was walking down the chip aisle pushing a cart. Coming towards me, but far enough away to adjust the direction we're walking, is a woman with 2 children, maybe 6 & 8 or so. She stops midway through the aisle, almost centered, and a child stops on each side of her.
She looks right at me, and says "you go pick out a bag you agree on."
So, me being me, looked right back at her, smiled and said "I'll take those Doritos right there."
Nobody moved. She looked confused at my reply, but stood still. Finally I said "Ma'am, can I walk through please?"(in my most polite and irritating voice) She didn't budge. The kids were looking at me like I had 2 heads, but I know they speak english, as she just said something!
I had to move her cart to get the chips!
Which reminds me of a story from many years ago. It still makes me smile a little inside. I'll share. Although I was the childish one in this story.....
My hubby and I were remodeling. My cousin and I went to "HQ" (home quarters?) which was eventually put out of business, and "Home Depot" came along.
We had one of those push/pull carts full of 2X4 studs. We're both female btw.
It was close to closing time, but not there yet. We walked out to the truck, followed by the cart boy. I thought "How sweet, he's going to help us load".
He stood about 10 feet from us and watched us load the studs in the truck, 1 or 2 or 3 at a time. She and I were too polite to say anything, but we were making faces at each other kind of like "What the heck?!"
When we put the last stud in there, he started to move closer to us. I looked him straight in the eye and said "Are you telling me that you followed us out here and watched us load all of this, only so you could take this cart back inside?" He just nodded.
So, being the grown up that I was at the time, (mid 20's?) I took the cart to the far corner of the parking lot, she drove behind me in the truck, and we went home. I think he deserved it.
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