re: Is there any place that people have less self-awareness than grocery stores?

When folks have nowhere to be, all day to get there, and some other baw via uncle sugar is paying for their shite, why should they be concerned about inconveniencing you a little bit more?

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So many people posted up at a spot for 5 minutes not allowing someone else to grab an item there

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So many people scared to say "Excuse me"

The majority of my shopping is done at The Fresh Market, it’s more expensive but there’s no riff raff, it’s not crowded, and there is very rarely a line at the cashier. It also helps that it’s the closest grocery store to my house.

parking lots

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A lot of people are on their phones while shopping.

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On speaker while blocking everyone else just sends murderous thoughts through my head.

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Not sure where you live, but go to the grocery when the women are at spin/Orange Theory, etc. Unless you're trying to pick them up, of course.


The most relaxing time to be at H-E-B is around 1000 on a weekday, when all the trophy wives are working out or getting mimosas before kid pickup. Sunday is probably the worst day to go. Saturday may be next worse.

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Also, don't go around the first of the month, as that's when EBT cards are filled and gub'mint checks are received.

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Airports. Some people just go full retard

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It should be a felony to just stop unexpectedly in the middle of the terminal for no apparent reason.

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Sidewalks. Many a quick walk to class has been thwarted by slow moving oblivious blobs, who often walk side by side.

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I was going to say a version of this. Michigan Avenue in Chicago was terrible for obliviousness, King St here in Charleston is very similar.

Almost every time I go to a grocery store lately I find myself texting the wife shortly thereafter bitching about how oblivious the average idiot there is. I don't know if they're just oblivious, or they give that little of a frick about other people, or some combination of both, but whatever it is, it is absolutely appalling how little effort people make to get their arse out the fricking way. I think it's more likely people are just incapable of seeing anything from anybody else's perspective besides their own.

Just the other day I was walking down an aisle heading for the checkout lanes and before I could get out the aisle, some bitch swings her cart into the aisle without looking, blocks my exit, then stops to talk with her friend, totally unaware that she had effectively trapped another person. Our carts had almost collided and it didn't even register a thought in her brain. I gave her 5 seconds to figure it out on her own, which of course she didn't, so I said excuse me I need to get by. She looks up annoyed that I interrupted her conversation and barely gives me enough room to get by.

There was another time a while back that some lady was blocking an entire aisle, so I said excuse me, and she ignored me. I said it louder, and she still ignored me. So I moved her cart myself, then swerved mine around it and she took a step back while I was swerving and I ran over her foot with my cart . My first instinct was to say Sorry, but this bitch starts wailing and making a scene like she was just hit by a car. So I rolled my eyes and left her there. Should've moved your arse out the way.