Gripes with Groceries

Originally posted September 10, 2008

What is it with people when they enter the grocery store? I swear that they leave their brains and courtesy in their cars. It’s like everyone walks into this florescent vacum of strange smells and tile floors, not caring what’s going on outside the little bubble that protects them from the rest of the hordes doing their weekly shopping.
People walking about mindlessly pushing these giant metal carts that just have to be filled with the things that the television tells us we need. You push your own cart around the end of the aisle into the next only to be met with an assault course of people and carts standing about like statues. Is there an rule written somewhere I have never seen that states that it is your absolute duty while grocery shopping to cause as much inconvenience as possible to everyone else? To abandon your metal-monster in the centre of the aisle as you search the shelves, completely ignoring everything and everyone around you? Do you really need to completely block off the aisle discussing the coming weekend activity with the family?

Its called being inconsiderate. Show some courtesy and hug the side so that others can pass on by.