"it only takes one slow walking person in the grocery store to destroy the illusion that you're a nice person."

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• Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Skip one aisle and come back.

  Start at the end and go the opposite direction you normally would.

  Park off to the side and check your phone for a minute.

  It’s really not hard to not be an asshole. Some of y’all just weren’t raised right.

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  • Carmakazi@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Some of y’all just weren’t raised right.

    Yeah, the people who move through crowded spaces with no awareness nor concern of how they’re impeding others.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      This does not include slow walking people in grocery stores.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m fine with them going their own speed and I’m fine with being stuck behind them when there’s a legitimate blockage. However when they can’t afford me the same courtesy of going my own speed, when they unnecessarily block the aisle, they’re the assholes.

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• guille2a@chachara.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve long legs and I walk fast, if I had to get angry for every person slower than me I’d be dead already. Just use another path and leave people walk at their conformable speed.

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  • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If only we came from the land of bountiful row width in grocery stores, we could.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The crazy part is they even manage to get in the way at Costco, where the aisles are so much wider

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• Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ll be patient most of the time, but this isn’t a one way street. The other person should also have situational awareness to make room, not block the entire path, not jackknife their cart. Also my desire to go fast is equally as valid as their desire to meander / dilly dally. As long as I’m not running them over there is nothing wrong with shopping at my pace, saying excuse me, or passing them when they are taking too long.

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• anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not the slow walkers. It’s the aisle blockers.

  How are you so fucking self absorbed you can’t see that you’re blocking the aisle?

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  • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same people that come to a dead stop in an entryway.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t realise how widely people can have conversations til you visit the grocery store. Wide. Conversations.

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  • raspirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I read this with the cadence of the “Curved. Swords.” dialog from a Skyrim guard.

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• benderbeerman@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Could there be a connection

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t let it get to me.

  I usually go through the store following the same path, picking up the same items every week. If something is blocking the way, I’ll skip the aisle and come back to it. Every time, when I come back, the aisle is clear.

  No one owes me anything. They don’t owe me walking faster, or staying out of the aisle, or whatever other little things people bitch about because apparently they’ve run out of important things to bitch about. Life should be so good for all of us.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I must subconsciously go to the supermarket when there are fewer people there. Because the few times I have to go during peak hours I ask myself why there are suddenly so many people.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to intentionally go off peak but my current grocery is only stocked during peak hours

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  • ericwdhs@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not consciously? I build it into my routine. If I can’t hit the grocery store within an hour or so of them opening, I usually wait until 30 minutes from closing time to visit. Shopping in a mostly empty store is just too nice to do anything else.

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• AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They are perfectly welcome to walk at whatever speed they prefer …. As long as they allow me the same courtesy

  It’s very rare to find a grocery with aisles less than three carts wide so you need an extreme lack of self-awareness to become an obstruction. I’m patient with slowness, but why should I be patient with obstructions: they chose to obstruct, not just go at their own speed. They chose to be rude to everyone else

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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You know folks, there are things you can do to communicate that you need to get by…

  Things like:

  *Asking nicely in a heavy cowboy voice.

  *Wearing a diaper over your denim shorts.

  *Tasmanian Devil impressions.

  I’m in and out of there in 5 minutes every time!

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So true. Just the other day I went to the supermarket before noon (which I rarely do) and … well, let’s say my appreciation for covid and heatwaves went up considerably!

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• Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No that’s fine. I’m tired and not moving fast either.

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