C2V wrote:
I seem to recall it being a politeness thing too - even in a supermarket or library, if someone was standing looking at a product / book, you went away and looked elsewhere then came back when they were gone.
Today I had some woman literally standing next to me and bending her head in front of me to look at something I was looking at, essentially getting right up in my space.
BirdInFlight wrote:
C2V, yes exactly, it seems to be that there's more rudeness in this form now. I too get people in a supermarket standing riiiight next to me, as close as only a really intimate friend or spouse or family member would, and they reach right in front of my face to get something, their arm almost touching my nose, and don't even say anything like "Sorry just getting this" or "Excuse me."
Yep...I've noticed these things happen much more frequently than they used to. Just yesterday at a clothing rack, a woman reached right in front of my face and yanked off a shirt that I had just flipped past. I was too stunned to even say anything. I think it's unbelievably rude, the right thing to do is to let the person look first and then come back after they move on. Especially shopping for something like clothes.
I can understand in the grocery store if they really just need that one thing and they don't want to wait around for it, but they should at least say something and give me a chance to move first before they stick their arm in my face. It's not just that they are too close, it's the element of surprise and throwing me off balance that makes it rude.
But when it's something that is not a necessity or does not come in multiple quantities...it just shows how greedy they are to get it first.
29 Jul 2016, 11:18 pm
