So, we were in Walmart the other afternoon picking up a few things. As I'm sure you're all well aware of, Walmart shoppers offer some very good comic relief. However, on the flip side it's also a place that can try your patients too. Sadly, common courtesy, as well as common sense are all but gone in our day to day interactions with others.
Let me also state for the record that JoAnne really doesn't like to take me shopping with her. Actually, and as a general rule, I don't think she likes to take me anywhere where people will be. Hmm, not sure why either. Another of life's mysteries, i.e. does the light in the fridge go out when the door is closed or why did the chicken cross the road, etc.
That being said, I went along for the ride anyway. So, as JoAnne is targeting specific isles to pick up the items on her list, I am slowly pushing our cart around, you know "browsing", and taking in the sites. Again, as any Walmart visitor can attest to, the isles are not very wide and product is stocked and stacked in the main isles throughout the stores. So, by now I'm in some back corner and as I turn to come up an isle there is this rather large woman, a younger woman I 'd guess in her mid twenties, who had parked her cart smack dab in the middle of the isle and is talking away on her cell phone. Now neither of these two items are cause for one's blood pressure to rise, however, what she did or rather didn't do, at that moment DID get under my skin (see previous statement regarding common courtesy). She just stood there going about her business and chatting away; never made an attempt to move herself or her cart to one side. It's like she was in her own living room and we didn't exist.
Just like Homey D. Clown from In Living Color always says, "Homey don't play that!". I too "don't play that" and took the liberty of "moving" her cart out of my way. Hmm, perhaps this is one of the reasons JoAnne doesn't like to shop with me?! However, and as you might imagine, me moving her cart of out my way wasn't done with tact or grace or care or gentleness, nope none of the above. Rather, I used the end of my cart to push hers out of the way. It sounded worse than it actually was. It got her attention thou that's for certain! She looked at me with wide eyed contempt that said what the fudge sickle and offered up a sarcastic "sorry". To which I responded, "No need to be sorry, I moved it!" - all with a smile and same sarcastic reply and off I went.
Oh, the joys!
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