So my original post from yesterday got flamed by the Admin. guy (dude!!), so here it is again, more or less . . .

Is it just me, OR . . .

People shopping at Wal Mart, Safeway, (insert name here), a lot of the time do not have a sense of the personal space of others, i.e., leaving their shopping cart parked sideways in the middle of the aisle, and then looking suprised when you ask them to move so you can get by them . . .

MH Lady, and anyone else, any comments or suggestions???

Ramming and an "oops, excuse me" is always fun.

I hate the "Shopping cart morons" that leave the cart in the space next to their car (you know, the one I'd pull into if it didn't have a freakin' cart in it!) rather than take it back to the rack. I may start approving of water-boarding (don't hold your breath) if it would apply to them.

I actually had to stick my elbows out from my body because this family somehow seemed to keep following me from aisle to aisle and ramming into me. They even ended up behind me in the checkout line, and the teenager kept bumping into me as I was inputting my debit card. I can only say 'excuse me' so many times when it isn't my fault. The elbow trick was quite effective. I also enjoy it when the offending person says, "oh, they don't make these aisles wide enough", and I respond, 'Yeah, especially when you park your cart sideways in the middle of it". The preceeding is always said with a smile and a nod of head and leaves them wondering, what the f***?????

I just don't shop there.
There was a life before Wall Mart, and there is a life after, too.

I don't care for Safeway... occasionally shop at Top Foods, mostly shop at Jay's, Marketplace, Swansons (local), and up in Olympia, at the Oly Food Co-op.

Target has all the stuff Wall Mart does, except less of it is made in China, and Target is owned by a liberal, progressive, union-loving company (Dayton-Hudson). I shop there occasionally, maybe 3 times a year.

The "shopping cart hogs" bug me as well. I'm a big-enough guy and I try to leave as much room on the other side (staying to the right) as I can and people still jam into me like I'm the problem.

This is also part of the reason why I go grocery shopping late at night (at Safeway). Less people and faster to get through everything.

On the rare occassion I must go to WalMart, I've found early morning wonderful!

I find:

*Lots of parking
*Easy going through uncrowded aisles
*Short lines, and
*Pleasent staff that haven't been tainted by a full day serving jerks

Woot! Except for the part about Oly Food Co-Op (although I wouldn't be opposed to doing that, too), I could have written this post.

Wal-Mart free for 3 years, 2 months!

Our worst shopping-cart nightmare was at Toys'R Us back when the kids were kiddies at Christmas time. The aisles were so packed you literally could only slowly follow the people in front of you. Even for people without a cart it was almost impossible to squeeze around everybody else. (Yeah, bad timing on our part.) One lady kept ramming her cart into Mr. Funky's back leg...as if he had somewhere to go to get out of her way!! Unbelievable! He eventually let her move in front of him which took quite a bit of maneuvering. It was all I could do to keep him from repeatedly ramming her in the back of her leg in retaliation. Gosh, I even think I had to buy him a toy to keep him occupied while I finished filling the cart.

Screw Walmart, let's talk about how cool tsunamitsurfer's photo is. Is that from the memorial committee? I went to their Lounge Acts show last year and am looking forward to this year's show.

Welcome, FR! But....naaaahhhhhh

My daughter's band tried out to play in the memorial concert slated for the 7th St. in the fall and didn't win. I'm boycotting all things Cobain.

(tease. I tease, Tsunami!)

! am of the same though as tsunamitsurfer, shop late and avoid most of the morons. For myself drive past Walmart and avoid all the morons