Sheessh! Talk about rude! This is the rudest posting I've seen in ages. Knock
it off.
Californians are remarkably courteous in supermarkets. Friendly, helpful, all
you can ask for. Try a New York City market if you want rudeness and neglect.
This poster is obviously a cranky, middle-aged man who can't keep a woman.
Who would want him ?
Mrmiss
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>Subject: Why are people so RUDE at the grocery store???
>From: Steelehtta
>Date: 1/15/2005 1:45 P.M. Pacific Standard Time
>Message-id: <hf2ju01m11e2b04sbc2b715e1730851cbs@news>
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>zyk wrote:
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>>I see more rudeness and nasty behavior during the weekly trip to the
>>grocery store than just about anywhere else, except perhaps on the
>>road. Why are people so nasty at the supermarket???
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>Yep, seen it all. Don't know where you live but here in Southern
>California people are too important and self-absorbed to be nice to
>anyone. When I was living in West Hollywood I can't tell you how many
>times I'd see some fool blocking up an entire aisle with his or her
>shopping cart parked sideways while they blurted into their cell phone
>that they'd been invited to the Oscars after party thanks to a friend
>of a friend of a friend of a friend of Brad Pitt or Jennifer Anniston
>or whoever. And don't even get me started on the porn stars at the
>Ralphs.
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>>Yesterday I nearly lost it. After the usual attacks and getting run
>>down by shopping carts being driven by aggressive, power mad insane
>>shoppers I stood there ready to scream. What nearly sent me over the
>>edge was this fat breeder **** driving her little brat mobile
>>recklessly, nearly running everyone down. You know those shopping
>>carts with the little kiddie cab thing built into them. She was
>>speeding into and out of every corner of the store, expecting everyone
>>to move out of her way so she and her drooling one year old could do
>>their shopping, it's more important than everyone else's.
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>Yep, seen them too. They usually have a crazed look on their faces as
>they zoom by you and don't look at anyone, as if they and their
>squealings are the only ones in the universe.
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>>Then come the office workers doing their shopping during lunch hour in
>>their power suits and high heels running everyone down cuz they gotta
>>get back to the office.
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>Most of them are jaded neurotic single women.
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>>I won't even go into the 40 and 50 year old women wearing sports bras
>>and spandex shorts bending over in front of every guy that walks by.
>>So subtle. Sheesh!
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>Ah, this is one of my favorites. You have to understand where this
>comes from. It all started with the women's magazines back in the
>feminist heyday of the 70s and early 80s. There were all these
>articles telling women that if they were over thirty and single their
>train had left the station and there was a greater chance of being hit
>by lightning than finding a man to marry them and impregnate them.
>They gave all sorts of off the wall advice to women who had put the
>careers first and their biological clocks were ticking so loud they
>were suffering from hearing loss to dress provocatively and throw
>themselves at men in public places. Two favorite ones were the gym
>and the grocery store. Designing Women had a hilarious episode on
>this. Ever since then the grocery store is considered a major
>cruising park for busy successful people (read: desperate lonely
>middle aged single people) whose battle gear seems to be bright
>spandex that strategically calls attention to their reproductive
>zones.
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>>Somewhere along the line someone decided that social rules and
>>courtesy and respect were going to be forbidden when shopping at the
>>grocery store and forgot to tell me!
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>>Why are people so damn rude at the grocery store???
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>It's the residue of the Baby Boomer "ME Generation". "It's all about
>me, me first, me always" that kind of mentality. Nothing you can do
>about it except to toughen up and learn to dish it out too. That
>stuff about being nice to others might work well in Omaha and the rest
>of flyover country, but if you're in the big cities on both coasts,
>it's eat or be eaten, unfortunately.
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