Come on “lady” you are old enough to know that the polite reaction to needing to invade my personal space in getting produce is to say excuse me. As you recall, I sternly said “Oh I am sorry excuse me” as YOU grabbed across me not once but several times and made it impossible for me to stay in the same spot. I wonder how bad your life must be to simply disregard how to act towards people in public. Poor husband wheeling the cart! Sometimes Halifax I think you lack manners in a big way! —Just do it!
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2013.
Ob, are you part of the walking dead? They stand in front of a display, staring, totally spaced out, unable to make up their mind if they want to buy something.
I bet you own a bicycle?
Staring blankly at green globe grapes will not produce an epiphany.
Spiny Norman, I love your moniker.
Why are you blaming Halifax? With that reasoning I could say, come on Halifax I think you’re a bunch of window shoppers in the produce isle.
Your mistake was apologizing to her. The correct response would be: Excuse me, but I believe that I was here first. Do you mind? All said in a sarcastic tone.
If she persists, you further respond with: Madam, please stop being so rude!
If she still continues, throw the produce at her.
I honestly picture the woman that HAS to go through every pack of Strawberries for the one that will stay fresh a week longer then the rest. But when shes done with strawberries the woman starts looking at the pints of blueberries…… Then people reach over her instead of waiting five plus minutes to see if shes going for some lettuce too.
Later on you see her in the dairy isle looking for the bag of milk that will stay freshest the longest and all you need is coffee cream that happens to be above that almost expired milk she detests. Do you reach over her again?She’s not done yet, a dozen eggs are also on her list.
Finally its check out time. Hold on, its her in front of you. You wonder how could that have possibly happened? Your thought gets crushed when you realize she’s a price matching coupon hoarder that has one too many items for the express checkout.
A week later you stop into Tim’s for a pee and a coffee. Just as you are entering the washroom she comes out of the men’s washroom (I know, its for men), but you bite your tongue again for this woman. You happen to glance into the one stall and realize the bitch just pissed all over the seat and didn’t even flush. Then another thought creeps in, she didn’t even wipe.
She was deciding which cucumber might be large enough to replace the 750cc Dildo she just wore out?
Where DO you get 750cc dildoes? Do they come in black?
They’re now known as Dildos of colour.
750cc Dildoes are made by the Japanese motor bike maker Krackatwatty, they come with extras like the ever popular lickaclitty which looks like a tongue. The younger models are out of service for a few days every month.
Do the 750cc’s come with an extended warranty?
THE SANCTITY OF INDIVIDUAL SPACE: GROCERY SHOPPING AS A MORALITY PLAY
“Come on ‘lady’ you are old enough to know that the polite reaction to needing to invade my personal space in getting produce is to say excuse me.” Just do it
We learned (Montrealman, “Entitled Motorists” 08/06, 9:30AM, comment #21) that all bitches conform to the plot as that contained in a morality play, ie. the triumph of virtue over vice. While the “hook,” the particular circumstances may differ, the plot is the same. So what is the hook here?
The hook here is the sanctity of one’s “personal space” which is “invaded” by boorish others. The scene is grocery shopping, but it doesn’t matter. Virtue is embodied the affronted shopper – “just do it” in this case – while vice, of course, is embodied in the anonymous shopper who wants to invade her space. But what is the subtext? On what grounds does virtue make its appeal here?
In the case of “Entitled Motorists” we saw that the bicycle trumped the car because it was more “natural” since bicycles, unlike cars, do not have polluting engines. In other words, the grounds of virtue were to be seen in the cyclist’s “purity of lifestyle,” a very common theme on Bitch. In the case of “Share the Road” we saw that the situation was reversed, that it was the motorist who was the affronted party but the the structure of the bitch was the same. The motorist appealed to the cyclist on the grounds of a “consideration for others,” on the grounds of common politeness. Now, where do you think “Grocery-Missed Manners” fits in?
It’s pretty obvious, isn’t it. Instead of bicycles and cars we have a violation of the sanctity of personal space, one of the untouchables on Bitch. Virtue consists in respecting the sanctity of that personal space while vice consists in its violation. Like everything else on Bitch, grocery shopping consists of a morality play. We never got to the end of the story but we can rest assured that virtue will overcome vice, as it always does.
Now I want you to go out and deconstruct the other bitches posted on the basis of their illustrating the conflict of virtue and vice, of their embodying both the content and structure of the traditional morality play. Good luck and Godspeed!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
I’m with you OP. I don’t care if you were there with a “deer in the headlights” stare trying to decide on what to buy or not. The point is you were there first. If she needed something “excuse me” is expected. If a person doesn’t excuse themselves I make a point to say “certainly”. They usually get the message and sometimes glares are exchanged. The odd time I get an “oh sorry, excuse me”. Not often. Society is definitely lacking in manners. I followed 5-6 older such “ladies” out a restaurant door. I had coffee in hand, on my way back to work. They had just finished their leisurely lunch. After exiting the restaurant they stopped in front of the doors to continue a big conversation, making it difficult for me to get by. I said excuse me not once, twice, but three times and all chose to ignore me. I had to push my way through. That was today. I do everything I can to be polite when I have to go in front of someone, I hold the door for people, I smile and say please and thank you. What is wrong with people??
Are the 750cc ones as silent as the 500cc ones? I don’t want the noise to disturb the bears in the bushes…
Maybe she was checking out your melons OP.