u/Successful-Brain8778

LPT: Stop dead in your tracks and people suddenly notice they’re in your way.

Its an unspoken social etiquette that we all putter along, shuffling our feet and pretending the person in front of us in the grocery isle or queuing for the restroom in a crowd isn’t in our way. If you come to a dead stop, angled in the direction you wish you could proceed and gaze dead ahead, people suddenly notice you. The have always seen you out of the corner of their eye. but it’s only when you’re a completely stationary human being that you appear on their radar and a different social etiquette kicks in.

EDIT: I should clarify that this is 2-3 second move. And is meant to be a less aggressive option to “excuse me” in scenarios where people are taking unnecessary space. Oh well!

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u/Successful-Brain8778 — 5 days ago

Barons sucks and I miss Smart and Final

Bougie, expensive, pretentious. Parking is worse than Trader Joes. But most of all the layout is obviously designed to inconvenience you and make sure it takes as long as possible to find what you’re looking for. Its impossible for more than one cart to get in or out of the the 23 degree angle intersections and the end caps make it clear that they’ve figured out they get a sales bump on purchases while you’re slowed down or stopped. I’m so sick of being milked for every second and every cent. I guess it’s more delivery for me. /rant

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u/Successful-Brain8778 — 9 days ago