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Originally Posted by Knut
People that have no situational awareness that they might be blocking someone from getting by. They stop right in a bottle neck or exit to a store to put a card away in their purse, check their phone or to stop and comment to someone they are with.
I dunno maybe I spend too much time thinking if what I am doing is inconvenient to someone else. I’ll inch up at an intersection so the person behind me turning right can squeeze by. I always move my cart out of the way if I am going to look at a product or something. My wife thinks I try too hard to not inconvenience people to the detriment of myself or family. But I just think if we all did this stuff life would be so much more stress free.
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I think it's about being mindful about the things that are actually inconveniencing others, but having a line beyond which you don't sweat the small stuff.
(i.e. worrying about holding the door for someone a whole 5 mississipies behind you)
There is a point where it is a detriment to you, especially if you are anxiously looking for anything and not comfortable with the fact that you're taking up space in public trying to accomplish your own goals. You have the right to go about your business too.
But yeah, jerks who don't seem to have peripheral vision or awareness in stores that either block people's paths through an aisle or impede any one else from getting their poultry or beef and make the widest stance possible contemplating a purchase for longer than is reasonable are bums to the fullest degree.
..unless they're blind, then you're the jerk.