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Special harness? No, spatial awareness - as in people knowing what things are in their immediate vicinity and being able to avoid knocking into them. This seems to be something of a dying art in this country.
Take a visit to the supermarket, for a start. It always amazes me that people think it's a good idea to park their trolley right behind someone who has bent down to get something off a shelf. As the person grasps their tin of baked beans, in a 'Eureka moment', they straighten up and step back - and crash into the abandoned trolley. (That was me, today).
Another amusing little idea is to wait until someone is unpacking their basket at the tills, trying to find their purse and at the same time, talk to the cashier. Then is precisely the optimum moment for some enormous bloke to squeeze his way through the till area, having wandered around and decided not to buy anything.
Great. A bit of warning like muttering 'Excuse me' wouldn't go amiss but apparently, that's just too much trouble. So you're half way through paying and you get jabbed in the backside and drop your debit card.
Further pitfalls await you the minute you venture out of the supermarket and try to get some money from the cash point. Again, there are certain shoppers who just love to park their pushchair or push-bike behind you while you're at the ATM grappling with your purse, pressing buttons and can't see because the sun's shining on the screen. Having positioned some obstacle right behind you, they go and talk to someone and look surprised when you fall to the ground.
Spatial awareness... where did it go?
By: Fedupinwales
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Are people getting more careless or just more stupid?
Perhaps it's a city thing where overcrowding results in people switching off their awareness of other people.
I am returning her to the factory, under warranty, to be reprogrammed, while she is there I am having the optional package programmed into her: wash my feet, clip my toenails, football addict, no watching soaps on the telly, etc
What are they doing in a shop if they are skint, shoplifting? grazing?"
Stalag14 - 1-May-12 06:55
Don't be facetious. Consider that maybe the person counting out change doesn't have a convenient £20 note and ha to count out change from their purse as it's all they have, maybe, just maybe you are not so important that other people deliberately hold you up at the check out!!! Rather they are in need of something from the shop and have limited resources and need to count the money out.
What are they doing in a shop if they are skint, shoplifting? grazing?
Too many women have what i call "The Stepford Wife Syndrome" they waft around the supermarket as if "they" are the centre of the universe, the same attitude prevails at the checkout where "they" make everyone wait while they insist on counting out the payment right to the last penny, where as the quick way is to give the cashier a twenty pound note or whatever, "they" also make everyone wait when bagging up AFTER payment has been made instead of bagging up during scanning, then a further delay while "they" sort out their handbag etc. GRRRRRRR! (the missus agrees with me!)
Some equally bad ones are those who are pushing their trolley, while on the phone and trying to control a screaming brat that's jumping around inside the trolley. Lesson:.. you cannot control a loaded trolley under those circumstances.
As a side note...if a man bumps into me by accident in a supermarket, he'll almost always say "sorry mate" or similar. It's sad to say that many women are either oblivious that they've nearly knocked my legs from under me, or they just glare at me for the cheek of being where they want to be. Sometimes, we feel like we're invisible, with shoppers walking straight into us of pushing in front of us while we're looking at something on the shelves.
TWO were parked inside a theatre...no one on them.Right by the leaflets section.Couldn't reach.A by law will come...meanwhile the numbers of these space taking lethal weapons ridden by incompetents increases.Some people on these can walk.What is going on?
They just aim them straight ahead and nothing gets in their way, and when did a simple baby buggy stop having just four wheels in favour of eight? Or those silly, three wheeled jobs that are about five feet long?
They buy the biggest buggy they can find, load them up with about a month's worth of shopping, then expect to get them down the aisle of a bus and wonder why people get a teensy bit irritated when slapped in the face with a bag full of frozen food from Iceland!
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