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Tuesday 22 April 2014

Shopping Centres should have the same rules as on the road.

You know what drives me mad?
When you are trying to navigate your way around a shopping centre or supermarket and people just cut across in front of you or stop without warning. Seriously It drives me mad.
Women with prams seem to think they own the place and can push that thing where they want and how they want and too bad if they run into you, coz they are the bigger 'vehicle' and so have automatic right of way.
Ahhh... yeah... no you don't.
I believe if the same rules for driving applied to pedestrian traffic through a shopping centre then it would be so much easier (for me).
I like my personal space. I don't like people bumping into me or dawdling so you can't get past them despite the fact you are right behind them, breathing down their necks and moving from side to side trying to get a clear path through.
I reached the point one day where I actually tapped the couple blocking my path and said to them 'you know if you both take half a step away from each other you will be able to fully block the walkway' they weren't too pleased with my comment and moved out my way.
Same as people who stop to chat. Hell I run into folk I meet all the time and yeah we stop to chat, but guess... what we move to the side... out of the way so we don't block traffic. My friends are now used to me asking them to move so we don't block traffic.
I want to shout at people 'THE WAY...GET OUT OF IT' but I can't really. Manners and all.
Curse my obsession with manners, it is my downfall in these places. I am forced to grit my teeth and smile at meandering mothers with their children who they let touch everything and don't teach them not to touch what isn't theirs. While I try to pick up an item that does not have kiddy snot or drool all over it.
So if road rules were applied to shopping centres and supermarkets this is what we would see.
Order.
Folk walking around mindful of other people. Not actively trying to mow you down with the trolley's and prams. Not moving at a snail pace preventing you from getting by them. Nice neat groups of people out of the way enjoying a trouble free chat.
Shoppers on a mission walking a brisk pace glancing over their shoulder before changing direction so as to avoid cutting someone off.
Order.

You don't read an article jumping around all over the place from one line or word to the next. It makes no sense.
You don't speak jumping between conversations and topics at break neck pace and expect people to know what you are talking about.
You don't drive wherever you like on the road or footpath with no regard for other motorists.
Then you shouldn't wander around like Browns cows in the shopping centre.
Or I may just have to consider you a game of dodge ball and start throwing things at you.
hmmm now there's an idea.

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