1y ago

I'm happy to move if they'd pay for my meal

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I have people follow me to my car at the grocery store when they notice I'm in a good spot (there are other, less desirable spots available, mind you). I take my sweet time loading my bags make sure nothing will tip over in transit. And during the time I'm loading, sometimes I decide I need something from the adjacent liquor store.
I've never understood why people sit and wait for spots when there's spots available. Drive around. If someone is pulling out, sure, but don't watch people load their shit up.
- I've noticed people who are constantly trying to 'cheat' their way in life end up falling behind those who just do things the normal way.
  
  Yeah and they all work at my company. I swear to God there's people who put more time and effort into avoiding doing work than it would be to just do the work. The worst is when they get angry at me for how long it takes for me to do their job.
  Anyway I probably should get back to searching for another job...
  
  I've noticed the opposite unfortunately
  
  Oh you nailed it. Every millionaire worked hard and earned it. None of them just cheat or work the system. There's so much wisdom in this comment
  
  I don't know if there are just a bunch of bootlickers out today, or are they all autistic from getting the jab and don't understand sarcasm.
  
  Can't wait until they do an IQ test of people who trust vaccines vs those that don't 😅
- Whenever someone is waiting for me to unload my groceries and move, I suddenly have the urge to check my messages and catch up on some blah blah blah. Doesn't really matter what.
  The moment the person moves on, I remember what I was doing. Doesn't matter if they immediately do a u turn and snag it, that's not the point.
  The point is I'm petty and you can do a lap.
- Well, some people are lazy, but some people like me have a kid that would benefit from a closer spot.
  
  I got two. I park where there's three open spots together to avoid altogether even the small possibility of a door making contact with an adjacent vehicle. I feel you though, I do also like to get them off the blacktop sooner rather than later.
  
  ya, I remembered when my kid was 1 1/2 and wanted to walk everywhere. He almost got ran over by some dipshit in a BMW. So, I always try and park closer to the building.
  
  Yeah, parking lots are worse than roads sometimes. And kids also lack in the self preservation department sometimes too.
- At the Costco by me following a person to their car is the only way to get a spot... The parking lot legitimately fills completely, unless you're willing to park very far away where there aren't even cart returns...
  
  The parking lot legitimately fills completely, unless you're willing to park very far away
  So, it doesn't fill completely...
  
  I see the guy said Texas after so probably, but where I live you would have to park outside the anti shipping cart theft wheel lock zone.
  
  I don't think you get the scale of parking lots in Texas, or how far back you'd have to walk to return your cart at that point. I'm not even sure that part of the parking area isn't technically the next restaurant's lot instead.
  
  All I read is that you don't want to walk.
  
  Fair enough
  
  Okay yeah, I'm a bit more awake now. I don't want to walk, and if you're packing up your car, I think it's fair for me to wait patiently for you to finish up to take your spot. You're already clearly intending to leave, and I don't mind if you take a minute to set up your GPS or whatever, it's not like I'm honking at you.
  
  Yeah, not sure why you've been absolutely blasted by downvoters. How is someone silently waiting for another to vacate a spot they've indicated they will soon be leaving some harsh, aggressive gesture? Somehow, the silent, vague "pressure" that someone is also interested in something they've temporarily occupied is distressing. Public bathrooms must be hell for them.
  
  Honestly, your point is way better than mine, and even you've received downvotes for it. Like, bathroom lines exist. Sucks if you have shy bladder, but that doesn't make the person behind you need to pee any less either.
  
  Yeah, except you're standing in the doorway, literally the frame of the door, waiting for one specific toilet to become available because it suits your needs, in spite of the one next to it being available as well, and now everyone's gotta brush up against you to get in and out of the goddamn bathroom.
  
  It's more like there's another toilet available at the other end of the terminal, and everything in this bathroom is occupied. Again, lines for bathrooms exist.
  
  To be fair, your example would be more analogous to another grocery store. I will not be swayed from this pointless opinion!
  
  unless you’re willing to park very far away where there aren’t even cart returns…
  Gosh, you have to WALK and even RETURN YOUR CART?
  Oh, the humanity!
  
  do you act like this in real life
  
  And that's an issue with that Costco and that sucks, I've certainly been to places where there's just too much traffic that the lot cannot support it. My local grocery store just isn't like this. If you move down the aisle you'll find spots, just 100 feet more of a walk.
  
  Not in California dude too many people not enough land.
  
  Must be different in your part of California, where I'm at it isn't an issue at all... Almost always plenty of spaces if you're willing to walk an extra fifty feet and people will still camp for better spots in perfect weather. It's honestly maddening.
  
  I'm in Jersey, so I think I know what you mean.
- Yeah, I don't sit and block traffic because I'm too lazy to find another spot. "Do unto others," you know? I don't like being made to move faster because you just need this spot.
  EDIT: And hold up, you'll move your car and load it? So you will leave your groceries just in a cart, go and move your car to some further spot, and load it there? How is that at all the right thing to do? Where are you moving your car to, an empty spot? Like, one the person who's sitting there waiting could've parked their car?
  
  Yeah, maybe I don't understand what you mean on the second point. But aisle widths where I'm from run 20-24 feet for two-way traffic, and while, sure, you can fit three side by side, you're getting tight, and the lot is full of folks who generally don't understand the size of their vehicle and so you get a bottleneck. I just think waiting for a spot is rude, and you apparently feel differently, and that's fine. If it means anything, I'm not downvoting you, I think we're having a discussion, one that I started in particular, and I'm always down to talk about things that are ultimately pretty meaningless, because it's much better than talking about things that matter.
  
  It's rude because it blocks traffic.
  
  While you spend 20 minutes doing that, I’ll be driving home
  
  No, sorry, the dick move is sitting around blocking all traffic while you wait for someone to load their car. You don't even know for sure they're about to leave, they may have forgotten something and need to run back in. Or may have various other reasons that it takes a few minutes to finish and back out that you have no way of knowing.
  Forcing everyone behind you to wait for you to get your desired spot is incredibly self centered and arrogant.
  
  Glad to see this downvoted.

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