Jer and I were in line at the concession stand at the movie on Friday night waiting our turn. This guy with his two kids comes up and says, "Are you in line?" I turned around and said, "Yes." Then he said, "Is there a reason you are standing so far back?" I must have had a crazy look on my face when I replied, "Just respecting personal space is all."
WTF? I was so tempted to go ape-o on the guy. I was too shocked to come up with a more witty response!
I actually think that was a great response. I'm going to use that in the future because people ask this of me all the time. Why else would I be standing there? A lady at Target did this to me the other day, and when she asked if I was in line, I said, "Yes, and so are the two people behind me." She didn't even see the line. I call this Tetriscopic - the desire to take any gap that might be open without pausing to look at the whole situation.
the WORST are the crazy (generally foreign because of personal space culture) families with spastic kids. they'll come right up and stand 2 inches from you with their kids in front of them doing some crazy dance that run into you every 10 seconds.
and then when you kick their kids in the stomach really hard they get all uppity about it like it's your fault.
I just like to turn around and give my best monster roar at the top of my lungs. I do it until the kid loses bladder control and then hope the parent learned his/her lesson. Or I wish I could do this...
Fungus or not, people should not put their feet anywhere near me, especially near my face. It drives me nuts when people think that they can still use my chair for a foot rest when I'm sitting there.
That reminds me of one of my favorite Dr. Cox quotes from Scrubs...something like, "If someone is in front of me in line at the coffee shop and can't decide what they want in the half hour it took to get to the register, I should be allowed to kill them."
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Jer and I were in line at the concession stand at the movie on Friday night waiting our turn. This guy with his two kids comes up and says, "Are you in line?" I turned around and said, "Yes." Then he said, "Is there a reason you are standing so far back?" I must have had a crazy look on my face when I replied, "Just respecting personal space is all."
WTF? I was so tempted to go ape-o on the guy. I was too shocked to come up with a more witty response!
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the WORST are the crazy (generally foreign because of personal space culture) families with spastic kids. they'll come right up and stand 2 inches from you with their kids in front of them doing some crazy dance that run into you every 10 seconds.
and then when you kick their kids in the stomach really hard they get all uppity about it like it's your fault.
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