What is your pet peeve of the day? -- 2021

[Aerides]

I don't care which direction someone is going in the store, but if their cart is on the left, and their ass is on the right while they stare at the shelf, it's a full aisle block.

But no I have never heard of any "rule" about walking on the same side we drive. If anything the opposite - walk facing traffic.

 

[disneysteve]

Would you also complain if someone kept their cart in their "lane" but had the temerity to cross the aisle on foot and block the "throughway" on your side of the "street" to grab something off the shelf?

Yep. People have no positional awareness. They completely block the aisle totally ignorant to the fact that they are doing so.

 

[Qs Laptop]

Yep. People have no positional awareness. They completely block the aisle totally ignorant to the fact that they are doing so.

So, should this person go to the end of the aisle, make a U-turn, then come back up on the "right" side of the aisle to grab something off the shelf?

 

[Gumby]

I don't care which side you go up or down the aisle. I will adjust as necessary. I do care if your cart is on one side and you are on the other, fully blocking the aisle. Just stand on the same side as your cart, whatever that side is. Again, it goes to having awareness of the space you occupy and the fact that others may need to use some of that space too.

 

[WhenIsItTime]

Honestly, ...

 

[disneysteve]

I don't care which side you go up or down the aisle. I will adjust as necessary. I do care if your cart is on one side and you are on the other, fully blocking the aisle. Just stand on the same side as your cart, whatever that side is. Again, it goes to having awareness of the space you occupy and the fact that others may need to use some of that space too.

This, exactly. It's fine to be on the left side or the right side as long as you aren't totally blocking the aisle in the process.

 

[disneysteve]

I remember during Covid that stores DID have painted arrows on the floor directing the traffic flow a certain way.

One of the few things I miss about the pandemic is grocery shopping. That was the best. Only a limited number of people allowed in the store at a time. Only single shoppers so no family with mom, dad, 6 kids, 2 carts, and a double stroller clogging the aisles. One-way aisles. And everyone had to stay at least 6 feet away from me. It was heavenly.

 

[Pointby2]

In the grocery store, either side is fine with me too. However that doesn't apply on sidewalks, running/bike paths or the highway.

 

[disneysteve]

In the grocery store, either side is fine with me too. However that doesn't apply on sidewalks, running/bike paths or the highway.

Yeah, same problem there. If everyone keeps to the right, traffic flows so much better.

 

[Qs Laptop]

One of the few things I miss about the pandemic is grocery shopping. That was the best. Only a limited number of people allowed in the store at a time. Only single shoppers so no family with mom, dad, 6 kids, 2 carts, and a double stroller clogging the aisles. One-way aisles. And everyone had to stay at least 6 feet away from me. It was heavenly.

Yes, we all miss the restriction on freedom of movement caused by Covid. Sheesh...

 

[disneysteve]

Yes, we all miss the restriction on freedom of movement caused by Covid. Sheesh...

I also miss the absence of traffic going to and from work everyday where I spent 12 hours in a hazmat suit and came home with sores on my nose and ears from the mask while I diagnosed and treated covid patients all day. It made the horror a tiny bit less horrific.

 

[Gumby]

I also miss the absence of traffic going to and from work everyday where I spent 12 hours in a hazmat suit and came home with sores on my nose and ears from the mask while I diagnosed and treated covid patients all day. It made the horror a tiny bit less horrific.

That was heroic work, and I appreciate your efforts.

 

[braumeister]

I have never heard of any "rule" about walking on the same side we drive. If anything the opposite - walk facing traffic.

Something that used to mystify me when I was young. My mom always told me that although you were suppose to keep right when driving a car, when you walked on the sidewalk you should keep left. When I asked why, she just said "That's how it's done."

Eventually I figured it out. Keep to the left was what she was told by her mother, and her mother was raised by her grandmother who grew up in Ireland (where you keep left). That was before cars, so the driving on the right rule didn't apply.

 

[MichaelB]

I was taught to ride my bike with traffic and walk against it.

I’m reminded of my dad with the peeves about supermarket aisles. Thry shopped at the Great Lakes commissary and mum would tell me he would shake his cane at and admonish people for walking / pushing carts the wrong way. Apparently the aisles had arrow markers. We once got him a cane with a squeeze horn as a holiday gift.
shake his cane at people and point

 

[audreyh1]

There’s no Waffle House less than a day’s drive from my home. What will I tell my foreign friends when they travel to visit me?

It’s funny, DF always ate breakfast at Huddle House which was a slightly later mimic of Waffle House also based in Decatur GA. Small town where everybody knew everybody so eating breakfast was a social occasion. I remember neighboring farmers meeting there too.

Found this updated 2007 article about Waffle House origins. How Waffle House became a cultural icon - Atlanta Magazine

P.S. I think you live in the wrong part of the country for ubiquitous Waffle Houses.

 

[jollystomper]

I do not care if one has the cart left, right, or center in the shopping aisle. Just *please* look forward when you are pushing the cart forward, and not at the stuff on the shelf or one's phone or behind you. And do not look surprised when your cart stops because you have run into me.

 

[disneysteve]

I do not care if one has the cart left, right, or center in the shopping aisle. Just *please* look forward when you are pushing the cart forward, and not at the stuff on the shelf or one's phone or behind you.

The Instacart shoppers are hazards in that regard. They are on their phone the entire time following their online orders, zipping through the store filling their carts as quickly as possible. Some days there are more of them in the aisles than regular shoppers. So many people switched to delivery during COVID and never went back to shopping for themselves.

 

[Texas Proud]

The Instacart shoppers are hazards in that regard. They are on their phone the entire time following their online orders, zipping through the store filling their carts as quickly as possible. Some days there are more of them in the aisles than regular shoppers. So many people switched to delivery during COVID and never went back to shopping for themselves.

OHHH...yea a peeve...

They have those big carts where I shop and are doing multiple orders at the same time.. and sometimes leave the cart in the middle of the isle walking back and forth picking for different orders... like others, move it to one side or the other....

And to add... the people who stand there staring at their phone and you want something they are covering up... and ignore you asking them to move... not often but still...

 

[TrvlBug]

The Instacart shoppers are hazards in that regard. They are on their phone the entire time following their online orders, zipping through the store filling their carts as quickly as possible. Some days there are more of them in the aisles than regular shoppers. So many people switched to delivery during COVID and never went back to shopping for themselves.

What's worse is being stuck behind them in the checkout line. They are processing at least 3 orders and every single one of them has an issue . They should be required to wear a hat advising Instacart here so I can get in the other much longer checkout line and get done before they are!

 

[disneysteve]

What's worse is being stuck behind them in the checkout line. They are processing at least 3 orders and every single one of them has an issue . They should be required to wear a hat advising Instacart here so I can get in the other much longer checkout line and get done before they are!

Wegmans has a dedicated checkout area for the online shoppers which is nice.

 

[folivier]

I hate grocery shopping in general for all the reasons listed here. But I also have no problem with moving someone's cart when it's in my way.

 

[RunningBum]

The interwebs tell me that the nearest Waffle House is 130 miles away. I say that's just fine, thanks.

Awful House. Everything tastes so greasy and sits heavy in my stomach.

 

[CO-guy]

On my mountain bike ride this morning I came up behind some guy on a rented e-bike. I gave the standard "coming up behind you" since we were on single track.

The initial warning was followed up with a much louder "I'm right behind you" once I was practically on his wheel. That startled him enough to pull over before exclaiming, "I thought e-bikes have the right of way." I couldn't tell if he was joking, so kept on pedaling since I hadn't put a foot down.

Right as I went past he yelled, "which way does this trail go?" I responded by shouting back, "East!" Then I hit rewind on the Doobie Brothers so I could "Listen to the Music" uninterrupted.

 

[audreyh1]

I do not care if one has the cart left, right, or center in the shopping aisle. Just *please* look forward when you are pushing the cart forward, and not at the stuff on the shelf or one's phone or behind you. And do not look surprised when your cart stops because you have run into me.

I recently looked in the grocery store and the aisles are wide enough to handle 3 carts wide.