Clean Up on Aisle 7, Please

I know I have way too many of them and for the most part I’m really working on tolerance where my pet peeves are concerned, (I also own an entire island near the Bahamas where it never rains and gorgeous men magically appear with the next margarita on demand) *ahem.*

Where was I?  Oh yes pet peeves. I’ll tell you one that really seemed to flare up over the weekend…maybe this was because we had an extra long weekend with the holiday Monday and a school snow day on the Friday before—making it a mini-vacation right after winter break.  What ever the case maybe, I noticed that these people seemed to be causing undo stress and commotion in the local grocery stores—and it has become my biggest pet peeve as of late. 

Let me explain.

You see—I don’t just go shopping.  Nope. I have a list, coupons, reusable shopping bags, and an order that I visit my local grocery stores on the weekend.  When I go shopping, I go shopping with a purpose. I know what I will buy in Store A, Store B, and Store C (yes I shop three grocery stores for the best deals).  I know the layout of these stores, where the items are located (within close proximity), and yes as silly as this may sound, I put my coupons in the order I will encounter the items, as I take my usual route through the store.  Crazy?? Maybe.  I’ll give you that. I call it Efficient.

My job is to go to the store, get what I need, save as much money as I can and get out as quickly as possible. There is no dilly-dallying around.  There is no Lolly-gagging in the aisles.  I walk in, wipe down my shopping cart, put my reusable bags underneath, my coupons on top of my purse in front of me and away I go. Perhaps to the die hard shopper this may seem like blasphemy—and so be it. I want to get in, get out, hit the next store—and eventually make it home before 5 kids dismantle the dwelling we call home. Oh that, and I just can’t stand to shop.

So I have one really, really, huge, ginormous pet peeve.  It is people who could care less if they are blocking and aisle with their cart sideways looking at the spaghetti—trying to decide whether to go with thin or thick noodles. They won’t look up from the shelf to see that you are trying to get through and they just happen to be in the way. No.  These people pay ZERO attention to the fact that you are in a hurry, you are on a mission, you have a job to do—and they just can’t seem to grasp that they are hogging the aisles.  Dontcha know??  They just can’t decide on Ragu or Prego!!  It just so happens to be the life altering decision they’ve been meaning to make—their whole lives!! 

AAARGH!!

(Maybe we shouldn’t have gotten me started on this? ) 

Yes, I’ve been one to say very politely, "excuse me” and/or push their cart gently out of the way, and for the most part these people have tuned me out to the point they didn’t realize that I could have run off with their whole basket of life altering choices.  On a busy Saturday, these are the ones who are so engrossed in their options that they create that shopping cart congestion in aisle 7 that would make a 5pm hazmat spill on a major interstate pale in comparison.

I digress.

It seems to be a weekly thing—normally it doesn’t get under my skin so—but I think the really long weekend—brought out the indecisive and put them right in my path!! How I made it home with my sanity—is a miracle in itself!!

I need a plane ticket to my island—ASAP!!  LOL!!

So what are your pet peeves? 

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Cheers,