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We went grocery shopping later in the day Sunday trying to avoid the mass crowds. Besides being diabetic, I have a touch of claustrophobia that sometimes turns into panic attacks. (You freeze in place, can't think straight, heart starts racing, short of breath, that kind of thing.)

Despite going later, there were still a few of "those people" out there that make one pause.
These are the kind of people that despite having places like Walmart or Target where you can pretty much get everything in one location instead of fighting for whatever is left in a shipment of shoes to some foreign country market, these people have either all come from one of these foreign countries or they were NEVER taught any manners and will literally fight you or shove you out of the way while you are shopping or looking at something. These kinds of people usually also fall in the category of lane hogging (and they KNOW you are standing there).

That being said, I was diggin through my purse for yet - the obvious - that ellusive cell phone, and asked my son to wait a minute while I tried to park my cart at the end cap of an aisle that had numerous shelves FULL of the same product : "Identity Theft Protection Kit for Dummies".
It was all paper shredders. (yes, all with that title on the box). You'd think not a high commodity item no less, unlike say - milk or eggs or BEER!

Sure enough, while I am digging in my purse, here comes this woman who at first seemed to be making a beeline for the registers until she saw me parked there, then abruptly stopped, and had an almost absolute cow trying to get to these shredders to "see them". (I am like all of 5 feet tall, and I am positive she could see three shelves of these things ABOVE my head). She COULD have accessed them from either side of me because it WAS and end-cap mind you.
She got very impatient and then rude, then after we moved out of her way (me still digging in purse), she huffed and buzzed off again to the registers.

At that moment, I finally figured it out!
The reason these types of people do this is because they are AFRAID they will miss out on something! Oh heaven forbid! The horrors!

I guess I will always be that person who misses out- because if you are the one stopped in an aisle to look at something or you are busy doing something and DUH I can see that, I will come back to that aisle later (if I don't forget). I am not in THAT a big hurry to obsess over that particular item, and chances are, I probably didn't need it anyway or need it that bad that I had to be rude or pushy.

Pretty bad when that day comes when we may have to bring tasers with us when we go shopping! LOL!

Look out! That woman's got the last coffee creamer! Let's get her now!!!!!