The "Everyone's A Psycho But Me" Thread

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Kestra, you'd hate me then. There are people who work in the stupormarket that i hug!! I guess that makes me a hug whore. A hug whore! I love that!

Stupormarket...I love *that*. Especially since I work in one.

And you like hugs? Well hello there.

 

[Spot's Meow]

Wouldn't the stores save quite a lot of money by making the customers bagging their own goods? It's certainly not a problem were I come from, chaos after the register is extremly uncommon.

Well the baggers do more than just bag groceries. They bring the carts in from the parking lot, help people to their cars, mop the floors and clean up the aisles, and just help people in general. Basically they are the bitch of the store that have to run around doing everything at once for minimum wage.

Physical contact. The people that hug constantly, the guys that think it's okay to casually put their arm around me, the guy at the post office that is constantly grabbing my hands across the counter. I willingly hug my mom, my husband, and that's about it. I don't want other people touching me all the time!

I am the same way, I do not like people in my personal space. I am very affectionate with my boyfriend but I don't even like my parents to hug me. Thankfully most people seem to pick up on this immediately upon meeting me. I have one friend who is very touchy and hugs everyone but she does not go into my space which I appreciate. I didn't even have to ask! She gets really affectionate when she drinks but even then she doesn't do more than maybe touch my arm. I like it when people are observant of each others' personal boundaries.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

Physical contact. The people that hug constantly, the guys that think it's okay to casually put their arm around me, the guy at the post office that is constantly grabbing my hands across the counter. I willingly hug my mom, my husband, and that's about it. I don't want other people touching me all the time!

Hmmm, that is a little suspicious. The guy at the post office I mean, not you. I can imagine as a young woman you have to be really leery of guys who touch a little too freely.

I was once very uncomfortable with the idea of any physical contact, but for a different reason. I was very lonely when I was younger and did not have any intimate contact with the opposite sex. I guess I kind of adopted a total abstinence attitude where If I couldn't have real intimacy I was not going to allow myself any physical contact whatsoever even if it was just in friendship.

Today I am a little better having a girlfriend and all(although one of the first times we met I put her in tears because I refused to kiss her in public). I still am not a person that likes to be touched though.

 

[The Boy Who Cried Worf]

I'm not a patient person. You know who drives me crazy? The fuckers who can't bag their own groceries but wait for the cashier to bag them. I want to throttle those people. And it's not just old people that do that. Perfectly able bodied people do it all the time. (And i do give the oldsters a break, I would kill them painlessly while the others I would make suffer.)

I do this for two reasons. The main one is that they often don't want you to bag things yourself in the two stores I usually go to. This is connected to the second reason. I was a bagger for a little while and we weren't supposed to let other people bag for themselves, and when they did it always irritated me because they were too slow or getting in my way or just not doing it right.

I also don't bag my own groceries at the stores because that was the worst job of my life and bagging brings on painful flashbacks that make me want to stab someone.

"stab someone" !!!!

Where i live the stupormarkets don't have 'baggers'. If we did, i could understand people not bagging their own. But here, people bag their own. Unless they're royalty. Or think that no one else matters (like the people in line behind them.) GAH! Makes me crazy!

That's interesting because I always shop at Trader Joe's. When I lived in San Francisco it was pretty much expected that you bag your own groceries. When I moved down here to LA I was surprised how many cashiers were surprised that I would automatically start bagging my on groceries. They'd thank me like I was going out of my way. Anyway part of my OCD'ishness thinks I do it better than they would anyway.

 

[Miss Chicken]

This satellite picture of my neighbourhood show people what really pisses me off

To get to get to my local shopping centre I walked along the footpath shown with the red line. I reach the zebra crossing (I am the purple dot) and I cross to the traffic isle and then press the button of the traffic light so I can cross the other road to the car parkof the shopping centre.

The yellow and black arrows point to the road to Clarendonvale. This is a suburb in which many bogans (sort of Australia's equivalent of white trash) live. Cars going the direction of yellow arrow have to give way to traffic shown by the black arrow. Why, oh why, do some of the drivers going in the direction of the yellow arrow stop their cars on the zebra crossing as they wait for a break in the traffic? If they do it means I cannot cross, I have to wait for them to move and by the time I make it to the traffic island I miss the chance to cross at the lights and have to wait another 2 or three minutes for the lights to change again. Some of these dickheads do this even do this when it is pouring with rain.

 

[Marten]

Wouldn't the stores save quite a lot of money by making the customers bagging their own goods? It's certainly not a problem were I come from, chaos after the register is extremly uncommon.

Well the baggers do more than just bag groceries. They bring the carts in from the parking lot, help people to their cars, mop the floors and clean up the aisles, and just help people in general. Basically they are the bitch of the store that have to run around doing everything at once for minimum wage.

We have those as well, even though they get reasonably paid. I should perhaps ask one of the staff to bag my things, and see how much I would get shouted at.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Yep, that's a badly designed junction. Looks like planners in Tasmania hate pedestrians just as much as they do in the UK.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Stupormarket...I love *that*. Especially since I work in one.

And you like hugs? Well hello there.

I call it that because i would swear they pump in some gas that turns me into a walking zombie once i get in there. Like a stepford wife or something. I walk up and down those aisles like an idiot.

That's interesting because I always shop at Trader Joe's. When I lived in San Francisco it was pretty much expected that you bag your own groceries. When I moved down here to LA I was surprised how many cashiers were surprised that I would automatically start bagging my on groceries. They'd thank me like I was going out of my way. Anyway part of my OCD'ishness thinks I do it better than they would anyway.

This is very true. If I'm bagging my groceries and there are a LOT of them, the cashier will often bag some too. And the chips are always at the bottom of the bag, along with the bananas and eggs.

IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE!!!!!