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I do that! I probably leave my cart in 5 locations on a regular basis and run around the area getting what I need when Costco (or even grocery store) is super busy. It's navigating the cart through all the people that is the pain. I have to mentally go to my happy place before going to Costco on a busy day, or I will get aggro, and that mainly hurts myself. I PLAN on parking in the farthest location because there will be no parking, I PLAN on being 10th in line because all lines will be full, and then laugh at how miserable it is, make sympathetic eye contact with other shoppers, try and do something helpful for someone else, etc.
OMG I do this 1000% too, all of it.
On my walk from the remote parking area to the store I usually look for someone struggling to get a heavy item in the car and help. Things like that set me up for a zen shopping experience.
Funny thing happened last time I went to Costco. It was the worst possible time/day: Saturday afternoon before Thanksgiving. I did my usual park the cart remotely thing. I'm just ambling around with a couple items in hand, on my way back to my cart and a stranger says to me, "she was just moving it to get by no need to make a face about it!" I literally had no idea what he meant and said so. Somehow he "saw" a face I made and thought it was in response to his wife moving someone's cart. I even said, "my cart's way over there," but he just seemed to want to make a point. Ommmmm.....
Try walking anywhere on a busy sidewalk or in a store in Europe. Like ants. No sticking to one side, just go where you please and I found the people very rude. If they bumped into you, they just kept on going.
What amazes me about Oriental people is how they dart around in crowds. We were in a MLS that had many Chinese from the US and Canada. Getting caught in a crowd of them at convention was truly a walk on the wild side.
That's Asian people. Oriental are for objects, not people.
But I do concur that Chinese folks often walk any which way around unless they have structured paths explicitly directing one to walk a certain direction.
That's Asian people. Oriental are for objects, not people.
But I do concur that Chinese folks often walk any which way around unless they have structured paths explicitly directing one to walk a certain direction.
This is offensive either way - this issue is not exclusive to one group.
I was taught that and I've more than once hit a local mall which had some brand shops and walking along on the right, I have had people run smack into me and I have hit many with my shoulder and kept walking. If they won't pay attention to their walking to avoid, I'd just as well teach them a hard lesson in watching where you walk.....
This is offensive either way - this issue is not exclusive to one group.
No, it's not, but I suspect the poster was referring to the fact that some Asian people--particularly Chinese people and particularly IN CHINA do not have any concept of walking on one side or another or even standing in line. It is just not part of their culture. If you were on the sidewalk in Beijing walking slower than someone who wanted to get past you, they would just shove you out of the way and keep walking.
Same with the idea of standing in line. My daughter was traveling in the Sichuan Province when she lived there Everyone had a ticket, and every ticket had an assigned seat number, and still, when the bus came, they shoved and elbowed and knocked one another out of the way to get on the bus first.
The problem is when they come to other places and do that. I have seen it in NYC. They are not being rude. They just don't know that the western world goes by these social rules.
What amazes me about Oriental people is how they dart around in crowds. We were in a MLS that had many Chinese from the US and Canada. Getting caught in a crowd of them at convention was truly a walk on the wild side.
"Oriental people"?
It's no longer 1962, that's a dated and offensive description.
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