Cart Rage

I am sick and tired of being shoved out of the way by negligent shoppers at the grocery store, actually at every grocery store in Athens. Treat your cart like it's a car folks. At least pretend that you want to move to one side of the aisle when you see another shopper coming. I don't understand why you need to push the buggy down the center then have your friend walk beside you and not move when you see someone coming the other way. Unless you can change the laws of physics and pass right through me, get the hell over. You can both fall into single file line and let me pass or at least recognize my existence as I swerve as far as possible to avoid a last second collision. I have lost track of how many times I have had to stop, move my buggy over, smile and say excuse me, and then get completely ignored. Yesterday, I had to stare a girl down to get her to say excuse me as her friend who was actually in the way just kept walking and forced me to veer over into a pile of snack cakes. Ridiculous. One of my other pet peeves is folks shopping together with two buggies. Is that really necessary? Inconsiderate shopping is a problem across racial lines so what gives? I’m working on a public service announcement to bring this affliction to light; meanwhile, I’m taking out a pelvis or uterus with my buggy next time someone gets in my way. God help me, I’m turning into one of them…