The Meerkat Archives: 30 Day Challenge – Day 3
Back in 2020 I was taking part in a challenge to post across the month of June. On the third day I wrote of my top three pet peeves, check them out below:
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I do not like being pestered when I’m on a lunch break. This would happen quite a lot at Staples, but then, I did kinda invite it, by being too nice – and by becoming part of the management team there.
Blocked Aisles. You know what I’m talking about. You go to walk down an aisle in a supermarket or store, and it’s blocked, by one or more trollies, being wheeled about by people who want to stop and have a lengthy chat. They then have the cheek to give you a funny look when you move their impeding, offending trolley out the way. On a related note, there is an uncanny situation that unfolds every single time I go into a supermarket – whatever it is I need, I can promise someone will be in my way, and they’ll dither for ages too.
Trolls – be they virulently aggressive, dishonest, cowardly – internet trolls annoy me. They are happy to dish out all kinds of remarks/comments/fallacies – but dare to give them a little of what they give? Contradict them? Oh that’s just not on…
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I think I was looking for stuff to say when I wrote this post, in order to fulfil the terms of the challenge. Then again, these are certainly three things I cannot stand. Lunch break interference is thankfully not as common, but there are still moments where it happens, usually on days where I lone-trade. It is inevitable that the moment I go to grab some lunch, customers will wander into the showroom. It doesn’t matter when I go to eat, they will somehow always choose that instance to arrive. With a previous colleague there was also a lot of interruption, which would drive me faintly mad.
The block aisle thing is certainly a bugbear. It isn’t always trollies, sometime it’s prams, and sometimes it’s near-feral spawn, running amok, ensuring they get under the feet of everyone desperately trying to grab what they need and get going. You can also be assured that if I need to get something from a specific location, someone will lazily stand right where I need to be, without a care in the world, absent-minded and ignorant of anyone else’s needs.
Internet trolls are simply a part of online life, though the same can certainly be said of life in general. Humans are capable of behavioural extremes, and you’ll get demonstrations of that, every single day. We’re a strange breed.
‘Kat Comments