If this makes me odd, then it does. But I have to get something off my chest about grocery store etiquette. If you feel the same way, please let me know. That way, I'm not standing alone by myself.

 When you go to the grocery store, does it ever amaze you how people truly live in their own world? Honestly, it baffles me. It's like common sense and manners go right out the door. For example:

 (1) The person who abandons their grocery cart in the middle of the aisle to either look at something near-by or even half way down that aisle. They don't pull it off to the side so it runs close (and parallel) with a shelf. They just leave it right in the middle, for either people to either navigate around or push out of the way. THEN if you do push it out of the way, they look at look as if you have committed some mortal sin. Well, if they were around to talk to I would ask them or say "excuse me". Seeing as their cart is in Sioux Falls and they are (seemingly) in Harrisburg, I figure it's no foul to move it. Maybe I'm wrong.

 (2) When you're at the meat counter and people jockey for position so when the butcher says "next" they can be helped, whether they were actually 'next' or not. Why do some people have a sense of entitlement that they can obviously see people are waiting, and they cut in the line anyway? If this ever happens to you I hope you stand up for yourself and say "Actually I was next". It's just such a low thing to do. Wait your turn. If you're in a hurry, you should have planned your day better. Don't be rude and cut someone off.

 (3) How about the people who park RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STORE, turn their engines off and wait for whoever went inside. This drives me nuts. Signs are blazing "Fire Lane" and yet this person not only parks, but shuts the car off and waits for as long as it takes. If Mandy ever runs into the store, I either drive around the parking lot or position myself in a parking spot where I can see her walk out THEN I go and pick her up. I don't huddle down in the road like a bump on a log and force people to drive around me. This is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. And finally.....

 (4) People who take grocery carts out to their car, unload the cart, then leave the cart in another parking stall for someone else to deal with. Really? Do your legs hurt that bad? Are the "Cart Return" areas in the parking lot that hard to spot? Truly, I think this is so rude and it bothers me so much that if I see someone do it, and I have the time, I will go ahead and return the cart myself. Why are people like this? Why do some people think the world is only theirs and to heck with everyone else? Again, if you use the cart, put it away. These are lessons we learned when we were children. Everything in it's place. If you get something out, put it away!

 Whew. I have been waiting for the opportunity to get that off of my chest. Thanks for taking the time to read through it. Hopefully, I'm not alone in feeling like this.

 Quote Of The Day: "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." Oscar Wilde

 This Day In History: Rock n roll star Elvis Presley joined the US Army for two years on this date, March 24, 1958.

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