Excuse me, ma'am, could you please get the hell out of my way?

This one goes out to my brothers (and sisters) in retail.

As you may know, I work in a grocery store stocking shelves. This means I can generally be found dragging around a cart full of boxes of food. This generally means I find lots of old ladies standing, staring aimlessly, at the food on one side of the aisle with their cart on the other... making an excellent road block for my customer-service oriented ass. I stop and wait patiently. Old lady will turn, look me in the eyes, and go back to deciding which brand of potato bread to buy.

Now, I expect people to get in my way every now and then. It's part of working in a store full of people. But damn, can you just step back for a few seconds so I can do my job? This happens at least once a night. All I want to do is put some bread on the shelf so I can move on to the next thing.

Really.

/rant