I'm a huge fan of the personal bubble. Unless you have been welcomed into said bubble, I expect you to stand back. I had the pleasure of an older woman (I would guess early 80's) invade my personal bubble yesterday while at the grocery store.
I was next in line to use the self checkout. While scanning my items the woman came up right behind me indicating that she wanted to use the lane next. Self checkouts work a little differently. You wait outside the rope and the next available register (of 4) is yours for the taking. So she not only jumped in front of a couple other people in line, she was literally on my heels. I could feel her breath on the back of my neck.
My first reaction is to turn around and give her a nasty look. Didn't work. So then I take a step back; onto her, "Pardon me", I say, "You're kinda in my way". Still nothing, she rocked back and forth with me while I stepped forward and back. Finally I gave the employee (the one who oversees the self checkout lanes) a look and she came to my rescue pointing out where the end of the line is and that she would have to back off and leave me alone. Her response was "Oh, well I wanted to see how this works".
By now I was done and well, the woman was older and this is just not a fight worth picking. I promptly went home, jumped in the shower, and washed her old lady* breath off my neck.
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