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During my last family trip, I observed a noticeable amount of instances where saying \u2018excuse me\u2019 to people, resulted in absolutely no response at all.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like I\u2019m taking any off-path routes to get from point A to B to C, I\u2019m talking about very general, public and heavy-traffic walkways or paths, where people clog up traffic, I want to get around them, and they have the space to move elsewhere, but for whatever selfish reason, they exist in the way.<\/span><\/p>\n I say excuse me, in a normal, neutral tone, and in some instances, people glanced over at me, and in other either people pretended like they couldn\u2019t hear me, or proceeded to completely no-sell the fuck out of me.\u00a0 It\u2019s at this point, I say excuse me in a louder, more insistent tone and this usually does the trick to get them to acknowledge my existence, and when I usually just proceed to move at them, will they actually move.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not like I was walking by myself in most cases, and could just as alternatively take longer, wider routes to avoid being close to people in the first place.\u00a0 In most of these cases, I\u2019m wheeling a stroller, luggage, or, in a rush carrying a toddler that needs to go to the bathroom, but for whatever reason it is, it just felt like a conspicuously high number of instances where it just seems like people have dropped common courtesy of moving the fuck out of the way when people say excuse me.<\/span><\/p>\n And when I have to repeat myself, louder and more hostile sounding, all these cocksuckers look at me like I\u2019m the asshole for trying to get somewhere, where they\u2019re the conceited selfish shitheads blocking walkways and thinking their inane conversations or needs are higher priority than others.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not lost on me that this is sounding like an old man yelling at the sky kind of rant, but what\u2019s really wrong with hoping that people have common decency to continue honoring the simple and basic human interaction of moving out of the way when someone says excuse me?\u00a0 It\u2019s not like I\u2019m barreling through with the intention of initiating contact and shoving people out of the way, I\u2019m simply alerting people that I need to get around them, and to pardon any potential contact and give them a heads up to move if they can.\u00a0 Fuck me, right??<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During my last family trip, I observed a noticeable amount of instances where saying \u2018excuse me\u2019 to people, resulted in absolutely no response at all.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not like I\u2019m taking any off-path routes to get from point A to B to C, I\u2019m talking about very general, public and heavy-traffic walkways or paths, where … Continue reading Does nobody move for \u2018excuse me\u2019 anymore?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,83,105,65,166,190,49],"class_list":["post-49780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-observations","tag-rage","tag-travel","tag-vacation","tag-white-people","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49782,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49780\/revisions\/49782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}