[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

This will be our second season seeing the snowbirds return though I'm not sure last year really counted. We've noticed a marked increase in rudeness in the last couple of weeks; does it always get this way and do we get to enjoy another five months of this?

Just this week:

- Car coming through the Residents gate honked at a cart that had the audacity to pull into the neighborhood rather than crossing the road. The cart didn't impede the car, it was well into the diamond lane before the car reached it, but apparently not sitting and waiting for the car to pass was an offense.

No comment, I really can't visualize why the person would honk.

- Car swerving out of the Residents lane and coming through the open gate on the Visitors side without stopping honked at a cart stopped in the center area waiting for exiting cars to pass. Since the incoming car did not stop at the gate it's possible the cart was still part way in the lane when the car reached it which would have caused the car to have to actually slow down after it raced through the open gate.

If the gate is open, they would have stopped before passing through it, and once on the other side, they aren't required to stop. It sounds like he stopped - just in the wrong lane. But he did stop, and was doing what he was supposed to be doing. His honk was probably to urge the golf cart to hurry and get out of the way since the car driver had already done their job and it was their turn. When everyone takes their turn, traffic runs smoothly.

- Shopper in Publix trying to push my wife out of the way with their cart as I was looking at the turkey breasts. "I want one of those," seemed be the signal that her time had expired and she was required to move or risk being bumped.

I don't know why they'd push your WIFE out of the way while YOU were looking at turkey breasts, unless she was blocking everyone else from something. Is it possible that she had been just standing in front of something SHE wasn't trying to decide on, and not giving any indication that she was paying attention to someone standing there trying to get where she was? I mean, I totally would've said, loudly, "EXCUSE ME I'm trying to get over there" and wouldn't have tried to push her with my cart. But consider that other people might want to be where your wife was, and if she was oblivious - she'd have to accept that eventually someone is going to do or say something to nudge her along.

- Shopper exiting Publix making rude comment about me being stopped to load groceries. Not parked, actually sitting in the drivers seat with the vehicle in drive as groceries were actively being loaded but apparently I was inconveniencing them somehow.

As someone else said - Publix doesn't have a loading zone. The front curb of their store is for customers to move themselves, their shopping carts, wheelchairs, electric scooter-things that the store offers, in and out of the store. It is not for motor vehicles. It's possible you were blocking a wheelchair ramp, in which case they were absolutely right in saying something about it.

There are people in the store who are -paid- to get your groceries to their customers' cars in the parking lot. And they have electric scooters with baskets to help their less mobile customers get around. There is zero reason, whatsoever, for any car, truck, or van, to be stopped at the curb directly outside the store.