[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

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


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.


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.


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.

Please see post #18. I was wrong; my eyes lied to me and clearly I passed that lie along in the original post. I am the entitled one, IATA. Thank you to those who have helped me see the reality of things.