My Single Mom Life

I was reading Karen's blog this morning about how she goes shopping with her mom but instead of being cranky like everyone else in the store, she just smiled and said Merry Christmas to everyone.
I love people like that.
But anyway, I want to know where manners have gone.
Sure, I'm a foul mouthed loud type person but only if you piss me off first.
How do you piss me off when shopping?
When you slam your cart into me or one of my kids, or elbow us out of the way, or just reach above or around me while shopping.
What happened to excuse me?

The other day for instance, we were at the store and I had stopped near the entrance to glance at the sale flier but not blocking it in anyway, I was actually standing next to the huge Christmas display they have.
There was more than enough room to get around me because several people already had, but this old lady stood behind me hemming and hawing.
I ignored it for a minute.
Do you hear something that sounds like throat clearing? I don't.
She kept this up and then finally rammed my ass with her cart.
There was at least 8 feet to go around me. The entrance display to Publix is big but they make sure there's plenty of room around it on both sides.
I turned around and said excuse me?
She glared at me.
I said again, excuse me.
She continued to stare.
The boys started getting that oh god mom please don't look on their faces but ya know what? This is an old woman, someone who I know was raised in the time when you said please and thank you and excuse me. I know people were taught manners and just because you're 90 doesn't give you the right to just ignore proper human interaction and hit people.

She continued to stare and I continued to say excuse me.
She started getting mad.
She went to ram me with her cart again and I stopped it with my hand and said can you say excuse me? Can you go around? Is there a problem with asking someone to please get out of your way? Am I blocking your view of the Christmas piano display and you'd like to see it? Then say excuse me or pardon me or could you please move ma'am and I will be happy to but instead you've chosen to be rude and make guterl throat noises and then take the ultimate step in trying to get your way and hitting me with your cart. This is unacceptable behavior from anyone and it's especially disturbing coming from someone of your age who should know so much better and I am willing to bet that you would expect me and my kids to say please and excuse me if we needed to get around you.
She shot me the look of death and then spun her cart around and went around me.
Like how hard was that?
There was plenty of room obviously because she just did it, but apparently, she just felt like throwing her age and her cart around.

I don't tolerate rudeness at all. Karen has great spirit and handles things so humorously but rudeness bothers me to no end.
I will say merry Christmas and happy holidays and talk with complete strangers at the deli about silly stuff but don't be rude to me because when you are, you will get a mouth full back.
Maybe talking back is rude too but I'm tired of people being rude like this and getting away with it and maybe if we remind people that simple things like manners will make everyone's day go better, the rude people would stop.
Just smiling at people is passive aggressive in my opinion. It's like saying fuck you without saying it. It's not teaching those people to not be rude, it's just letting them get away with it.

Things to do today:
Fold last load of laundry
Finish dishes
Vac the floors again
do a once over of the bathroom

Later days.