Are you really in so much of a hurry?

This is a two-fer...two incidents in one blog!

Incident #1:

Today I was running errands. I went to Target and as I was pushing my cart up one of the main aisles, I passed a lady stopped in the middle of it checking her phone or a list or something. While some of you may think that my beef is with her stopping in the middle of the aisle (which, now that I think about it, is annoying). But it's not. On the side of the aisle I was walking, there was an employee stopped unloading a pallet of goods. I would have to go around him. I am fine with that. All of a sudden, I look to my left and see the woman who was previously stopped in the middle of the aisle speed walking towards me. It's as if she is trying to beat me around the guy unloading the goods. So to test out my theory, I walked faster. Sure enough, so did she. We were neck and neck all the way to the merging point when I backed off and let her go first. I suppose it's the least I could do since she was in such a hurry to get in front of me.

Incident #2:

The other day I was walking through the skyway downtown during lunch. As you may know, lunchtime downtown is busy. As I approached the end of one skyway, I could see the door into the next building starting to close. In the same spirit of selfishness as the woman at Target, the man walking in front of me scooted sideways through the closing door. I'm not sure if he didn't realize that it was busy and there were many other people in the skyway needing to get through the door, or if he was just in too much of a hurry to open it on his way through. Or maybe he didn't have the strength needed to push open the door. Who knows.

What I do know is that walking through the world as if you are the only person in existence doesn't help anyone. Not cool, guys.