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itsapinkthing · Coach

Christmas Shopping Pet Peeves

Christine · Coach

That's ridiculous!

Mine is slow/annoying drivers.....ie, I have very little patience while ppl drive 2mph in the parking garage, looking for the perfect spot.....just go down 1 MORE LEVEL and you'll find tons of open spots! There's an elevator anyway, so it doesn't matter what level you're on, you'll do the same amount of walking!

There, I feel better. Thanks, itsapinkthing!

jj · Kate Spade

itsapinkthing, i can't believe they were going to CHARGE you for boxes!! that's so wrong.

my pet peeves include people who walk 5 across in the mall or sidewalk (usually really slowly) so you can't get past them or people who are walking along and then just stop without moving aside. it happened to me today, and i almost slammed into the guy.

tina242 · Kate Spade

Ooh I want to play since I was just at the mall....people who are oblivious to the people around them when the walk through the mall - either they walk really slowly or when they're coming from the other direction they walk directly toward you until the last minute, and then one of you dodges the other (??).

Christine · Coach

jj wrote:

itsapinkthing, i can't believe they were going to CHARGE you for boxes!! that's so wrong.
my pet peeves include people who walk 5 across in the mall or sidewalk (usually really slowly) so you can't get past them or people who are walking along and then just stop without moving aside. it happened to me today, and i almost slammed into the guy.

Ditto!

Bastet · Kate Spade

My pet peeves deal with parking garages. I can't stand the shoppers that drive like homicidal maniacs. People speed around the parking garage like the world will end if they don't get the one parking space they can see. Usually they almost run over a few people walking in the garage. I also can't stand idiots who can't park their huge-ass SUVs properly. I hate coming out of the mall and realizing that I will probably have to get into my car through the back of the trunk or the sun roof because 2 huge Hummers are on either side of me, with a set of wheels in my space.

Collette · Chanel

Oh man! Mine is, I hate when people get to the bottom of the escelator and just stop and cause a pile up of the people behind them.

bex · Chanel

oooo! christmas brings out all the bad shoppers!

I hate the slow drivers/bad parkers just as much as all of you guys... and sorry if this offends, but i can't stand that moms that just truck right on through (hitting people) with their big-ass strollers... its like they don't care how big they are and just cruise right on through... half the time the poor kid isn't even in it- its filled with shopping bags.

also can't stand the box deal itsapinkthing when stores say "we don't have any" or "we charge XYZ per box" i just smile sweetly and say "oh, i just bought at BR and they gave me lots of boxes for my presents, i think i'll just go back there..." RUDE! you are already making mad cash off me- just give me FREAKING BOXES!!!!!!!!!!!! grrrrrr

MissMee · Kate Spade

I hate it when people see me and my "big ass stroller" and either won't move or they just stop in place and make me go around them. They obviously have no idea how hard it is to push a double stroller around the teeny, miniscule aisles in overloaded stores. Or to just push them, period! I dare you - try it! It's hard!

Speaking of the latter, I hate it when stores pack everything in so tightly that I can't get my stroller through. Maybe they don't want people's icky, sticky kids in their precious store, but I have the right to be in there just like non-stroller pushers. Not that I wouldn't rather NOT have the stroller with me, but I certainly don't care if my stroller happens to knock crap off their crammed in shelves!

bumblebee · Coach

mine is stores that are permanently in disarray--like stuff everywhere, not put away, you can't find anything. particular chains are worse than others, ahem, robinsons may.

Lilykind · Hermes

bumblebee wrote:

particular chains are worse than others, ahem, robinsons may.

No kidding! I was just in there with my BF last weekend and I could not believe the mess it was in! Maybe this will change when they all become Macy's.

I think mine is defintely the slow walkers and the line-of-5 types. I'm a really fast walker, I know what stores I need to go into or that will interest me, and I do not want a stiletto-wearing person (or worse people) in my way walking at .00000001 mph. I am very efficient in malls and I want in and out.

Oh, and to the people at the Beverly Center most specifically (seeing as you have to go up at least 4 narrow escalators to be greeted with even more escalators), PLEASE do not just stand on the escalator like you have all the time in the world. Let me go ahead if you must remain on the escalator for all eternity and I promise not to hurt you.

luckylily · Gucci

Lilykind wrote:

bumblebee wrote: particular chains are worse than others, ahem, robinsons may. No kidding! I was just in there with my BF last weekend and I could not believe the mess it was in! Maybe this will change when they all become Macy's.

Don't count on it getting any better as a Macy's. Our Macy's are still a freaking dump. It stresses me out to be in there tripping over clothes, and I'm a slob!

TheLovelyLady71 · Hermes

GOOD ONE! I hate Christmas traffic!!! Having to wait AT LEAST 5 min. at a 4-way stop sign is INSANE!! And the crowds, people will just RUN YOU OVER, that's why I try to go WAYY before a few days before Christmas. And YES - people park ALL KINDS of ways during the holidays, on the lines, too close to your car - it's crazy. I had this ONE person, who parked THAT CLOSE to my car, I had to get in on the passenger side!!

-- Edited by TheLovelyLady71 at 18:56, 2005-12-02

Lilykind · Hermes

luckylily wrote:

Lilykind wrote: bumblebee wrote: particular chains are worse than others, ahem, robinsons may. No kidding! I was just in there with my BF last weekend and I could not believe the mess it was in! Maybe this will change when they all become Macy's. Don't count on it getting any better as a Macy's. Our Macy's are still a freaking dump. It stresses me out to be in there tripping over clothes, and I'm a slob!

LOL I'm holding out hope that we're getting nice Macys...some of ours sell Marc Jacobs, Casadei, Theory, Nanette Lepore, etc. etc. etc...but yeah I have to admit I'm not holding my breath. I hate it when stores are disorganized.

jen · Kate Spade

I work retail during Christmas so I hate everyone.

sfcaligirl · Dooney & Bourke

jen wrote:

I work retail during Christmas so I hate everyone.

heh heh. i hear ya, jen. back when i worked retail, i hated nearly everyone who walked in the door. oh god, and the christmas carols! enough to drive you in-sane.

doveanunu · Dooney & Bourke

I HATE when someone bumps into ME..and *I* apologize..and then they just give ME a rude look and walk away. WTH?! You bumped into me biatch!

subwolley · Kate Spade

doveanunu wrote:

I HATE when someone bumps into ME..and *I* apologize..and then they just give ME a rude look and walk away. WTH?! You bumped into me biatch!

Ditto!!

laken1 · Hermes

That there is no time that I can go in any store / mall that there aren't loads of people. Generally during the week there are times I can go anywhere I want with few people. At this time of the year people take off days to shop, and amateur shoppers are everywhere. ARRRGGHHHHH

Cortney1982 · Chanel

Oh yes, when there are a group of people talking in the middle of a major walking path. Get the hell out of the way!