Why do so many young mothers stop with buggies and kids running wild to gossip in doorways and aisles?
Why do so many young men shopping alone seem to go into a trance at the fast food counters?
Why do so many young women stop with their trolleys across the aisle while gazing into the freezers on the opposite side?
It isn't just older people - there is always a whole section of the populace locked in their own little world who have no conception of the "rules of the road" when using the supermarket.
I theorise that the older you get the less aware you get. This may explain the propensity for old people to slowly shuffle along the busiest high streets, and their inability to move when you want to reach for the tinned tomatoes.
you mean like young kids on park benches, older ones on street corners or the ones that stand outside the anywhere and shout (talk) to one another or pull up in there cars blocking the road.
Probably for the same reason that two mothers with prams take up the whole of the pavement - and people stop dead infront of you to answer their mobile phones and then glare at you when you bump into them cos you weren't expecting them to stop...!