The carts are pretty high anyway, and I am short, so sometimes hard to see around and over. Had a bunch of bulky stuff in the cart. Store was crowded.
I was nearing the end of the aisle, and there was a food sample table set up on my left side. I was going to the right. Big crowd around the table, carts in the way, but not to the right.
So I turn my cart to the right, and bash into a stroller that I could not see because---everything was crowded. Mom had left her toddler there unattended while she went for samples.
She came running up to me, yelling at me "HEY! LOOK OUT! YOU ALMOST HURT MY KID!"
I apologized, saying I hadn't seen him, parked right around the corner when I turned.
She put her hand up dismissively and yelled "NO! DON'T APOLOGIZE!" (she was asian, so it was really "APOROGIZE").
I was annoyed anyway--at myself for stupidly going during peak hours on a weekend, at the stupid people blocking the aisles--her yelling at me and then dismissing my apology set me off.
I yelled back at her, "NEXT TIME, DON'T BE AN ASSHOLE AND LEAVE YOUR KID ALONE IN A STOLLER WHERE PEOPLE PUSHING CARTS CAN'T SEE HIM!"
Area around me went silent, she looked a little shocked, and I stalked off. :)
Everytime I go back into that Costco and down the same aisle, I laugh.
You had an excellent closing remark “Next time....” Yes!!
She deserved it, with her Drama Queen, self righteousness.
I don’t think I would have been able to retaliate so quickly.
I was raised not to ‘make a scene’ in public, but sometimes, the ‘scene’ walks up to you, ready made!