I got the “you’re welcome” today

I was in a busy shop earlier trying to get out of the way of shoppers who seem to want the item on the shelf right where I’m standing as usual so I head up to the top of the isle to try exit it and give others and myself room when a woman on my left says “you’re welcome” as I pass her. I’ll be honest I didn’t even see her as I was focusing on getting away from others as quickly as possible, she may as well have been part of a shelf for all I knew but it’s the passive aggressiveness that gets me, why resort to this tactic? Was she having a bad day? Did she not think for one second “he didn’t see me?”. I felt annoyed myself so just ignored her and carried on, next time am I meant to bow down at the feet of someone who gives me some extra room in a shopping isle?. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this aggression aimed at me for not knowing someone had moved out the way for me, last time it was a bloke who was even angrier than the lady today. 

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  • I've had this sort of thing before too and it feels hurtful and confusing. I had a similar thing with a woman a couple of months ago when she said hello to me and I didn't hear her, then she said very loudly 'How rude', I asked her if she was talking to me and she was and said that she'd said hello and I'd ignoed her, she didn't seem to accept that I genuinely hadn't heard her and was off in a world of my own, which she also found rude. You just can't win with some people, I was in a little world of my own, which excluded her and she couldn't deal with not being the centre of everyones universe, I suspect the  woman you encountered was the same.

  • These days I don't know if a voice nearby is addressing me. Several times I have thought someone was speaking to me and then realized they were talking on the phone.

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