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.

  • Can’t be as bad as my mum, she used to go up to people who looked like someone she knew and start talking to them. This happened on many occasion and was slightly embarrassing. 

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