Personal space. Strangers shouldn't invade it. I was in the bank line, and this woman (who would have been attractive ten years ago), was a little too close to me. Now my personal space is about a foot and a half. That's a decent space between two people. Getting inside that annoys me to no end. This woman bumped into me just moving around. But the thing is that if you can hear someone breath without super-hearing, they are too close. I should have had Goldsboro's Finest in front of me arrest her for tresspassing.
Does this bother anyone else?
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Posted by Coddman (Member # 10) on :
GAH! People must DIE! *Takes his Cavalier to the 'lotta them* Take THAT.
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
I can empathize. I too have a rather neuroticly large personal zone. But banks don't bother me so much as the lines at Taco Bell.
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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :
Having grown up in crowded cities, lack of personal space doesn't really bother me in public. At home, however, that's a different story.
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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
This woman was breaching personal space and getting into intimate space. Please, not at the bank.
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Try letting your head roll back, and mumbling "Yes Master, I'll make them pay". If all else fails, Fart!
(Al Yankovic is playing on the radio right now)
If it's a nice place, and you want to continue to be welcome, try turning around to face he, Lick your lips, move your eyebrows up and down.
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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :
My personal space is EXTREMELY important to me, and only the people I love are allowed to get really close. *LOL*... especially at home.. my room is my own little private haven and I HATE when people just walk in.
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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :
heh. oh yes...personal space...quite easily violated. these past couple of nerveracking days i think i was violating my OWN personal space. *L* bet you never though *that* was possible. *L*
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
*tries really, really hard to make the least of Weyoun's comments... but fails...*
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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
sounds to me like her fingers went south--but I could be wrong, and most likely are.
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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :
*LOL* *slaps her forehead* NO!!!! Geeeeez...that's not what i meant. :P me and my big mouth. *L* shoulda stayed shut up. what i MEANT was that i had wanted to be SO alone, that i was trying to escape my own self, and couldn't.
for crying out loud. i think i'm going to have to start SCREENING my posts for innuendos like that before i click send :P pleh.
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Screening for innuendo is futile. It will be found and brought to attention.
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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :
Personal space is very important, especially to us clausrophobites. If anyone gets within 3 or 4 feet, I freak. Once I had this lady at work poke me right in the side, which is a hot spot for many people. I had to keep from slugging her right in front of the whole store.
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Posted by HMS White Star (Member # 174) on :
No kidding I discovered that I loved personal space in math class in an auditoriam, that had seventy people that held exactly seventy people that gave you a Total of two inchs of personal space, I dropped that class within a week.
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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :
Sorry Jedi. I thought my phrase was very obscure. I doubt it is your nature to indulge in such activities.
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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :
pleh. dont' worry about it, cargile. its not the first time i've said something that could be easily interpreted the wrong way...the last time it was that awful was when i was 15, though. *L*
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Just don't suddenly grab me from behind. At least, not if you ENJOY having the full use of both arms.
Addendum: First Of Two's 7th Law: Innuendo will always be found. Where not found, it will be invented.
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