Etiquette at the Bins and Maybe You're the Asshole

 I can not gush enough about how much I love the bins! Most the time I have a great time sorting, sifting, and digging through every thing to find the hidden treasure. On the most part everyone is very cool. Helping each other find matches to shoes, or if someone is collecting a certain set of items from the bin most people are courteous enough if they run across the item they will hand it over to the person. For example, one guy was grabbing all these medical items his father. I knew there was a box of things in the next bin over so I handed it to him.

If two of us are reaching for the same item it is not unusual for both of us to step back and say "go ahead". During the covid pandemic the Bins were closed for several months. I thought I was going to DIE because I was jonesing so much to dig. I missed it so much. When it reopened in mid May (maybe) they had very strick rules about wearing masks and social distancing. The bins were cut in half to avoid too much crowding around each other. The carts were sanitized. They may have limited the amount of people allowed inside but I do not remember that  being an issue.

Now fast forward. We're still wearing masks but the bins are all in place and people are swarming the bins again. 

I have found myself being really bitchy about it. I like social distancing. I like not having someone reaching over me to grab something that is my area of scoping out. People do it all the time, some nicer than others.

I HATE people being overly aggressive. I HATE people tossing the things that do ot interest them to get at something that does. They toss indiscriminately with little regard to those around them or the items they are destroying in their destructive path. There are several of them, and they are an irritant to me like non other. And as I grow older and more bold and don't give a SHIT what othrs think about me I have found myself calling them out. Yesterday one big guy was very aggressive and leaned over me and bgrabbed two belt buckles that were right in front of me that I would have picked up if given the chance.

"Hey social distance!!" I chided him

"You're wearing a mask, you're safe enough"

"The other part is to not crowd into each others space!"

"You must be a Democrat" he sneered

"you must be an asshole" I shot back.

"Yes, I am" he said and retreated else where.

I have never been like this before. I have given people a piece of my mind several times now. I have muttered "Social distance" a lot of times. I almost threw a shoe at someone once. I worry that i am racist as I have had two incidents with the immigrants at the shoe bin. They ignore me. 

I don't like the person I am when I feel my space, my area I am digging through is being infringed upon by some thoughtless bin digger. I pray to give me patience and not make me the asshole.

What was it Raylan said, "if you run into an asshole then you have run into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, maybe you're the asshole".

Wise Words.