This keeps happening to me recently and I’m not sure if I’m imagining it or if it’s a “thing”. Walking round big chain supermarket. It’s fairly quiet so I’m in no ones way, just minding my own business, grabbing a basket worth of shopping on my way home from work.
All of a sudden, other customers descend on me like relentless predators. Following me around, stopping when I stop, needing to look at the same obscure item I’m looking at, getting in my way and not letting me look at whatever it is. If I eventually give up trying to look and walk over to something else, I will be followed again. They will stand right behind me, bash into me with trolleys and generally constantly bother me all the way around the shop.
Yesterday one man was walking so closely behind me that when I turned around and started walking in the opposite direction because I’d forgotten something, he seemed genuinely disappointed with a look as if to say “Hey, where are you going? I was following you!”
I MUST be imagining it, right? Does anyone else feel ambushed during their supermarket visits? Or in other everyday situations? AIBU?!
Disclaimer - I’m not famous and the contents of my basket aren’t that exciting either!