Irks Me

DISCLAIMER: This is my personal opinion of things around here. You don't like it, you don't have to read it. You disagree, that's fine, but don't attack me. Mmmkay? Thanks :)

I just got back from a shopping trip across the street at the department store. And again, this 30-minute trip reinforced my intense dislike of shopping in Korea. My biggest irk is the impatience of everyone around me. Yes, old lady and young woman, I am quite clearly in line in front of you. And I was clearly here before you. I'm not just standing at the checkout line for the fun of it. So quit trying to nudge your way past me in line. And when they are wrapping up my purchase, DON'T set your stuff on the counter before I've even paid. I really don't think anyone is going to try and sneak their stuff in front of yours.

The lack of lines around here really bugs me too. Even when they have the machines where you can go and take a number, people still try to sneak in without a number. This happens at the bank so much.

I was coming back to my apartment and the elevator got to my floor. The doors opened, and there was a man standing right in front of the elevator doors, trying to get on even before I got off. This happens way too often here as well. People, it would really go a lot faster if you let all the people off the elevator first before you tried to get on. Even while I tried to go around him to get off the freakin' elevator, he was moving his way in like it was going to kill him to wait an extra two seconds for me to get out.

This whole impatience thing is out of hand. Even when we are going to the movie theater and we take the elevator up, we'll be the first ones waiting for the elevator. More people show up for the elevator, and instead of making some sort of organized line to let the people who were waiting first get on the elevator first, there is a mad rush to get on the elevator. There are times when I have to literally park myself in front of the doors in order to get on the stupid elevator so I'm not left last--which has happened before. One time, my naive self thought it would be an organized thing where the first people waiting would be the first on. I was one of those first people in line. The elevator came, the mad rush began, and before I could even take a step towards the elevator, the doors closed and I was forced to wait until the next one came. Unfortunately, now I'm forced to be one of "those" rude people from time to time.

This is how Korea makes me feel sometimes.
Source: Angry Me

Before, it was something I had to deal with just because it wasn't ever going to change. But now, it makes me nervous as far as the safety of the little guy in my belly. Because those mad rushes aren't organized. Sometimes, they are a full-out push-fest, and because of my lack of height, I end up getting pushed around more than others.

Times like today, it really makes me excited to go back home (even if just for a few months).