game First thing that comes to mind

[Animedragon]

Meals with family round the table.

 

[Forlorn]

21 hours ago, Sakura said:

Monopoly can get wild, for me Uno is the game I freak out on though, I should never be around Uno lmao

First thing that comes to mind is and holiday where I have to be around family when I think about high tension 

I never knew how to play Uno. I'm not really good at any games like that. Not even that one game where someone says a word and people write down what they think the definition is. Although I've apparently memorized the words in some other words' definitions to the letter. Why my memory is randomly selective I can only guess. Well, probably with one of my theories. ^^;

The first thing that comes to mind with meals with family round the table is family gatherings.

[Sakura]

Family reunions and picnics

[Zeref]

Picnics.. yogi bear lol.. 

[Sakura]

Picnic baskets and lots of fooddddd 

[Forlorn]

Bread baskets and buffets.

[Zeref]

Fresh baked bread in bakeries. 

[Forlorn]

Grocery stores.

[Sakura]

OLD PEOPLE THAT BLOCK THE AISLES AND JUST TALK AND LOOK RIGHT AT YOU AND KEEP TALKING AND DON'T MOVE AND YOU HAVE TO GO ROUND  Okay but that is like super annoying. Almost every time I go shopping on the weekends there will be old ladies just chatting it up in almost every other aisle and they block the entire aisle. They look right at you standing there waiting for them to move and they just stare at you and keep their conversation and don't even bother to move out of the way. Just rude. 

[Animedragon]

On a related note, my local supermarket has a lot of 'personal shoppers' (I think that's what they're called) these are the staff who go around making up the orders for mail order home deliveries. They all have these HUGE trolleys  and when two of them are in the same aisle they totally block it!  

[Zeref]

This all just reminded me why I don't like to go grocery shopping at all to begin with. I may be an issue for @Animedragon since I am one of these people who will order on an app with a personal shopper to have the food delivered to my house  I do not enjoy the crowds at the grocery store that seem to be there on the weekend which is when I would be going grocery shopping. 

[Animedragon]

I have to admit that when my parents were alive I did use online shopping, they were housebound so online shopping saved me having to give up a large chunk of Saturday morning doing the shopping.  We stopped using it when they put the minimum order to qualify for free delivery up to a level that even with three of us we couldn't get the order value up to the minimum spend.  Now I'm retired I shop mid-week, but the shop can still be crowded.

 My dislike of crowds comes from spending many years working in central London and travelling in overcrowded commuter trains each day.  I got used to it, but it wasn't fun.

[efaardvark]

22 hours ago, Sakura said:

OLD PEOPLE THAT BLOCK THE AISLES AND JUST TALK AND LOOK RIGHT AT YOU AND KEEP TALKING AND DON'T MOVE AND YOU HAVE TO GO ROUND  Okay but that is like super annoying. Almost every time I go shopping on the weekends there will be old ladies just chatting it up in almost every other aisle and they block the entire aisle. They look right at you standing there waiting for them to move and they just stare at you and keep their conversation and don't even bother to move out of the way. Just rude. 

When that happens I just say "EXCUSE ME" loud enough to break into their conversation and make everybody else in the aisle look.  Usually they get the hint.  If they still don't move then I politely but firmly move their cart myself.  Sometimes I get looks from the aisle-blockers at that point but I'm large enough (5'10"/~180cm) that that's as far as it goes.  (It isn't like I get mad or shove their cart halfway down the aisle either.  I just move it enough that it doesn't block the traffic pattern and I and others can get by.)

It can get awkward if you meet them again in the next isle over though.

[Forlorn]

I always feel like doing that, but I've always been introverted, and still am at my age, so I just wait until mom tells me where to go with the shopping cart because I don't want to get in anyone's way. It's funny being nice when not many people repay the favor though.

[Sakura]

1 hour ago, efaardvark said:

When that happens I just say "EXCUSE ME" loud enough to break into their conversation and make everybody else in the aisle look.  Usually they get the hint.  If they still don't move then I politely but firmly move their cart myself.  Sometimes I get looks from the aisle-blockers at that point but I'm large enough (5'10"/~180cm) that that's as far as it goes.  (It isn't like I get mad or shove their cart halfway down the aisle either.  I just move it enough that it doesn't block the traffic pattern and I and others can get by.)

It can get awkward if you meet them again in the next isle over though.

I usually say excuse me but a lot of times I get ignored, I'm not a very loud person lol and I guess I get too intimated to move the carts of people that are older than me because it would seem like I was just being some rude millennial. I suppose I shouldn't care so much about it when I'm clearly not the one being rude. I never thought grocery stores are for standing around chatting for an hour in one place. 

7 minutes ago, Forlorn said:

I always feel like doing that, but I've always been introverted, and still am at my age, so I just wait until mom tells me where to go with the shopping cart because I don't want to get in anyone's way. It's funny being nice when not many people repay the favor though.

Yeah I think I'm about the same way, introverted I mean. I feel like I am too nice to people sometimes when I shouldn't be. 

[Forlorn]

3 hours ago, Sakura said:

I usually say excuse me but a lot of times I get ignored, I'm not a very loud person lol and I guess I get too intimated to move the carts of people that are older than me because it would seem like I was just being some rude millennial. I suppose I shouldn't care so much about it when I'm clearly not the one being rude. I never thought grocery stores are for standing around chatting for an hour in one place. 

Yeah I think I'm about the same way, introverted I mean. I feel like I am too nice to people sometimes when I shouldn't be. 

Right? Even when I don't want to be nice, I end up being nice. It's insanely frustrating. I do get sick of internalizing things, but I really don't know how to stop. No one ever taught or showed me a better way of coping.

[efaardvark]

5 hours ago, Sakura said:

5 hours ago, Forlorn said:

I always feel like doing that, but I've always been introverted, and still am at my age, so I just wait until mom tells me where to go with the shopping cart because I don't want to get in anyone's way. It's funny being nice when not many people repay the favor though.

Yeah I think I'm about the same way, introverted I mean. I feel like I am too nice to people sometimes when I shouldn't be. 

I used to be that way when I was younger too but now I'm old enough to realize that some people are just inconsiderate and need a kick in the pants.  It seems like people used to be more considerate and that sort of thing didn't happen so often too, though maybe that's a bit of wishing for "the good old days".

[Animedragon]

6 hours ago, Sakura said:

I usually say excuse me but a lot of times I get ignored, I'm not a very loud person lol and I guess I get too intimated to move the carts of people that are older than me because it would seem like I was just being some rude millennial.

As another quiet person I usually get ignored as well and if I do move their carts out of the way I get the "how dare you touch my cart you rude young person" look, which is amusing because as  I now receive my state pension I'm officially an 'old person', which means I'm probably older than the aisle-blocker.

[Zeref]

18 hours ago, Sakura said:

I usually say excuse me but a lot of times I get ignored, I'm not a very loud person lol and I guess I get too intimated to move the carts of people that are older than me because it would seem like I was just being some rude millennial. I suppose I shouldn't care so much about it when I'm clearly not the one being rude. I never thought grocery stores are for standing around chatting for an hour in one place. 

Yeah I think I'm about the same way, introverted I mean. I feel like I am too nice to people sometimes when I shouldn't be. 

Don't worry as I am an extrovert who doesn't mind telling these people to move or the looks they give  Most introverted people as yourself get adopted by an extrovert and we will do the loud things for you when we are around. 

From what I can tell from reading the last posts most of us all can agree grocery shopping is a pain in the neck.

[Forlorn]

15 hours ago, efaardvark said:

I used to be that way when I was younger too but now I'm old enough to realize that some people are just inconsiderate and need a kick in the pants.  It seems like people used to be more considerate and that sort of thing didn't happen so often too, though maybe that's a bit of wishing for "the good old days".

The only good old days there were for me were when my big sister was still with us. Just seems like everything fell apart after she passed away. I know though that people aren't nice and the world isn't nice, but I am the way I am I guess. I've always had difficulty changing anything about myself. I can't even remember as far back as that goes though. 

2 hours ago, Zeref said:

Don't worry as I am an extrovert who doesn't mind telling these people to move or the looks they give  Most introverted people as yourself get adopted by an extrovert and we will do the loud things for you when we are around. 

From what I can tell from reading the last posts most of us all can agree grocery shopping is a pain in the neck.

Big sis' was the extrovert for me. ^^ It was pretty cool to watch. She'd always look out for me like that. Sometimes it feels like she still is, too. Yeah though, when mom asks me to tag along with her when we need groceries it's one of my least favorite times to go with her, but I refuse to let mom go by herself because if she did she'd probably end up in a conflict. She's not afraid to speak her mind to rude people like that, so I worry (probably even over-worry) about her when she goes somewhere by herself. I don't want her getting herself into any trouble because someone else was a jerk to her. I'm 6'3" and 260lbs so I'd like to think I'm a deterrent to keep rude people from saying anything directly to mom. It might seem weird for someone my size to be introverted, but no matter how hard I try I can't seem to change that.

[efaardvark]

18 hours ago, Animedragon said:

As another quiet person I usually get ignored as well and if I do move their carts out of the way I get the "how dare you touch my cart you rude young person" look, which is amusing because as  I now receive my state pension I'm officially an 'old person', which means I'm probably older than the aisle-blocker.

Same here.  I have to go out of my comfort zone to get loud, or even interact with new or unfamiliar people.  I can do it when I have to but it has taken me years of self-training to get to this point.  I'm technically still "fifty-something" but I'll be 60 in Sept. which I'm pretty sure puts me -><- this close to "old person" territory too.

[Sakura]

I don't like interacting with people I don't know at all. Usually at the grocery store or places that are crowded/loud I tend to listen to my music in my headphones. I have an okay ability to make small talk and conversation with people that I don't know but I reallllly don't like to. 

8 hours ago, Zeref said:

Don't worry as I am an extrovert who doesn't mind telling these people to move or the looks they give  Most introverted people as yourself get adopted by an extrovert and we will do the loud things for you when we are around. 

From what I can tell from reading the last posts most of us all can agree grocery shopping is a pain in the neck.

Gotta say though I definitely agree with that XD I always end up with friends that are extroverted that do all the yelling for me so I'm glad for that. 

[Animedragon]

13 hours ago, Zeref said:

From what I can tell from reading the last posts most of us all can agree grocery shopping is a pain in the neck.

And reading that comment reminds me that I need to stop reading AF and go do some grocery shopping, if I don't I'm going to have some very odd meals this week.

[Zeref]

Odd meals just makes me think of what @Sakura cooks and tries to pass off as a good dinner to me 
I often have odd meals myself though when I don't feel like making anything but they are usually leftovers.

[Animedragon]

When my father was in hospital they served up some rather odd meals. My mother was usually visited at mealtimes and occasionally I did as well and we had fun trying to work out exactly what each item on the plate was supposed to be.