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Grumpy old people have no peripheral vision and after all their years of life on earth you'd think they'd have finally grown eyes in the backs of their heads. How useful would that be?
they probably all suffer hearing loss as well.
like small children they have no awareness of people around them.

i remind myself this as i am stuck in a supermarket behind an elderly couple walking v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y and w-i-d-e-l-y down a narrow aisle.
they seem oblivious that i'm behind, and it seems intentionally belligerent and grumpy of them not to step aside and let me pass.
they are probably not belligerent; they are probably perfectly nice folk.
But they really ARE oblivious.
so i accept their pace and slow down too.
and notice things i normally rush past and ignore - foodstuffs i've been oblivious to.

i end up at the checkout with strange food that will probably sit in my cupboard for years.
producers are now making money from grumpy-old-people TV series.
so supermarkets should cash-in on this too and start hiring grumpy old couples.
they're the human equivalent of those unsteerable shopping trolleys.