Thursday, January 18, 2007

Too close

While walking into the bank to cash my check, I followed in two guys. The first guy in line was helped immediately, the second guy stood in line for the next available teller. The guy and me were the only ones in line. I stayed behind him a good two or three feet. I hate standing on top of people when there is plenty of room to spread out.

To speed up the process when I actually got to a teller window, I took my check out of the envelope to detach it from the check stub. When I finished, I put my envelope in my back pocket and that is when a line of people were approaching me. To get away from these people I stepped forward. When I did that, the woman who was behind me did as well. The woman behind me was now standing about two inches away from me. The guy who was ahead of me was called down to the next teller, I moved forward toward the end of the velvet rope and awaited the next teller. When moved up so did the woman behind me. I looked out of the corner of my eye and the woman was about two inches away from me.

I wanted to ask her, "Do you need to be standing so close to me?" But I didn't. I have noticed especially at church, I observe people because I arrive early, there will be plenty of open pews and people always sit in the same pew or right behind them. Why do they have to sit so close when there are plenty of seats? Are people that afraid to be by themselves?

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