Anyone here have experiences with a close talker ?
Those people are annoying...unless they are young women that smell nice.
I don't care to much about the social distancing thing. But there is something to be said about personal space. There is a certain distance where you have to wonder if it is intentional or they are just drunk or otherwise mentally slow.
I was in a store recently at the checkout, and the wife had found something on clearance, but it wasn't marked down in the system yet. The tag was on the item though, so the young man at the counter had to call his department supervisor over to verify so he could change it and they could go find the things and make sure to change the electronic price too.
The next guy in line was getting a small battery, maybe lawnmower? I don't know, but they had him go around to the next counter to scribe the date on it. He came back to pay. This guy stood like 2 feet to my left, maybe less. And I don't mean from my shoulder to him, I mean from my center to him, and I am not a ninny. In line, single file, maybe that's close but sometimes it happens. Sideways in a checkout line when my items are on the counter yet? No. I ignored him for a minute, and then I looked right into his eyes. He saw my head turning and his eyes went off ot the other counter, but he was halfway facing me.
Now, I am 295lbs. I am not sure if this guy thought he would rush me out of the way by crowding me, or what his deal was, but he did not like when I looked square at him.
I waited 20 seconds, which probably felt like 2 minutes to him, and then asked him bluntly if he needed a hug or something. The checkout boy laughed. The guy took a step back and turned away from me.
People are in their own world more and more now days.