{"id":515,"date":"2006-10-12T01:00:25","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/515"},"modified":"2006-10-12T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-12T06:53:19","slug":"foad-personal-space-invaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/515","title":{"rendered":"FOAD &#8211; Personal Space Invaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foadt.com\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/blogpics\/foad.gif\"><\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s FOAD is dedicated to one of the groups of people I hate most in this world. The people who have no concept of personal space.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/blogpics\/spaceinvader.jpg\" align=\"left\"> <strong>The Personal Space Invaders!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Face talkers are the ones I hate most.&nbsp;&nbsp; The people who can&#8217;t talk to you unless their nose is almost touching yours.&nbsp; As if they are deaf, or getting into position just in case something you say gives them an incredible urge to kiss you.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is slightly claustrophobic, this drives me to no end.&nbsp;&nbsp; I hate it <em>so<\/em> much that I even react to it in my sleep.&nbsp; According to my husband, one morning when he woke up, he leaned over to tell me he loves me and give me a kiss.&nbsp;&nbsp; Sweet, huh?&nbsp;&nbsp; How did I react?&nbsp; In my sleep, I reached my hand out and laid it flat on his face and pushed him back a few inches.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I&#8217;m such a romantic.<\/p>\n<p>I often wish I could do this with strangers.&nbsp; Whether it&#8217;s a sales person, the person sitting next to me on the bus or an aquaintance at a social gathering.&nbsp; I would love to plant my hand on their face and tell them to <em>BACK OFF! <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If I feel their breath on my face, that&#8217;s the end of me.&nbsp; You may as well shoot me right there on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Other types of Personal Space Invaders I <strong>loathe<\/strong> include&nbsp;strangers who do the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stand really close behind me while I&#8217;m at a banking machine.\n<li>Sit on my side of a bench when the whole other side is empty.\n<li>Sit directly next to me in a theater without leaving an empty chair in between (unless it&#8217;s a totally packed movie, then I understand.)\n<li>Sit next to me on the train in&nbsp;a 2 seat row, when there are other 2 seat rows totally empty for them to sit in.\n<li>Hover around me while I&#8217;m shopping (salespeople).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any one of these things makes me scream <strong>FOAD <\/strong>in my head and wish I could just shove them until they are out of my space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s FOAD is dedicated to one of the groups of people I hate most in this world. The people who have no concept of personal space.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Personal Space Invaders! Face talkers are the ones I hate most.&nbsp;&nbsp; The people who can&#8217;t talk to you unless their nose is almost touching yours.&nbsp; As if &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-randoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}