Post Office

I went to the Post Office main branch today to mail out some magazines. It wasn't busy in there and the line seemed to be moving at an average rate.

There was an opening at the first window. I heard the guy call out that the next person in line could come up. The person at the front of the line didn't hear and there was a brief pause in the flow of things. Suddenly, the guy in front of me says "Step right up to the end window. Don't be shy." But he was a few people behind the woman waiting at the head of the line. He said it loudly, and condescendingly. It happened again a couple people later, only this time it was an old man who didn't hear the person at the first window. I can't remember the guy's exact words the second time but it was similar and in the same spirit as the first time. Loud enough to draw attention to himself, condescending to make others feel stupid, and to top it off, he also made a "pfft" noise as if to stress his annoyance at the situation.

I thought he was being incredibly rude. Then he started talking to me. I only nodded and half-smiled. There was no way I was going to talk to him.
1) I'm out of his price range
2) he was being a jackass
3) even if he wasn't old enough to be my dad, I didn't find anything even aesthetically (let alone intellectually) pleasing about him.

What was really funny was what I saw when I was departing. I hadn't noticed before that my car was parked next to his. When I went outside, he was still out there, even though he had finished his business at least five minutes before me. He was sitting in his car doing something, all the while making several cars wait for him. Had I the gumption and had his window been down, I might have pointed west whilst saying "the exit is that way, don't be shy."