Am I invisible? Or is this just a cultural thing?

So, today, I made a run out to Rite Aid and Kennie's to pick up a few necessary items. My first stop was at Rite Aid, I was standing in the aisle comparing two products, trying to decide which one to get, and no joke, a kid, probably in his early teens comes tearing up the aisle, plows into me, and knocks me flat on my patookiss. Now, this wouldn't be all that terrible, if he had even acknowledged that he had just ran into me and knocked me over. But he didn't. He kept on running, and I was left to pick my sorry bumm up off the floor, and gather up my items, and proceed to request a clean-up in aisle 6, since my hand soap exploded when it hit the ground. I, shaking my head in disbelief, proceeded to the check-out, and left. As I'm walking out the door, a gentleman in his 40s proceeds to come around the corner, arm swinging, which connected with my kidney. At least this guy apologized, after stating, "Sorry, I didn't see you there!" That being said, I was starting to wonder if it was just me, or if I was about to be run over in the parking lot by the next guy who didn't see me.

Sadly, the story doesn't end there. Because the next stop was at Kennie's. I got out of my car and walked inside. As I stood at the cheese counter contemplating if I really needed that brie (I decided I did... what can I say, I love brie), an older woman came up behind me, pushing her cart toward me. As I started to reach my hand out for to claim my brie.... she SHOVED the cart into my right hip. Now, I am normally a very patient person. But really? This was the third person in the course of maybe 15 minutes to add to my streadily-growing collection of bruises. So I, take a deep breath and turn calmly toward her... waiting for the apology, that SURELY must follow such a blatant shove. She just looked at me, said "Didn't see you," grabbed the brie I had been reaching for (the last of the quality, double-cream that they had), and proceeded with, what I can only imagine to be the remainder of her quality-grocery stealing. So much for me bringing home the brie today!

All of this has led me to wonder... 1) Am I really becoming invisible?! 2), What are we teaching our kids when they think it is acceptable to go running through a store (especially when they're old enough to know better!), knock someone over (and thank goodness it was me and not a little elderly woman!), and not even apologize? 3) What does it say about our society if people think it is perfectly acceptable to physically shove someone in order to take something for themselves? Have we really become that much of an individualistic culture, that I need to be more prepared for a full-on brawl just to get a wedge of brie?!