Reply To: my dream shul

all right, for purposes of proper venting:

Tonight by ma’ariv someone behind me finished sh’moneh esrei in approximately no time and spent the rest of his stay pacing up and down the aisle, which included brushing me, a lucky aisle seat sitter, a lot of times, thus disturbing by private meditation. Like, what’s wrong with him???

As an aside, I have observed a few times people who make sure the person behind them is finished s”e before taking the three steps backwards (as they rightfully should) and then after taking three steps backwards, pace in front of people in middle of s”e. Admittedly, this isn’t the norm.