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You can always tell the rebbetzin. She's the one who's making a point of standing in the aisle in a public location drawing attention to how frum (religiously observant) she is.

While everybody else uses the mornings to daven at home, this person has other things in mind. Her relationship to religion is not between her and G-d but it's between her and the rest of the world. She wants to demonstrate just how frum she is by doing her things in public.

When it comes time to say certain prayers like Shmoneh Esrei, she will stand in the aisle or shuckle (move back and forth) at her seat so that people notice her. Those who stand in the aisle cannot move of course, so they block the movement of people in the aisle, but that's okay because the purpose is to show everybody how frum they are and to draw attention to that fact.

Now of course this does not mean that there is any problem with saying prayers in public. To the contrary, some people say Tehillim (Psalms) in public places in order to avoid wasting their time and this is perfectly acceptable. They are praying and their prayers are between them and the A-lmighty and their only goal is to say their prayers in a quiet way.

The rebbetzin is different. The Rebbetzin is trying to show others how frum she is and it seems that that is the purpose of her blocking the aisle. She will make sure that she does not have time or that she has excuses for not davening at home because she has a different goal in mind.

The rebbetzin is typical of people who are very full of themselves and of the mission that they feel they have to accomplish. They like to show others how important they are in trying to fulfill this mission and how devoted they are to the mission.

In the case of the rebbetzin, the mission is to be frum or to demonstrate frumkeit. Other people with other challenges or directions in life might also want to show others how important they are in fulfilling their mission.

In all too many cases their goal backfires but they don't really care because their underlying goal is to gain attention for themselves. The secondary goal of showing people how important their activity is often backfires as well. People either get annoyed with the fact that the rebbetzin is blocking the aisle or else they say "Wow! It really is hard to be like the rebbetzin. I'm not even going to try."