Get in the damn queue!

People who don't understand that queues can go around corners - cashpoint machines are the worst for this. Queuers just block the whole bloody pavement (and road!) rather than queue down the street keeping out of everybody's way.

People who stop suddenly at the top of the stairs/escalator to check the map on their phone.

People who stop in downways to take photos- I actually shouted at somebody in the British Museum for this earlier in the week.

And the worst people ... People who wait at ticket barriers for the gates to close before presenting their ticket. They don't have to close before they open! Keep moving!

The pavement parkers grind my gears. I walk with a cane and it makes my life difficult. I can only imagine how it must feel to be pushing a pram or trying to navigate a wheelchair in these situations.

To be fair, in a pharmacy he may have had some nasty ailment that he didn't want to inflict on others - or, he may have been wary of contracting someone else's due to ailments of his own.
Or, he may just have been a knob😉

My irritation: The impatient hares, queue police and pavement police, who moan about us tortoises who like a bit of space.

I have name changed for this because cancer does not define me and I don't refer to it but it is pertinent to this reply. I have stage 4 incurable cancer (to look at me, you would never know) and use a walking stick to keep me steady. Due to low SATS and fatigue I am very slow, but I still have the right to use what little mobility is left to me. I am usually out with a supporting friend, who walks alongside me as my safety net. Obviously they have to match my speed (or lack of it). In my head I am running at the pace I used to when my health was fitter.

I am NOT apologising for my right to slow-lane pavement space. If I see a potential 'barger' heading towards me, I take a strong stance and stop moving altogether because if I lose my balance, the cancer in my bones will probably mean broken bones if I fall. The amount of folk, usually entitled men, who do make bodily contact and then turn to see what 'tank' refused to move for them, is rare, but not unknown. I am sure my stand-still for just a few seconds may further irritate the folk behind me.

Also being neurodiverse, I loved 'social distancing' during Covid: I enjoy a queue-gap. As I said further up, the queue won't move any faster and you won't get to the front in a quicker time frame. So yes, I am probably that person who others find incredibly irritating.

My further irritations are the 'tutters' as they breeze on by, or try and shuffle me forward by invading my body space in a queue. 😂

Just anyone who uses a bloody Lime bike in general. They are an awful blight on the urban landscape.

Most the time I ask someone if they're in the queue its a 'no, go on' and I think 'then why are you standing in the way of the queue'. Never had it the other way round.

The gate thing does my head in at school. The 'chatty' mams seem completely unaware they block everyone else and they always stop or walk ridiculously slow in the NARROWEST bits. The a whole huge open area yard thats 50% empty, so why are you stopped in 1 of the 4 gate ways and/or the small narrow path in between the gates.

My irritation is shoppers who browse the shelves for ages at the supermarket with their full trolley lined up against the shelf, blocking the whole section.

People who spend their train journey chatting to friends, and then get off the train at the station and immediately stop to check their phone for directions, instead of actually walking along the platform and allowing the rest of the carriage to actually get off as well.

Reading this thread has made me realise it's all people, pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and children (let's throw those in for good measure as well) that are all just bloody annoying!!

People who just walk at a weird, slow pace, regardless of what's in front of them and continue walking at that pace even when they walk into something. I had someone do this to my car once. He just walked out into the road and walked into the side of my car while I was waiting at a traffic light and had the nerve to tell me off!

People who wait ages for a bus and then don’t get their oyster out until they are in front of the driver, which they then can’t find.

This may be London-centric, but people who just abandon their Lime or similar bikes in the middle of the pavement with no regard whatsoever for people with visual impairments or mobility problems, wheelchair users, people with pushchairs. Especially if it's fallen on its side! Slowly being tackled by local councils, I believe, insisting they have to be docked in designated areas. Long overdue.

And the people who for some reason sit on a flat bit of road with their handbrake on, and haven't anticipated that they'll need to pull off soon, so lights change/gap in traffic, and they're putting the car into gear, releasing the handbrake then pulling out instead of being ready to go straightaway!

But someone else can step in front, nearly happened in Tesco the other day because some twit didn't move forward and somebody else went to join the end of the queue not realising the queue was all the way back.

It led to a lot British apologies apart from the one fucker who should have just moved the fuck forward!!

You don't have to stand on the person, but an 8ft gap is going to cause confusion!

Stoppers. People who literally just stop. Inside shops, outside shops, at the ticket barrier.

damned queue

The dam queue is strictly for beavers only. 🙊

I walked straight into the back of the woman who played Deidre in Corrie in urban outfitters about 20 years ago when she stopped dead in the door way! She proper glared at me

Oh god, DH did this the other day. I was a bit behind and saw a poor teenager almost collide with him as he came to an abrupt and unexpected stop and yes he had been moving quite quickly up to that point, so teenager had built up some speed. I went all Sybil Fawlty and said ‘Oh for God’s sake Basil (ok he’s not called Basil)!’ And then apologised to the teenager with ‘I’m so sorry my husband appears to be a fool’. He doesn’t make a habit of it though (not yet anyway).

Agreed, especially the socially acceptable dance

The older I get, the more I realise I basically hate everyone.
People who pack away all their shopping at the supermarket checkout before they deign to look for their purse/phone in order to pay (because who could have foreseen they’d need to pay??) and then — obviously — have to put said purse/phone away, zip up their bag etc etc before picking up their shopping and going…
People who passive-aggressively stop and expect you to walk around them when you’re both walking in different directions on a street, rather than doing the socially acceptable, mutually accommodating dance where you each try to move out of the other’s way.
People who park half (or occasionally totally!) on pavements with no consideration for pedestrians/parents with buggies/wheelchair users.
People who park with no consideration for anyone else, full stop.
People who speak too loudly to their dog/child when out, in that performative parenting/pet-owning way.
People who expect me to love their dog/child intruding on my space.
People who don’t apologise for their dog/child intruding on my space.
People who insist on listening to anything in public on loudspeaker.
People who don’t say please, thank you or sorry in situations where I would say one/other of the above.
People who don’t accept my apology where I’ve had occasion to say sorry… (eg, because my dog/child has intruded on their space…)
I could go on…

Oh you're not one of those people that constantly nudges you my the back with their trolly because I've let more than a 5 cm gap appear between me and the person in front....or even worse when I'm hanging back slightly while they do their pin number so they don't think I am trying to steal it.

People who stop at the top or bottom of an escalator to study their phone so everyone piles up behind them. People who stand on the left on escalators on the underground.