To wonder why people fuck about so much?

Why didn't I think of using the self checkouts?
Mainly because they are either full with queues a mile long or closed

I don't want to make homemade sandwiches-I'm not a fan of sweaty sandwiches (no fridge at work) and no matter what I use to wrap them in,they just taste wrong

I enjoy (mainly) choosing lunch the supermarket and why shouldn't I?

I have as much right to buy something at the shop as everyone else

I can't accept that people are fucking rude and inconsiderate, no.

Make your lunch, no need to go to a shop. Or if you must buy a meal deal, use the self checkouts rather than deliberately choosing to stand in a queue behind people who might dare to speak to one another or use the conveyor belt.

There's also usually "express" lanes or small shop checkouts.

Some of these problems are of your own making.

My local skip is a very busy place. There is often a huge queue of cars and once you are in the queue, you absolutely cannot leave, there is no way of driving out of it or turning around due to the way it's structured. You're going through the skip, and that's that.

Today, I was in the queue of doom and a worker walked along the line of cars and told everyone that they just needed to use the crusher before they could let anyone through and to do that, they needed to wait until the cars already parked up and using the skips, had all left, then they could use the crusher and start letting people in again. It was my lunchbreak so I was in a bit of a rush, but nothing I could do.

But watching the people already using the skip was so irritating. They knew there was a line of approximately 20-30 cars waiting, they knew no one else could enter until every car had gone, but they all sauntered back and forth with their stuff from their boots, they stopped and chatted to one another, one guy had a quick cigarette before getting in his car, another sat in the drivers seat and did something on his phone before slowly putting on his seatbelt and leaving...

I just cannot understand people who are so incredibly slow and insist on doing unnecessary things in busy places where people are clearly waiting to use the thing they are using.

The other day, a waitress bringing our food to out table stopped mid-way and chatted to a customer she knew, while holding our plates of food, letting them get cold - why? talk on the way back if you must!

And the amount of people I see letting their toddlers use their debit cards to pay while smiling indulgently as the kids drops the card or taps it wrong with a queue of people waiting, or who stand at the till transferring money, or ask the bus driver an endless series of questions with a whole busload of people waiting, plus the 50 cars behind the bus....

If you are one of these people who fuck about, why? and are you also irritated by the fucking about or am I just far too angry?

I used to have this at school

I was either dropping off or picking up and as soon as I had,I needed rush off to get to work/college or would be knackered and just want to grab the kids and go home

I'd always get stuck behind the mums/dads who seemed to have all the time in the world to walk slowly to the classroom,hang around at the door and then slowly walk back out while chatting to their mates,then standing chatting at the gates,blocking anyone who was in a rush

I just wanted to get in,do the 'love you!bye sweetheart' before rushing out to catch the bus

And then you'd get the glares for daring to ask them politely to move (while moving as slowly as they could)

Same at hometime-theyd stick around got so long in the playground,the after school club had to issue a letter asking them to get their kids and go

Made no difference at all-the same faces just faffed about for hours in the playground,chatting to their mates (pick up was 3:15 and they'd still be there at half 6)

Now I walk via a sainsburys on the way to work

I want to get in,choose my lunch,pay and get the hell out if there

Every single time,I get stuck behind Derek at the meal deal section-he's slowly choosing a sandwich while taking up the whole section with his trolley

I finally get to chose mine and rush to the till

I get stuck behind mavis who is slllooowwwlllyyy putting her shopping through on the belt

Once it's all on there and put through,she has to piss about finding her purse and glasses but can't remember if they are in her pocket or handbag,also she can't find her nectar card so slowly checks both,normally twice before finding one but not the other

Finally she pays (while acting slightly shocked what she had to find her cards) and then stands in the way while she packs her shopping as slowly as she can

Her husband normally shows at this point,slowing down the whole process further while I'm bent double trying to get my lunch through and go

I always get stuck behind the slowest person on the planet while trying to get out and then I'm finally free and in more of a rush to get to work

I do try to go to tesco I'd I can because it doesn't seem to happen so badly there-i can pay at the tobacco till-longest I've waited is 3 minutes

My darling mil

I adore her,I couldn't love her more but as soon as we are ready to leave the house,it's like she freaks out

Have we shut and locked all the windows?
Is the cooker off?
Have we locked the French doors?
Have I got my purse/glasses/keys/handbag/medication?
Are all the lights off?
Have we unplugged everything?
Is the front door locked properly?

I adore her but want to strangle her at the same time (lighthearted)

I was once up at 6 am for work,finished at 2pm and wed agreed to have a mates dog and he said he'd drop the dog off at about half 4/5

Hes faffed about at home so much,he finally dropped the dog off at midnight

I was on my knees,I'd been up 18 hours (8 at work-retail) and he came bouncing into our house and stayed for an hour,just faffing about in the kitchen (I went to bed-i left him to dp)

I hate faffers with a passion

My local skip is a very busy place. There is often a huge queue of cars and once you are in the queue, you absolutely cannot leave, there is no way of driving out of it or turning around due to the way it's structured. You're going through the skip, and that's that.

Today, I was in the queue of doom and a worker walked along the line of cars and told everyone that they just needed to use the crusher before they could let anyone through and to do that, they needed to wait until the cars already parked up and using the skips, had all left, then they could use the crusher and start letting people in again. It was my lunchbreak so I was in a bit of a rush, but nothing I could do.

But watching the people already using the skip was so irritating. They knew there was a line of approximately 20-30 cars waiting, they knew no one else could enter until every car had gone, but they all sauntered back and forth with their stuff from their boots, they stopped and chatted to one another, one guy had a quick cigarette before getting in his car, another sat in the drivers seat and did something on his phone before slowly putting on his seatbelt and leaving...

I just cannot understand people who are so incredibly slow and insist on doing unnecessary things in busy places where people are clearly waiting to use the thing they are using.

The other day, a waitress bringing our food to out table stopped mid-way and chatted to a customer she knew, while holding our plates of food, letting them get cold - why? talk on the way back if you must!

And the amount of people I see letting their toddlers use their debit cards to pay while smiling indulgently as the kids drops the card or taps it wrong with a queue of people waiting, or who stand at the till transferring money, or ask the bus driver an endless series of questions with a whole busload of people waiting, plus the 50 cars behind the bus....

If you are one of these people who fuck about, why? and are you also irritated by the fucking about or am I just far too angry?

I have form for being a very impatient person when it comes to things like this and sometimes I still get wound up by faffers, but for the most part I have chilled out quite a lot. A few years ago I moved to a road with a level crossing at both ends and no over/underpass for pedestrians. I decided to use the time I spend there waiting for trains to pass to practise my patience as there is nothing that can be done about how long the gate is down (which is sometimes for a full 5-7 minutes before the train comes and the record for waiting there was 18 minutes once) and it mostly worked. I have more patience for things that I have no control over, though it’s still a work in progress given that I screamed the other day after sitting on hold for 50 minutes only to be told by the clueless customer service rep that they had no idea how to help me with my query 😜

It could be worse. I married a massive faffer. A large chunk of my life is spent waiting for him to stop dithering on one thing or another. My absolute pet hat is when he keeps asking. If I’m ready as if he’ll be first out the door . But every. Single. Time. He will say oh shit I forgot something and have to go back, leaving me sitting in the car waiting for him. Arghhhhhhhh

I think I'd start by looking at why I was so irritated by these things. Wanting to be efficient is one thing, but things annoying you to the point it becomes a detrimental irritation isn't a healthy response to living in a society which unavoidably involves compromise and things not always going as smoothly as you'd like them to. Concentrate on the things you can control, plan around the things you can't, and give a bit of compromise about the rest!

I think this is why Botox and religion are invented. Patience is a virtue after all.

I’m sure we are all just as annoying about other things to each other.

For example I don’t mind faffers, but I do find people huffing and muttering under their breath about faffers just rude. I find people who are always in a rush and perfectionist very exhausting.

live and let live, and mind how you go - no need to be rude and dismissive about people you don’t know, or do!

Also add people who seem shocked that they have to pay for items. Despite being stood in the queue for 5 minutes they then wait for the cashier to tell them how much it is before they realise they need their purse/wallet to pay and faff about getting it out.

This is a genuine question...so if you get your card out as soon as you've finished loading, where do you then put it to free up your hands to load the shopping after it's scanned? I'm very quick at finding my card in my bag after scanning, but according to previous posters, waiting until then is too slow.