To wonder why people fuck about so much?

Do you not build in 'other people arsing about' time into any task that has to be achieved. It varies from around 10 percent for food to an eye watering 50 percent for any activity at a Post Office. Supermarket car parks 20 percent, bank cash lodgement 15 percent, etc etc
If you do this it makes life easier to navigate.

I dont think it's the walking slow that people are objecting to per se. We all know that some people can't walk fast.
It's the blatent dithering and faffing that's annoying and the complete lack of awareness or consideration.
The OP mentions someone standing by their car having a cigarette, people chatting, a guy sitting on his phone, holding up 20-30 cars!
That's not moving slowly for a medical reason. That's downright selfishness.

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

If you want to do your own thing and take all the time in the world about everything, please stick to quiet times and go live somewhere with no-one else around you.

Same could be said for those who want to do their own thing more quickly than others around them. Stick to times other people won't be there and run round as fast as you like. Go live somewhere there isn't other people to get in your way.

I tend to be pretty efficient at most things I do. I'm quite an impatient person, I do not like waiting for things to come (waiting for a new bed, the time is going way to slowly), I like to do boring things quickly so they're done.

But I also understand that not everyone is like me. Some people are slower, some people live in their own little bubble, some people like the buzz of a busy town and will go do their stuff when it's busy, others prefer quieter times.

Everyone is entitled to be wherever they need to be at whatever time suits them. Why do you think your need at that particular time trumps anyone else's?

The only people who are truly being entitled here are the ones who think their time is so much more important than people who might just happen to be slower than them.

Because the quick, efficient people are not the people cuasing the problem.

I have already said (I think, more than once, I'm not sure) that I'm not blaming people who do not mean to be slow, or can't help it. I am blaming people who know they are slowing others down and simply do not give a fuck. Or the people who do not take a second to think about what they are doing and slow everyone down. The man having a cigarette next to his car yesterday, the woman changing her baby sitting in front of a doorway, the waitress chatting while holding our food, all of these people were being rude and inconsiderate, they are at fault, They are the "aggressors" if you like.

If you have a society where everyone does as they like, moves at the pace they like, uses everything for as long as they like, even when they don't need to, then you have an unfair and slow moving society with little progress and lots of frustration and unhappiness. Consideration for others, basic manners and kindness is essential for a properly functioning sdociety. If you can't give this, or are unwilling to, then fine. But you should go somewhere where other people are not around. You shouldn't reap all the benefits of living in a town, with all it's conveniences, with other people if you are unwilling to follow the rules that help it run smoothly.

I was once at a baby group and as everyone was about to leave, a woman decided that right in front of the side door was the best place to change her baby's nappy. I don't know if she thought she'd found a secluded place or something but that was literally the exit to the bus stops and she was changing a shitty nappy right in the way, on a changing mat, crouched in front of a door. I stood there with my buggy waiting for her to move because I needed to catch the bus, and she looked up and angrily said "can you give me a minute?" a queue of other mums with buggies who needed to leave started to form behind me and she slowed down on purpose to teach these mean people who were making us move a lesson. I missed my bus.

If it was me who had realised I had made a mistake in picking that location, I would have been embarrassed, apologised profusely, and dragged my baby mat out of everyone's way (or tried to, at the very least)

It's not being slow when you can't help it that people mind, it's the sheer lack of awareness of the existence of others and the pure selfishness.

If you want to do your own thing and take all the time in the world about everything, please stick to quiet times and go live somewhere with no-one else around you.

Haha well this is made even funnier by the fact that I am actually French, so you can imagine me walking round shouting it like that 😂 though I am yet to do it in real life! I think I know the one you mean, love his videos!

OP I am with you ...sunday drivers are my worst to encounter.. Derek and jean off for a mooch at a stately home or garden centre, pootling along at 20 mph and you know they are only going for coffee to get them out of the house. Get off the fking road...Every sunday, mix it up please folks go on a tuesday, but no tuesday they cut the lawn, couldn't possibly do both...hate hate hate it!

I work in the airline industry and watching people block an aisle and hold up the boarding of a whole aircraft while they take their sweet time unpacking everything and getting comfortable gives me the rage! However i will admit to being an extremely impatient person.

I do have to defend tradies. They are generally not from the local area (most cover a large area) so probably don't know there's a big, free car park nearby. They also need to sit somewhere. Protocol dictates they can't really sit in the customers house and if they sit in their van outside the customer's house the customer will 9 times out of 10 curtain twitch and then post about them on mumsnet. They'd probably sit in the sandwich shop if it had a few seats but as they often use lunchtime to call customers, GDPR means they can't do that in public, so they need the privacy of their van.
They're generally in a rush to get back to work so won't be there too long.

God, it must be really stressful being you guys.

Absolutely, but busy times when there is a queue is not the time to do it.