What's worse than someone sitting next to you in an otherwise empty empty waiting room?

[CrochetBelle]

Sitting correctly opposite you when there's only about 1 metre distance between the rows of chairs.

What the fuck is wrong with people? Don't they know that is Too Close?

Safety in numbers.

It's the same in car parks. Drives DH mad.

What gets my goat however is checkout queues. The people behind me......There is no point trying to climb on for a piggy back., I've nowhere to fucking go when there is still someone in front of me!!!

I've devised a plan now, that pisses those sorts of people off even more now however!

Arriving at a lovely sandy beach with plenty of room. Setting up 'camp'. Watching as half a dozen groups pitch up right next to you. Even though the beach is empty for miles. Why not just go a bit further along the beach so you can have more space to yourselves?

Oh what's the plan?

I hate the up-arse shoppers. I have been known to get fed up (as soon as physical touch is involved) and ask if they dropped something from their basket up my arse.

@MaxPepsi Do share the plan!

Yep Cedar, I don't often spend time relaxing at the beach, but it seems that when we take the dog down there seems to be someone appear who practically tags along. How about you go one direction and I'll go the other, mate?

People who walk right behind you in the street. I mean right behind you. They don't try and overtake you. It drives me nuts. I usually just stop and move to the side to let them get past.

Oh god, the pressure 😂

I'm sure it's something you already do anyway! And this isn't what I do in Lidl or Aldi, where the rules are just different!!

I leave a small gap after the person in front shopping then the divider then my own, not huge but just enough to give myself space.

I then put the trolley behind me and always ensure my shopping takes up at least the length of the trolley if not more and I keep the handle of the trolley in line with the end of my shopping as it moves along the belt
People then can't get close to me and breathe down my back.

As I get to the cashier, I leave the front of the trolley just behind where the card machine is so after I've packed I can move back to pay.
If that doesnt work,which is rare, and person behind me pushes my trolley forward I push it back in line with my shopping and continue to do so.There is no where for them to go and it's not going to make things go any quicker!!

What you do is this: get up for a magazine or to read a poster and move seats.
Or just move.
I hate the ones with no boundaries.

@mrswhiplington

I'd go a step further - I hate it when someone walking slowly starts racing you when move to overtake them, like really, really fast in an absurd game of chicken to see who runs first. But as soon as you're past, they slow right down and disappear over the horizon.

The only thing that's worse are those people who desperately need to walk two or three abreast across a path and get shitty when oncoming walkers don't curtsy their way into a main road.

When I used to clear tables in a café it used to drive me potty that people would always, always sit at a dirty table. So thirty-odd clean tables to choose from, why on earth would you sit at the only one with the dirty crockery on it? And then moan loudly about the dirty crockery. And it wasn't even as if it was the best table in the café. It could be the shitty tiny one next to the toilets and people would still sit there if there was any dirty crockery left on it. WHY?

I hate when people do it in queues & I can feel their breath on the back of my neck I have now perfected an exaggerated hair flick and a strategic step backward