What do strangers do that most annoys you?

[amandacarnet]

I mean everyday things, not things like genocide.
For me it is standing blocking doorways as they chat away. It is the total lack of awareness of other people that really annoys me.

People who don't clear up dog poo.

Get off the bus and just stop.
At the moment our town has a 'swam' of kids riding up and down busy roads, pulling wheelies and stunts in front of cars, buses, lorries and well everyone. Thats pretty annoying..

I agree with all of the above. My one is people who don't say thank you, smile or even acknowledge you in any way when you let them passed. Like in a busy shop or narrow street. Recently I've done this and had people look at me make eye contact without any smile or nod nothing. Would it be do difficult to acknowledge I'd done the polite thing and not just barged passed?

People who randomly step backwards.
I am ex-retail. I'd be pootling along with my trolley full of stock to put on the shelves and someone who is looking at something will randomly step backwards either into me or my trolley. Of course it was always MY fault for not mind reading and not at all their fault for not looking before stepping back.
I've had people slam backwards into me when I've been another customer too.
If you're someone who does this, please stop.

Stand at the bottom of the travellator in Sainsburys when everyone is trying to get out the door

Let their kids run round the shop, pushing trolleys, playing with all the toys and then crying when they don't know where their parents are.

Can you tell I work in retail? :)

Having no awareness of others at all!

The amount of times I’ve been annoyed because they are walking in the middle of the path, weaving side to side as slowly as bloody possible so you can’t get by.

Prolonged staring at ds especially when followed by a face pull or tutting.
Parking their car so far on the pavement that I can't get his wheelchair through.
Not picking up dog poo anywhere where someone might walk.
Allowing young children to invade his space whilst smiling indulgently at them.
People who don't stop their NT and old enough to control their own behaviour children from squealing and screaming.
People who use the accessible toilet when they could use an alternative.

Just about anything to do with a mobile phone.

Walking along the street looking at it with no awareness of their surroundings so people have to walk round them to avoid getting mowed down.

Having conversations when on hands free etc so it appears that they are talking to themselves.

Holding the phone at any other angle than flat against the ear, such as at right angles from the chin. Do you like looking like a twat?

Using Facetime or whatever it is where people hold the phone out in front of them and talk at it.

Selfies, selfie sticks, pouting, that weird side on and/or phone above pose that young women always do.

Bings and bongs every five fucking seconds.

Oh, and spitting and littering. Just no need for it.

Because I work in a shop and am generally tolerant of people it's the things they do when I'm at work and therefore in a bit of a hurry and other people are involved. Like putting all their shopping down for me to scan, waiting until half way through and then disappearing for a 'few last bits' without apologising or asking if it's okay. They then leave me with a bag full of scanned produce, no sign of them, and a fast growing queue wondering what the hell the hold up is.

Also people who ask for cigarettes as though I'm psychic. 'JPS please'. JPS, what? Red, blue, green, king size, superkings? And then look at me funny as if I should already 'know' (I do, with my regulars, but if I've never seen you before I don't. I'm not Derren fucking Brown, am I?).

When I ask (reluctantly, you have BEEN in a shop before, haven't you?) if you'd like a bag, sneering at me and saying 'well, I can't CARRY it all, can I?' I don't know, you might have a bag in your pocket, your partner may be joining you to help, you may, quite rightly object to the fucking obscene amount of plastic bags about and want to manage without?

That was cathartic.

Driving slowly, like 50k in a 100k zone.
It makes my 2 month old cry when I get stuck behind them and have to drive slowly

When they get off the tube or train and just stop to consult a map. They don't move out of the way, just block the path for other travellers!

People who get on the bus, then start looking for their purse/bus pass. You knew you were getting a bus, get it out while you're waiting.

People who don’t understand the concept of the quiet carriage. I have learned that noise cancelling headphones with classical playlist (can’t be heard by others, I tested with various people to make sure) is the way forward, but I had a headache the last time I was on a train and I would have preferred to just be able to sit in relative peace.

Walk in front of me,slowly.Hate it! I have to storm ahead

Smoke at entrances and exits fucks me right off

Stepping out of lifts or off escalators and stopping. Taking shoes off on trains/planes. Ostentatious nose picking/crotch scratching on public transport (Sheldon was right about bus pants). Parking on pavements. Blocking the pavement by walking elbow to elbow with their friends.

Strangers who perform to those around them. They are everywhere, public transport, shops, restaurants. There's no escape.

Speaking loudly, attention seeking behaviour or just behaviour that impacts on those around them.

They might be talking on their mobiles, extra long and hard loud conversations that involve personal info that for some reason has to be done in front of complete strangers. Using their speaker of course.

Or in a shop, blocking aisles, causing chaos at the till point or asking for something that the shop doesn't even sell. Then demanding to see the manager to complain.

Ffs, get over yourselves.

Do what you need to do, Enjoy yourselves but don't impact on everyone else ffs.

People who put tickets or keys in their mouths. Why? They have two hands and multiple fingers. Are they channelling dogs?

Make noise.
Make physical contact, however accidental.
Drop litter.

Flying fucking drones. If you're flying a drone, please be aware that everyone who hears it hates you.

-YY to cyclists on pavements! also in busy streets in peak hour traffic. My local city isn't equipped for cyclists yet they all come barging through . . . sigh. Then moan about it.
-Loud-people
-Have had 2 vairy important businessmen/wankers people today do the walk backwards when saying goodbye to someone not looking then banging into me - LOOK where you're going! it was in a crowded street at lunchtime with a million people milling around.

Walking in the middle of a path/not walking in a straight line

Stopping dead as soon as they step out of a shop/restaurant doorway while they "decide which way to go"

Standing in the aisles at supermarkets "having a chat"

Basically anyone who gets in the way of me going about my business, with their general lack of self awareness!

MOVE!!!!!

Posing for selfies - bonus annoying points if doing that duck faced pout thing

@GeoffreyAndBungle

I'll see your duck face pouty selfie and raise you getting your boyfriend to take the photo for you, then checking it, deleting it, and telling him to take another 

(Witnessed while I was on holiday last week)

Standing in the middle of the pavement whilst waiting at the bus stop - then looking annoyed as people have to squeeze past them

Also, other people's children.

Doesn't matter what they're doing, I just don't like them!

(But the feral kind are the worst)

@applehead and then the staff putting the now warm food back in the fridge!!!!