to get annoyed with people who are not ready when it's their turn?

[HolyAutumnGoldBatman]

I stood behind a woman in the queue in H&M today for 20 minutes. When she got to the counter she wanted to exchange something. The lady serving asked for her receipt. Cue 10 minutes of searching all her carrier bags, her handbag, her pockets, her purse, through 100 other receipts that were in her purse, the floor before she finally located it. The queue got longer and longer and longer.

I also find this at the airport when people wait until it's their turn to put their stuff in the little tray thing to take off their belt/shoes, take out their laptop/liquds. Why not do it while you're waiting, so you can just put it in when you get there?

AIBU to think that you should have your receipt/card/cash/shoes/liquids or whatever to hand if you've been waiting to be served for 20 minutes?

[BupcakesAndCunting]

Actual LOL at MorrisZapp and wartime map of the Cotswolds.

[hermioneweasley]

Agree, YANBU. As a frequent flyer the people who get to the front of the security queue, start faffing, are surprised that liquids are limited and have to be in alastair bag etc, I think should be sent to the back of the queue to think about what they have done.

[alienreflux]

sorry if this has already been said, haven't got time to read all 5 pages of pissed offness, but ON THE BUS!!!! You need bus fare people, you know (generally, you get it every f*&^%ng day!) how much it is, so whyyyyy do you wait til you're at the driver to rummage for purse in bag, rummage for change in purse, rummage putting ticket in said stuffed purse special place, before you sit the fuck down??!! and breathe!!

[Snorbs]

MorrisZapp, you'll have to kill her. For the good of humanity. I'm sure you'd get a statue erected and everything.

[alienreflux]

morriszapp you are a fucking legend

[DizzyHoneyBee]

It's not an issue now, but something that was guaranteed to make my blood boil was people who would write a cheque out when the guarantee card was a debit card - that used to really, really p*ss me off.

[thixotropic]

It's not impatience though, when we are stuck behind a Faffer.

It's about respect.

The faffer in front is saying loudly and clearly, Fuck you, Fuck whatever else you have to do. You are not important, and I am.

That is what irritates me.

[flowery]

Women in the supermarket queue who stand and watch all their shopping go through and then look surprised when the assistant says "that'll be £18.63 please" and they need to rummage in their bag to get their purse out.

People who slow down when approaching green traffic lights in case they turn.

[GoSakuramachi]

Sakura why is it easier to get your stuff ready whilst standing still at the conveyor than it would be to get your stuff ready standing still in the queue? Standing still is standing still surely? If you can't do it in the queue, you should move to one side whilst you sort it, not block everyone else. It's just good manners.

Because then you get to put everything DOWN into the basket doodads. I can't do it in the queue while shuffling forward, I don't have enough hands! How do I hold the baby and the hand luggage and push the pram and take my belt off and my computer out of the bag, all while moving forward in the queue? Who could do that? Its not blocking everyone else, its doing it in the correct manner, there is no need to have done everything before you get to the conveyor.

[wisden]

Not finished reading the thread yet but gettingeasier I am with you on the lidl/aldi chllenge
At the start I am putting items carefully in my trolley in order of weight/size etc, but by the end I am scooping it off the counter into my trolley so my yoghurts split, pop fizzes, bread is squashed but it is worth it just so I can put my card in before the cashier can say "cash or card?"
Every single week, I walk out of there wondering what the hell got into me and vow I won't behave in the same way next week. I always do.
My theory is that as you enter the store they squirt some invisible spray over all the shoppers, a bit like like red bull, only you inhale it without knowing.

[diddl]

"are surprised that liquids are limited and have to be in alastair bag etc,"

An alastair bag??!!

New brand that I haven´t heard of?

[wisden]

Oh and DH is an arse at cashpoints. He enters his card, thinks for a few minutes about his pin number. Checks his statement on screen, then gets a print out. Studies it for 10 minutes, then gets cash out, then gets a receipt that he will study for another 10minutes, then will tear thge receipt up into a million pieces whilst the queue behind him gets longer and longer. Then he faffs putting his card back into the correct place in his wallet, the money in his wallet, puts the wallet in his back pocket which is a tight squeeze only then will he move away from the cash machine. Arse.

[Carrie37]

Funny story.... Several years ago at Dh's christmas party he was hottly debating some twaddle with his boss (best ever grand prix driver or similar crap) the waitress arrived and asked them THREE times "chicken or beef, sir?" and was completely ignored she then lost it and shouted "do youse want F--CKING chicken or what"?

The manager quickly appeared with free wine for all, the poor girl was moved to different table but amazingly didn't lose her job!

All this in thee poshest best known hotel in the City (not telling which city just in case.)

[CelticParalympian]

limited

What was the response to your complaint?

[CelineMcBean]

It is a wonder I ever leave the house because the following make me murderous:

People who insist on standing at the end of the checkout so you can't put your shopping on having loaded theirs. Move out the sodding way!

Those who don't put the divider on the belt but stand in the fricking way so I can't reach it.

People who wait until they reach the bank counter before writing out a cheque or paying in slip.

People who don't stow the basket tidily under the end of the counter so I have to move a 6-basket leaning tower of Pisa carefully out before stacking them neatly or risk serious injury to me, my toddler and the people behind.

People who take a trolley down the "hanbaskets only checkouts". They invariably get stuck and then huff loudly while doing nothing as if it is someone else's fault until being rescued.

Particular to Waitrose: people who unload then abandon their trolley in the queue wtf is that about?! And pair of posho women stand gossiping with full trolley of stuff. They wait until the person in front has paid for their shopping. They continue to chat before lesiurely unloading shopping, occasionally pausing to continue chat unhampered by loading. They then continue chat once unloaded leaving shopping in a heap at end of conveyor belt while cashier and I eye-ball each other in disbelief before the cashier bag packs (having previously ignored cashier's offer to bag pack and any other conversation from said cashier) and then, only then do they look on in amazement when ask to pay for the shopping, before abandoning their trolley in my way!!!

I want to shout at all of them "HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN IN A SHOP BEFORE YOU IGNORANT TWATS??!!" whilst simultainiously throttling them with the strap of their Mulberry but I resist because I know doing so would just make me even later.

[crosscupcake]

Ok, what about those who are not ready when the traffic light changes from red to green.

HUUUUge line of traffic behind them and 8.30am, the light changes to amber then green...THEN they get into gear and take off handbrake and slowly pull off.

Some of us have to get to work..be ready fuckwits

[PigletJohn]

hee hee!

When I was on crutches after an accident, I swung towards the cash-machine in the corner of a supermart. When I was 6 feet from it, a person dodged in front of me and stuck her card in.

I went up very close behind her and made my warning-at-naughty-horses growl.

Pleased to say she quickly cancelled, grabbed her card and scuttled off.

[Annunziata]

YANBU! It's infuriating, and six times out of ten it's the same people who tut about being in the queue.

The worst, though, is people who get surprised when you ask them for their order. You know, you've given them a menu, left them for a few minutes, or they've been waiting in the queue (right under the FECKING MASSIVE wall menu) and then you say, 'yes, can I help you?' and they looked surprised. WTF.

[CelineMcBean]

Ooh just thought of another in the supermarket. Those people who have no concept of a turn. For example, they pay for their shopping, walk off a bit then come back brandishing their receipt/car park ticket/jar of olives or whatever and blithely resume their turn, as if they have never left, by complaining that the bogof on Parma ham hasn't gone through/pushing across me to insist their parking ticket is stamped/ask a fuckwit question like "are these kalamarta organic and what is the name of the grower?".

Of course the poor checkout person can't do anything now (except with the parking ticket but they should still wait their turn) and all of things could be dealt with at customer services who are at most 8 tills away.

[AlionalovesPan]

[hermioneweasley]

Agree with thixotropic about respecting other peoples' time.

[CelineMcBean]

Ok I am impatient but even I don't expect a woman to remove her pants and tights and then sit in the waiting room to save time. That is not only unreasonable but probably unhygienic on those nasty plastic chairs

I also get annoyed with those people who moon about in a queue so you don't know if they are queuing or not. You stand squished up while a gap of 5 metres opens up before they shuffle forward a bit or discover that they are really browsing the Hugh Fernley-Whatsits and her-off-Loose-Women books in the queue for the post office counter. Not that they actually SAY that. Oh no.

And anyone, anyone who pushes in front and THEN FAFFS... I think braining them with a butternut squash would be justifiable homicide.

Since when did we lose the ability to wait our turn, get out of the way as quickly as possible and if we need a bit of time to faff STANDING TO ONE BLOODY SIDE until we are ready? It's about manners and courtesy IMO.

[wherearemyGOLDsocks]

YANBU

I work in pubs and when it's very busy, lots of people waiting and I go to serve someone and only then do they start asking their friends what they want then I just say I'll come back when you're ready and start serving the person next to them. Likewise if after I've served their drinks and then they start faffing around getting their money out the I'll start serving the next person and make them wait before they can pay. I only do this when its really busy mind.