To think some people must be totally oblivious to the fact that there are other people in the world too?

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Either that or they are totally selfish, thoughtless arseholes!

I seem to keep coming across people that think the world revolves around them.

A couple of days ago I went into town and parked in a pay-and-display car park, which has only one ticket machine. I went to the machine to get a ticket and there was a thirtysomething woman already at the machine. She took quite a while fiddling around with the machine, which is fair enough as they are quite complicated (you have to put in car reg etc first). However she then took out her phone, called someone, presumably her partner and asked whether or not he/she wanted a '1 hour, 2 hour or 3+ hours ticket'. She then went into a complete conversation with them, saying which shops she wanted to go in, that she had to take such-and-such back to Debenhams. She must have chatted for 3 or so minutes, all the time standing right at the machine with her hands on it like she was using it. She came off the phone, looked round and saw me but didn't apologise for holding me up or keeping me waiting, and then took ages actually getting her ticket.

Yesterday I took my DCs to a café/restaurant chain. About midway through our lunch, three adults came and sat at the table next to us. The tables are very close together and along one side there was just one long bench-style seat. Two other adults, that presumably they knew, walked over to chat and stood between our table and theirs, with their backs to our table, chatting for about 20 minutes. During that time, DD got up to go to the loo and squeezed past them and they just looked at her, as if she'd inconvenienced them. After a while the 2 extra adults went back to their table and the waiter went over to ask the table next to us what they'd like to order. They then took a further 20 minutes, waiter stood at their table, discussing what they wanted to eat, did they want X or Y, changing their minds etc.

During the 20 minutes he was stood at their table I wanted to pay but obviously I couldn't pay him as he was with them. So I went up to the counter and asked for my bill but apparently only my waiter could deal with me, so I had no choice but to sit there for another 10 minutes or so whilst they faffed around, changed their minds and asked questions. It was as if they were the only people in the world! And it's not like it was a gourmet restaurant or something where the food was going to be really complicated and needed explaining to them.

Grrrrrrr!

People who stand too close - my mum always says "listen love, stand any closer and we'll have to get married!"

OMG Slatecross I think I love your Mum!

It was arseholes day out in the supermarket today. first in the carpark i am turning into a space and some prick pulled in via the space facing it (like drove over two spaces) to the point he almost hit my car. tosser.

checkout lady spent 5 minutes yakking to her colleague before bothering to serve me then had the cheek to say to my bored-of waiting ds who was getting agitated "oh shopping is boring isnt it". yes it fucking is when you're 4 and have to stand still waiting on some ignorsnt cow to finish her morning gossip session.

forgot to get pasta, so went back round for that and food bank items, queuing for self serve and tosspot #1 blocks me accross the way with trolley, tosspot #2 uses thisnas an excuse to queuejump then tuts at me when i cut back in front.

to the person who said we need a MN name for these people, "dickheads" works fine for me

Thought another one:

I was in a branch of H&M on Saturday, and went downstairs to the childrenswear department. The woman before me at the till clearly thought the world revolved around her as she took ages to be served, then ages to put her purse in her bag, etc.

I then got served quickly (why do shop assistants always treat some people like they are royalty and then the following customers get rushed through the till?), and went to the escalator to get back upstairs, only to find Mrs World-Revolving-Around-Me was standing at the foot of the escalator with her two teenage girls and they were all swapping bags around, looking in each others carrier bags, and chatting! All stood in a semi circle around the escalator so that I couldn't get on. I said "excuse me" and they all looked at me, and slowly and reluctantly got on the escalator, as if I'd greatly inconvenienced them by daring to use the escalator. Fuckwits.

Obviously that should be thought of another one not "thought another one". It's early. I've had no coffee yet

I like to think these types of people are just oblivious rather than awful people.

I used to to, until more years ago than I remember.

The A+E bleep went off, I went to take my ECG machine to A+E and coudn't get past a woman lecturing one of the nursing staff about something.

I said 'excuse me' a couple of times
She looked me up and down and said.'No young lady, I will not excuse you, I am in the middle of a conversation'

I told her I was on the way to a cardiac arrest, i A+E, she still refused to move. (OK it was an MI not an arrest but I wasn't going to explain that to her)

That was the point I told her I was going to A+E and if she didn't move I'd go right through her.

Pedestrians in the clearly marked cycle lane (when the pedestrian lane is empty).
That then give me the evils because I've approached them slowly and rang my bell.

People who stop to have a conversation thereby blocking the pavement / doorway / stairs etc.
Often sigh in response to a kindly toned 'excuse me', as if them having to step aside to unblock a doorway is a massive inconvenience.

Couples walking along narrow streets holding hands refusing to let go of each other thereby forcing others (incl children) to walk in the road. Just whyyyyy?

People who spend ages waiting in the queue for the checkout and then only think to look for vouchers / find loyalty cards / select a payment method after the shopping has all been put through.

I am quite assertive and will say 'excuse me', but have found that the sort of person guilty of the above often either doesn't care at all, or gives a load of abuse in response.

YADNBU.

I wonder if it's because I'm quite small, but people (usually large men) are always nearly walking into me. I was standing on a train platform the other day, plenty of room, and this couple came and stood kind of in front/to the side of me. The guy then proceeded to shuffle backwards until he was almost on top of me, with his back touching the book I was reading. He then jumped, clearly startled, and turned round, glaring at me as though I'd walked into HIM! I hadn't moved at all.

People who stand too close - my mum always says "listen love, stand any closer and we'll have to get married!"

I might try that one :-) I'm sure I'll have occasion to soon enough.

People who get off the metro and stop dead (whilst trying to work out where to go) causing everyone to bump into them/each other, then everyone frantically pushes everyone off when the door buzzer goes.

The biggest offenders tend to be tourists, who are totally oblivious to you saying "excuse me" as (IMO) they don't expect anyone to talk to them

Same thing when people get off the escalator and stop dead. Where do they expect all the people behind them to go if they're blocking the way?

The only time I've been rude is when I physically pushed a snogging couple out of the way as they were blocking the door and I needed to get off.

Or when people stand on the wrong side of the escalators so no-one can walk up them. Stand to the fucking right!

I remember being in a very busy shop just before Christmas last year. It was rammed with people pushing and shoving their way around.

So my DM and I made our way to the back of a very long queue and a couple of seconds later a woman on her phone joined behind us, she exclaimed loudly into her phone 'I SWEAR I'm the only fucking polite person in here!!'
At which point, my mother with perfect timing slowly turned around and gave her the perfect expression.

She didn't stay on the phone for long after that.

6:50am this morning, queuing for the bus in the cold and dark. Bus arrives early for once and the queue dutifully shuffles on (frequently delayed by the need for Certain Passengers to remember they'll need their bus pass). Woman turns up, looks at the queue and tries to cut in. The lady she tried it on pointed out that there was a queue, which she should join.

"But this is the bus I need to get!"

- we were just queuing for the fun of it! There's nothing I enjoy more than randomly queuing for buses I don't intend to get on in the arsecrack of the morning.

She is sent to the back of the queue (which has since got longer). There are still seats available when she finally gets on.

SOmetimes though, I do think people need to calm down, slow down and realise it really doesn't matter.

Thank goodness I have everything delivered and order on-line from the peace and quiet of my own home. Had enough of the "rat race".

if someone on the underground stands in my way, when the doors open, I say loudly "Excuse me please" and if they don't move ASAP, I put my hand on the top back of their shoulder and apply a firm but polite level of pressure and repeat.

I put my arm out to block queue jumpers where possible.

Men who sit with massive spread legs on the bus / benches.

I am sure they have tiny tackle so what the fuck are they playing at.

The examples on this thread has boiled my piss! Hate rude fuckers.

People who leave their bags on the seat on a crowded train. I always say "excuse me, may I sit down" first, and then if they don't respond I say it again a bit louder in case they are hard of hearing or distracted - I sympathise with that because I'm a bit of a dozy type myself and haven't always noticed someone hovering When it is quite clear that they have heard me but don't intend to do anything about it - like the young lady who gave me a Look and hitched her handbag a little closer to her side, well after all it was a lot more expensive than my scruffy item so it clearly deserved a seat all to itself - I plonk my large arse down. Amazing how quickly they whip those bags out of the way then. And then I smile and say thank you so sincerely

One of many reasons I am so glad not to be in the rail commutin' business these days.

There are some mums at school that have a conversation every morning whilst stood in the doorway into the reception classrooms. Then look put out when children and parents try to squeeze past them to get through the door.

I had one yesterday. My kids were doing their homework in a café (only way things fit in on Mondays). A precious little darling from the next table kept coming to disturb them - talking, putting her iphone right over their books, tugging at them, trying to stop them going to the toilet, following my son up while he ordered and telling him he got the order wrong... We were nice to her at first, then I said twice, firmly and loudly enough for anyone nearby to hear "excuse me darling, it is nice to meet you sweetheart, but now my children need to work". My kids were studiously ignoring her, as they didn't want to have to do their homework today. The women she was with just smiled indulgently, and kept on chatting. I never quite found the right words to say "excuse me, please take your child away...".

This one applies to kids, so I might be being a tad harsh....but when queueing in those long queues that fold back on themselves several times and have permanent dividers....think alton towers, and you begin weaving your way through and kids cut you up by ducking under the dividers! wishes I had the flexibility to join them

OldBagWantsNewBag - oh, I would love that :-)

vtechjazz - that's not being harsh. Kids have no more right to jump the queue than anyone else.

I left a restaurant without paying once. the waitress was spending her time flirting with a table of men next to us. i asked 5 times to pay and waited 25 mins. i was told i could only pay my waitress and couldn't pay at the bar. I left my phone number at the bar for the manager to ring me regarding the bill, got a call from the manager the next day apologising and telling me not to worry about the bill. Im sure ill be flamed but i refuse to be held prisoner waiting for a lazy waitress to flick her hair and giggle rather than take my payment.

On a similar note to lunar.....it seems as a woman, I become invisible at a busy bar if the staff are young women as they seem to serve only the hot guys! And, if they are men, they walk past frumpy little me to the busty model type next to me :'(
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