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!

I was in a long at a service station waiting to get served when some twat allowed his friends/family? to cut in front of him and they were all served individually.
I was tutting so loud i sounded like skippy.

I work in a shop and the amount of times i am serving a customer and another customer will try to butt in or hand cash over so they leave faster. I have to scan it ffs! Wait in the queue! grrr

Customers try to come into the shop before it opens or after we close. That really annoys me.

Parakeet, I take your cinema phone call and I'll raise youa phone call at the Globe Theatre! In the middle of king Lear, woman's phone goes off. Bad enough, but she then proceeded to have a conversation for a good few minutes. Unfeckingbelievable.

People who you let pass, or give way to in the car, who don't acknowledge you really piss me off. Fair enough, sometimes it's their right of way, but gah!

Ooo and some woman takes her dog to have a poo on my neighbours grass everyday.
It's not even my grass but it really winds me up! She does clean it up but it's the only place her dog will poop!
My neighbour is too much of a walk over to say something.

How dare these people go about their lives without a thought to you and how it would affect you!!
Oh come on people give them a break, so some people are slow and not very polite but not everyone is in a rush and not everyone is perfect.

I think you sound selfish and thin the world revolves around you OP! You seem to be the one demanding that everyone stop what they are doing so that you can about your business from your post. Have some patience.

I was with a friend in a cafe which has now sadly had to close. It was lunch time and there was a long queue to order/pay at the till. The system was a bit silly in that the menu was on the desk so that you couldn't look at it unless you were at the front of the queue. But it was a nice little, family-owned cafe and the food was good when you got it!

My friend took absolutely ages going through all of the possible options with the lady who ran the cafe, in the most relaxed way possible, and didn't even apologise to the people behind us afterwards. This stuck in my mind as I thought she was being a bit rude, but didn't think it was for me to say anything. I could see the cafe owner was getting a bit panicky.

Do think she was being unreasonable? She is a very assertive, confident person, but I would have thought she'd have noticed there were people waiting!

Friday night DH and I decided we fancied a KFC, we sat in the drive through queue and in front was young lad in typical chavved up car (smurfs hanging from bumper etc). He places his order, drives 6ft from the machine and stops, despite having a further 15ft or so in front of him.

We can't reach the machine to speak, its about 3ft from our window. Idiot doesn't move. After a minute or two DH flashes him, he ignores us, but we realise he knows we are there because he's looking in his mirror. Another minute and another flash passes, we realise he's doing it on purpose. the girl on the machine is trying to take our order because their system is registering the front end of our car. In the end I lost my temper.

I got out of the car and marched round to his drivers window. I'm quite 'alternative' so he was faced with a rather angry woman with pierced face, dressed in black marching towards him. Oddly he refused to look at me and very quickly shot off around the drive though so we could order

Funny thing was, he got sent to the bay to wait for his food and a rather amused cashier handed us ours straight away. I did give him a little wave as we left

The shop mirror one is amazing - there are always people who will come and stand right in front of you/another person while they are using the mirror.

The other day I was about to get on a bus and a big fat man got on and was asking questions of the driver about where the bus goes. He then proceeded to step back into a quite small woman who was waiting to get on. Then he had a go at her from "walking into the back of me". There was space that he could have stepped into beside her if he was paying attention, plus she wouldn't necessarily have expected him to start moving backwards - he could easily have turned round and then walked off the bus. Needless to say I told him that he was being unreasonable and not the woman! I did mention his size above because I think he was used to using this to push people around and get his own way.

I arrived at the ATM machine at the same time as another woman on Saturday. I smiled and let her go first. At which point she spent ages rooting through her bag for her purse and then riffling through the purse for her card, while I stood there, card in hand, ready to go. It didn't seem to occur to her to just let me go ahead while she continued searching.

I also remember being on the aircoach in Dublin a few years ago. It was full and I sat in the last available seat. A few minutes later it stopped to let more people on, who had to stand. One girl walked down to where I was sitting, looked at me and said, to the person in the seat beside me who was her friend. 'Oh, did you not keep me a seat'.

Yanbu! Inconsiderate people drive me mad!

In our old flat we had a communal car park for residents. There was a beauticians a couple of doors down who told her customers to use our carpark. We got back from shopping to have a customer pull into the last car parking space. Dp explained it was our space but she said as there was no sign she wasn't moving so we had to park 2 streets away.

The funniest I've ever seen is in a cafe a man asked the staff to get some disabled ranks so the staff got into actin got the ramps and moved furniture to make the room more accessible for a wheelchair user. The mans wife then walked up the ramp with a pram

I push a side by side double buggy, usually with a bloody massive dog. That makes us a pretty wide load! I tuck into driveways etc when I can see we need to, but the number of people who walk two or three abreast straight at me is astonishing! I often can't get my buggy through the gaps in parked cars to get off the pavement, and even if I could why do I need to shove my family into the road just to stop other people having to take a 2 second pause in conversation? I can also ask my dog to tuck in behind my heel, but people then look disgusted that they've had to walk next to a large dog - I can't make him vanish much as i'd like to sometimes!

wannabe that is pretty funny. If she'd been on her own then I would certainly have thought she'd need some help, but surely between them they could have lifted the pram up the steps!

This is slightly off topic, but am reminded of people who always want special treatment. I was on a Ryanair or similar flight - sitting in the row behind the extra leg room seats as my dp (as he was then) had a broken ankle, so we were allowed on first but not allowed in the good seats. Two brothers then got on and grabbed the air hostess. "Me and my brother are both over six foot tall" says one "so we really need extra leg room". The air hostess points out that the extra leg room seats were all free and they could just sit down! They were so keen to get recognition of their tallness (such an achievement right?) they hadn't even bothered to look!

I walk straight at the three-abreasters, giving them the Death Stare. So far, they've always broken ranks before I've hit them

I had an interesting experience with a cyclist this morning... I was halfway across a pedestrian crossing, with my husband, my mum and another person, and realised there was a cyclist flying down the road towards us going faster than the cars. We hesitated, unsure if he would stop, and realising if he didn't he would hit us. Thankfully, he screeched to a halt and then shouted at us for making him slow down! Obviously didn't realise that he should really stop for pedestrians on a crossing...

Afternoon nap are you mayhap the woman at the pay and display or part of the family at the next table? That is the only possible explanation I can see for your thinking that Chandler is remotely out of line to be pissed off! From what s/he says I think s/he showed remarkable restraint fucking heaps more than I would have done

This thread has reminded me of one ages ago when I worked in a department store. After the final tanoy announcing the store was now closed, a woman swanned round with her daughter to use the changing room. I explained to her that it was now locked as the store is now closed and she took her DD around a corner to get her to try something on. I then told her that even if it fits once she's tried it on, she won't be able to buy it as the tills were all closed too. How rude to assume we will all wait around until you're finished your shopping, we've all got homes to go to!

I used to hate the entitled sods in the pub where I worked as a student. This was back in the days of 11pm closing. These men (and it always was men) would come in at 10.50 and order 3 pints and then sit until way after the 20 minute drinking up time with not a care that the staff were supposed to be all finished cleaning up by 11.30.

We did get our own back on one of them. He was still sitting with a pint and a half at 11.30 when the local police wandered past. How we laughed when they told him to leave.

It also drives me mad when someone has been standing at a bus stop for ages but only starts to root around for their purse/ticket when they're actually on the bus, forcing all the other passengers to sit and wait. (Not to mention traffic building up as cars wait for the bus to move off.

A few years ago I was in Aldi at the till, only a few bits. Behind me was an old woman, in front a young ish lad and in front of him a couple paying on card. The card machine was slow so the cashier, a young man, was chatting away to the couple while they waited.

The old woman behind was not impressed, she was huffing and puffing and eventually very rudely shouted at the lad to "do his bloody job and stop gossiping with his friends because she was already late for an appointment!" I turned around and told her it was hardly the cashiers fault the system was slow and that perhaps if her appointment was THAT important she should have left her shopping until after it. The cats bum face was a sight to behold.

Entire queue and cashier had heard this and it was remarkable how the cashier slowed down. The young lad in front of me took an age to find his wallet and when my turn came could I find the fiver I knew I had I asked DH who searched his wallet and then would you know it there it was in the back of my purse all along. Cashier was biting back a laugh, woman behind was getting so angry there was virtual steam.

I paid for my shopping, turned to her and said 'perhaps next time you wont be so damned rude and you might find the queue moves quicker'.

No I am not but neither do I think what I am doing is more important than the next person. All I can see from the OP posts is a lack of patience and that her need to get somewhere was some how far more important than the table trying to order what they wanted.

today an elderly lady barged me out if the way in the queue at morrisons!

I'm reading this and nodding profusely!

People who are oblivious make me sooooo angry,I have to grit my teeth all day!

In the supermarket, I hate when people stand in front of at least 30 items to look at one thing leaving people having to play twister around them to get to anything, I always politely stand a short distance from the isle I'm looking at so people can get past, only for a dimwit to stand directly in front of me.

Shopping trolleys in the middle of the isle

People walking in two's and annoyingly spaced apart so I can't get through with the buggy, I say excuse me loudly only to be met with a dirty look as if I should enjoy walking slowly behind them!

People who don't hold the door open for me so watch me struggle through with the buggy.

On the flipside my dp is annoyingly oblivious so many of times I spot something shocking like a granny wearing hot pants in the snow and try to discreetly tell him only to be met with a loud " Who? Where?"

feelinlucky I generally wear my hair in a big, bushy ponytail. When people queue too close I lean ever so slightly back (because that's as far as I need to) and look very quickly at something over THERE!! Swish! Face full of hair love? MOVE THE FUCK BACK THEN.

hee hee hee.

fast I have elbows that do similar when I look over there

One thing that really gets my goat is when I'm paying and the person behind is so far up my arse they are breathing down my neck. I've asked a few if they would like to pay for me in the past.

fast I have a giant handbag that often needs hoiking from my elbow onto my shoulder in an extravagant, sweeping, backwards style when I'm being queue-bothered.