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!