To not want someones hot breath on the back of my neck

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Is it so much to ask that I can queue in Boots with a reasonable amount of space around me and not have the guy behind me be so close his shopping bag touches my arse.

"Move forward then", I hear you say, but in doing this the bag-bum-toucher space invader also moves forward, thus creating a sardine situation as I am getting up close and personal with the poor lady in front of me, who thinks that I am now a space invader.

IABU to have turned round to say "Can you give me some space please?". Space invader looked at me like I'd just kicked him in the nuts and looked very indignant, but he did stop moving forward. I felt a bit bad but then decided I may have just saved another unwilling victim from his shopping bag bum touchery.

I talk to myself. I don't have neck breathers

Yanbu!

I hate this too. I freak out when people get too close and invade my personal space. I'm usually ok if they're quite close as sometimes it's unavoidable and they also have someone almost up their own arse too.
I either leave the queue or sometimes I'll say to the whole queue something jokey or a simple ' can we please all back up a little'
doesn't always work though.

Dh thinks I am very unreasonable because I don't want him breathing on me in bed at night. I have no objection to him breathing - I just wish he would do it facing away from me - that's not unreasonable is it?

A woman did this in an airport queue to me recently. I have long hair, and when I swept if back to stop it getting trapped under my holdall shoulder straps, she tutted and sighed because it went in her face. Every time I moved forward, she would move so that she was actually jostling me. So I did it more. This culminated in her having a go at me for "keeping flicking my hair" right there in the airport queue.

I've never had so many sympathetic looks from total strangers at one time.

YABVVVVU.

"Would you mind stepping back a bit please? Last person who got that close to my backside at least bought me dinner first"

A woman did this in an airport queue to me recently. I have long hair, and when I swept if back to stop it getting trapped under my holdall shoulder straps, she tutted and sighed because it went in her face. Every time I moved forward, she would move so that she was actually jostling me. So I did it more. This culminated in her having a go at me for "keeping flicking my hair" right there in the airport queue.

Hilarious.

I recall years ago being in the queue for a carvery, me, DH and the two kids. Woman behind DH was literally in his back. Sadly he didn't have the hair to flick but after a few swift spins around etc she still stood closer still.
At this point DH stopped dead, the kids and I spaced ourselves out so there was ample room for DH to move forwards but he stayed exactly where he was. First she tried repeatedly walking into him, this strengthened his resolve and when the queue moved forward that bit more he remained stock still.
By this point she was seething and red in the face with annoyance, of course we thought it was hilarious. None of us were getting to the food any quicker so the whole exercise was really just pointless. In the end he held her about half way down the roped barrier until I was being served, then very slowly sauntered forwards to order his food.

Oh Loki, your husband sounds like mine! Always trying to teach random strangers lessons.

Truffle Stubborn as a bloody mule.
It was the fact that she literally kept barging into his back and shoving him to try and make him move that riled him. Thats the point he'll always dig his heels in.

Got into a lift with DH the other day, lots of space, two women followed and one of them stood about an inch from me. Not in an aggressive way, she was talking animatedly about something to her friend, just oblivious. She didn't appear to be visually challenged. We were the only four in the lift as the doors shut so it wasn't like there was a vast rush of people. I was already standing in a corner so nowhere else to go. Most odd.

This gives me the rage! The best thing I've managed to say is "I'm not wearing any perfume so stop trying to smell my neck". Did the job though - the rest of the queue looked at him like he was a wrong un and he made a point of giving me a good few feet of space

How do space invaders not know, or care, that they're space invaders?Why the need to stand so close, how doesn't it bother them? I used to work with someone who would siddle (SP?) up close in his when he wanted to speak to me so our elbows were literally touching. Again I'd move, but so would he and one day I was actually against the wall!

I seem to attract odd'uns like that. My favourite, if I am wearing the right clothing is to turn my coat pickets inside out and ask if there is anything in there they would like.

SDTG yanbu I hate DP breathing on me in bed I regularly tell him to stop breathing

I work in a shop it's unbelievable how many people get right in your face to ask something, I have to take a step back don't care if I look rude. I really hate people invading my personal space

French people are terrible for this. I used to live in France and it drove me menkul.

Queue.

Shuffle forward

Repeat until rage sets in

The worst incident of this kind I've had was in Asia, where in a few places it's normal to harry people this way in queues. I had a woman who was literally pressed against the length of my body from behind. It felt incredibly intimate. I am not sure why, but my instinct was to move my body as if we were dirty dancing or something, sort of a slow wiggle. She quickly moved away, and I like to think she never did it again.

HiddenHome, is this your rucksack?

www.funny-potato.com/huge-backpack.html

Fantastic idea, spatchcock.

Next time it happens, OP, just back right up against the offender, and let out a throaty sigh of carnal pleasure.

How do space invaders not know, or care, that they're space invaders?Why the need to stand so close, how doesn't it bother them?
This is something I would really love to know! Why does it not occur to the space invader that they are standing too close? What do they think will happen if they leave a centimetre of space available between them and whoever is in front of them, in a queue?
I admit I sometimes enjoy moving very slightly forward, and watch them move to close the (non existent) gap, then I move slightly again.
I have, once or twice, asked someone, politely, to give me space, particularly if they are standing over me when I am entering my PIN, for example.

Lol at huge rucksack

Yes, YABU!

You should've swung your basket into his balls.

Let out a throaty sigh of carnal pleasure

Ah hah. That's amazing.

Working on a salesfloor I have backed up half the lenth of the shop to escape the customer before hitting the wall. My colleagues thought it was hilarious although they did rescue me at the end.
I had a colleague who was slightly under 5ft. We had a regular who smelt as though he never washed his armpits which was unfortunate as they were the same height as her nose and he would stand in just the wrong place.
She was his favourite though