To think if you're causing a bottleneck in a museum, then you hurry the friffing helck up?

[ChaosTrulyReigns]

Even if you want to read Every Single Farking Word from thr exhibit signs to Quennela?

Take it from me, she's having more fun sucking her artisan genderunspecific blanky in her bugabbo, intently watching the haribo being chuffed down by the family huffing behind, unable to pass your very public performance parenting.

Just get a wriggle on, dahling, we want to give everything a cursory glance, touch a few interactives and get to the Gift Shop to buy overpriced palstic toot. And fudge.

AIBU to think some level of awareness should be shown to others in tight, edifying spaces?

Cant you overtake her?

My DH is reads all the signs too

Yes, yabu.

I've paid into the museum too and if I want to read, as I do, Every Single Farking Word from the exhibit signs to Quennela, then go around and fast track to your plastic tat. It's not hard.

What Dunkling said. Pass me if there is space. If not, wait.

I read everything. I like to get my money's worth.

:o

"Excuse me, could we squeeze through? Thanks awfully."

• awully optional

It was tight! They were queueing bavk to the entrance desk because they were oblivious to the needs of other users.

Surely there's a COMPROMISE?

Fudge and tat waits fir no man.

'Hurry up!'

Fudge, tat and toot.

You should have shouted that at the back of her head in a LOUD voice.

"FUDGE TAT AND TOOT YOU SELFISH BASTARD! LET US GET TO IT!!!"

watching the haribo being chuffed down by the family huffing behind

When someone huffs and puffs behind me I go even slower.

When someone says, "Excuse me, please." or "May I get through?" I smile nicely and move out of their way.

Easy peasy. Take the Haribo out of your mouth and speak.

:)

It is the museums fault, they should arrange the exhibits better. - I was recently at a Museum (Mining museum in Edinburgh - v. interesting if you are into social history, social politics etc - recommend it highly) and there was a lot of reading matter, - which I wanted to read. But there was plenty of room for people to pass by who were only interested in the gift shop shit/cafe didn't want to read every word.

Confession - I did buy a mug in the gift shop, and the cafe was not your usual overpriced ripoff but very reasonable - I bought four cooked meals and a drink each for four of us for £22 - (No, I don't work for The Mining Museum )

Chaos, I agree. If you do want to read every single word (as I usually do) you make damn sure you aren't getting in the way. Same as if you are going to read every wine bottle in the aisle you don't park your trolley sideways and block the entire space stupid arsing 60 somethings with more time than sense or manners and yes I did ask them to excuse me and they huffed and ignored me .

Particularly hate audio guides for this reason. People all end up gawping in front of the same selected exhibits completely oblivious to the long line of people trying to move through the exhibition. Audio guides should be abolished and reading matter next to exhibits minimised: longer explanations can be included in leaflets or on boards at the beginning or end.

Fudge is available in shops, museum not necessary

I think some people are totally oblivious to the fact that they are causing an obstruction or they just don't care.

Chaos were they reading out loud to the tot?

I agree with KurriKurri - it's all about exhibition design. I couldn't see all the exhibits in the Vikings exhibition at the BM because people were crowded around the signs reading the information and the museum staff kept letting in more and more people at 20 minute intervals even when it was clear the first room hadn't even been cleared yet. However the Pompeii exhibition the previous year was organised completely differently, there was loads of room and you could go backwards and forwards in different directions rather than all being funnelled into a queue.

My tat of choice is the fridge magnet although I was seriously tempted by the cuddly Viking wolves.

i take a photo and read them later

We once went to the science museum in the hols. I don't care how detrimental it is for dc's education - we wont be doing that again

at detrimental.

I hate it when people get pushy in situations like that. I'm happy to move aside if asked politely, but I go to the museum because I like to look at the exhibits and read the information.

I don't think it's unreasonable if the person wants to read/ look at something in detail and the exhibit has been poorly laid out so there is a blockage.

However if someone has just parked themselves in an inconvenient spot they need to learn spacial awareness. Some idiot was stood in a narrow doorway at London aquarium and was getting really irate as people were bumping into him on their way past and started elbowing people back

"It was tight! They were queueing bavk to the entrance desk because they were oblivious to the needs of other users".

If they were oblivious then someone needed to speak to attract their attention. How about saying "excuse me please" or "excuse us please, I don't think anyone can get past you".

What I would absolutely not recommend saying is " sorry". When people substitute this for excuse me it is really annoying! What are you sorry for? Do you want me to move or are you just randomly apologising for existing!

Yes yes yes yes yes

And that's to you, Spanish family at the Edinburgh museum on the F1 car driving thing. There was 8 of you, 4 adults and 4 children. Each circuit took 3 minutes, plus all the faffing about to get in and out of the car that you did - so around 30 minutes in total maybe?

Did you not notice or care that a)there was a massive queue of kids waiting while you all hogged the ride, and b)that it was a kids ride really??

I hate it when people have no awareness of what's going on around them or of the bottleneck they are causing by fannying about at busy times.

Oh dear, I think I am guilty of saying "sorry" instead of "excuse me"

I actually find a loud "excuse me" can come across as really rude, or maybe I have had a few too many entitled people barking it at me recently.

In answer to your question, YANBU. Some people really lack self awareness and consideration of others