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?

"Sorry for bothering you" - that's why people say sorry and not excuse me. Not something to get annoyed about really.

I'd just prefer it if they said SOMETHING. People who stand behind others waiting and seething then get snarky are annoying. It's highly possible that I just didn't NOTICE you back there. A simple "excuse me please" and I'll happily move to one side to let them through. But I am hardly going to move aside for you if I don't know you're there.

What's wrong with asking people to budge up rather than huffing over them reading the posters/putting their bags on seats/sitting in the aisle seat because they 'obviously' want both seats.

You have a voice. Use it. Politely. At the time.

Or maybe give the museum a miss if you're not keen on reading the info?!?!

I wasn't a huffer or a chuffed! Howdareya?

I was behind the huffer and chuffed, becoming more irkified by the second.

Chuffer. Darn tablet.

SirChenjin I've nearly seen punch ups over that F1 car.

My DS likes to make me go on the weighing thing that compares your weight to equivalent animal weight, in front of the crowds, the shame!

sisterofmercy - I went to the Pompeii exhibition at the BM and found it horrible. So overcrowded, tiny tiny writing near the exhibits so you had to go right up close to read it, people standing in front on the exhibits for ages Glad I didn't go the viking one now, sounds like more of the same.

• it must really depend on when you go to the BM whether you are lucky or not with the crowds.

Agree re: the 20 minute slots just getting more and more people inside an already overcrowded area - but otoh those special exhibits are expensive! So fair enough people want to stay and get their money's worth.

Viking exhibition was a nightmare,never again.My dc never saw a thing.We had adults in front of us all with audio stood right in front of every artefact for aaaaaaaaages listening to every last word.Never once let any children stand in front.Sadly after waiting a looooong time for each exhibition we had to move on every blardy time.

just get the kids to do a passive aggressive whine - "WHY won't those people MOVE mummy?"
or as has been said in the past "That lady's big bottom is in the way - I can't seeeeeeeeeeeee"

I have such lovely children really I do, really, honest

We tried saying excuse me but they couldn't hear.I think audio should be at a different time.All the labels were at hip level so you couldn't even read the blurb for each thing.Total waste of money.Staff were vile in the BM too.

This is why we don't go to any London museums/galleries anymore. Free, but all the good bits (stuff you can actually touch/do) massively overpriced and you'll que till doomsday.

Bristol Science Museum OTOH is fab.

Yes @Bristol is fab,ditto Exeter RAMM.

Shock horror at people wanting to look at exhibits they've paid to see, read all the info and erm, learn something!
Maybe museums should be more like swimming pools and have different lanes depending on how fast you want to go?!
Seriously though OP they probably would have moved if you'd said excuse me.

What about all those other people stood in a massive line behind who have also paid and would also like to look at the exhibits?

Why can't people just be a bit more aware of their surroundings?

As an adult I don't use headphones but I also hate children using interactive shite because they get over-excited.

What's so hard about reading and looking?

cuddly Viking wolves.

What? I want one and I don't even understand what it is.

You should have asked her if she'd seen the medieval pisspot on the very high shelf in the previous section. She'd have backtracked and you'd have been straight through to the sharpeners, impossible to wash cups with integral straws and fudge.

Gosh, inconsiderate woman - imagine actually going to a museum to learn about the exhibits!

If the exhibit is poorly laid out, just politely ask to pass, if you're desperate to get to the toilets/café/plastic rubbish.

Yes, people do get inconsiderate. I can have 8yo ds in his wheelchair and they will push right past him and stand in front of him so he can't see. Makes me want to just roll him over them and leave wheel tracks on their backs.

Try having a dd and a dh who have to read every single word on every single exhibit. I'm more of a grazer. We are not a museum compatible family.

Make sure you stay away from the dinosaur part of the NHM! You need a cattle prod to get round. I like museums but slow people and dawdlers pee me off!

I feel your pain Chaos.

I was involved in a gridlock situation on castle stairs a couple of weeks ago.

Large family on way down to subterranean cave area were causing the ascenders to reverse backwards down the stairs. I was sandwiched between teenagers from Coventry and my elderly father, whose stair technique is lacking at best on wide carpeted jobs at home, let alone the wrong way down spiral stone algae-covered medieval crumbling death traps.

I am surprised we are not still there, in a kind of embarrassed stand-off. The gift shop did make up for it though. My daughter, in her mid twenties, bought a foam helmet and I bought some castle-flavoured mint thins.

History and shite should come with a bloody health warning.

Everyone on this thread is hilarious - . I'm chortling with amusement. I also say 'Sorry' for excuse me and regularly infuriate DH by being so worried about pissing other museum visitors off that I hardly look at things properly before hustling him out of someone's way.
There must be a middle ground..!

Although my rather silly post doesn't acknowledge what Alice says. That is appalling behaviour. You should ram the bastards in the shins with the wheelchair's footrest and then apologise with a wide passive-aggressive grin as you glide past.