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?

DS1 and I have been so lucky, this summer. Maybe it's because he only gives a shit about the coins, maps, interactive screens and the very odd fossil. And because he's skinny and weaves through bottlenecks and smaller children taking the whole thing more seriously, forcing me to chase him and bowl the bottleneck over.

They need bruised ankles, Alice.

Echo - DH spends half of his life moving out of people's way, as he perceives it.I'm so glad he's a less passive driver because he's an infuriating pedestrian! Just bloody walk in a straight line and never mind the numpties who stop for a conversation/ arse scratch in front of you, ffs! Particularly not when it means that you take me out every time you change direction without warning!

YANBU OP. People should be more aware of the space they're taking up and how that relates to others.

I have taught DS that Standing In A Doorway is punishable by severe beating. And Stopping In A Narrow Throughway is punishable by death.

I am a good mother.

Who has just returned from Edinburgh.

Oh god, I feel like this - but about DS1 he has to read every fucking sign about every single thing.

Oh for heaven sake you are being ridiculous.

if you didn't have the common sense to ask them to move so you could get passed then the only inconsiderate person was you OP.

The OP was in a queue of people who also wanted to get passed. Should she have said excuse me to all the others and pushed her way through?

I don't think it's ridiculous to expect others to use some common sense.

I dunno. I'm a big fan of speaking and wouldn't have hesitated to say excuse me, but so many people just won't. It's aggrieved silence until death.

I quite often speak up on buses, particularly when there's an impassable rammy at the front and plenty of space up the back. It pisses me off that people will be left standing at a bus stop because others have some bizarre obsession with cramming in around bus doors.

I don't give a shit what anybody thinks of me so I'm happy to say 'there's plenty of space up here!' But oh god the looks I get for doing it. Everybody either swivels their heads away and stares rigidly ahead, or openly huffs at me.

Britain doesn't do this very well. I'm sure Americans cope much better with finding friendly, shared solutions to crowd problems.

And spare a thought please, I live and work in Edinburgh. August is bad for my blood pressure.

can't remember where we were but also stuck in a mahoosive queue behind someone ostentatiously reading all the info

when people started to tut at the obstruction the mother announced in pained tones to her bored offspring "I really DO NOT understand why people come to exhibitions if they are not interested"

she was very lucky to get out alive imo!

Ps Talc, you win the thread :)

I had a similar experience up the Belfry in focking Brugges.

Yes, what a great idea. I will indeed queue up and pay cash for the privilege of experiencing extreme claustrophobia at high altitude, stuck in a tower the width of a wardrobe with my face directly against a be-chino'ed American backside.

I have only myself to blame.