To hate faffers everywhere!

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Why are there so many faffers -buying cinema tickets, going to the Post office etc - someone in front always has to have an issue and take twice as long as they should, drivers taking 10 minutes to get in a space 4 times the size of their car, people taking forever over a simple food order - I could go on!

Faff is such a great word,

Faff

Faffing

Faffer

Just don't use the cashpoint at our local Co-op. It does the fucking faffing for you.

I now know why it never has a queue, it's quicker to go into the store, do your shopping and get cash back, than stand there being asked to please wait after every button press.

Cambridge Park and Ride you have to faff to make the most of the £500 it costs you to go 2 miles
If they make it anymore expensive it will be cheaper to get a parking ticket!

freshly I'm with you. Faffing drives me mad.

I hate the ticket machines in cinemas as they no longer just do pre-booked ticket collection. Oh no. They now allow people to stand at the front of a very long queue on a Saturday as they click though to a film, read the description, consult lengthily with partner, click through to the seats, browse around the seats, consult with partner, don't like the options so try another film. Same thing x3. I am certain I was not the only person wanting to punch them.

DH is a faffer too. I am used to performing the 'can we go now' chorus as I stand by the open front door.

YABU. Just chillax.

There's still one day left of half term. I shall spend it Faffing, just to annoy half-term parents (and I'm not even a retiree yet) Mwahahaha

Hotel buffets are the worst place in the world if you get annoyed with faffers. Especially at breakfast.

Arrgh YADNBU, infact, just reading this thread has made me rage on your behalf haha.

I HATE when people faff at supermarket checkouts so you're kept waiting ages (either the customer in front, or the person on the till is slow). And then, when it's your go, they normally rush you so fast you can't keep up with packing! It's like, er no, you just held me up so now you can wait for ME instead since you're getting my money, gaaah!

Other faffings that wind me up include telling my DM that we need to meet/leave/do something by a certain time, and instead of getting ready, she will do things like hoover, sort washing, or fanny about putting dogs in the garden for a wee - basically, as much as she can do and fit in before the event she is always late for!

I started a thread once about faffing in the Ladies. It was educational. Moin I do agree about the word, but I want to pronounce faffer as "faffeur", with a very looong second syllable. C'est tres chic.

Haha cassie my mum does the coat faffing too.

People who faff about with their Oyster on the ticket gates ought to be banned from the Tube.

HATE FAFFERS! Drives me nuts...

Oh yes Lomega when you are trying to leave for something with someone and you are halfway out the door and in the car and all ready to go yet 10 minutes later they are still finding shoes, kids etc

yy to faffing in public toilets - why take ten minutes?! What are you doing in there?!

Also people who wait ten minutes for the bus and then get their change out after they've boarded and asked for their ticket. This gives me the rage.

Is faffing in the toilets not just a case of nice sit down, out with phone and on MN or face book while taking your time

We live smack bang in the middle of an area where they teach learner drivers. I appreciate that we've all been there & that you need to be patient. However after 9 years & hours spent behind various learners I'm beginning to twitch.

YY.

People who are slow and don't hold anyone up - fine.

But, pet hates:

• People who amble along, taking up the whole pavement, then stop to take a picture. Then get cross that you didn't wait ten minutes for them to finish.

• People who get their shopping, pester the cashier with chatter, then look shocked they're required to find a card to pay with.

I was in Cambridge station a couple of weekends ago, and there was a very long queue for the self-service tickets. As I waited it became clear that two women were not letting anyone else use on machine, as they couldn't work it. One of them kept going off to ask for help, but as the queue for ticket booths was nearly as long, she was asked to wait her turn. People were getting increasingly jittery waiting for tickets (there aren't many machines so if one is out of order it's a big delay). Just before I got my ticket, someone lost their temper and asked these women to go queue instead of taking up a machine, and they argued. I grabbed my ticket, ran for the train and missed it as it pulled out of the station.

I absoutely know I should feel bad that I saw someone slap one of the women in the face and a big tussle broke out ... but I don't!

Oooh Lizzie is the thread still there? I need to know!!

My DH can be a bit of a leaving the house faffer, honestly every morning, it's like he's off to war or something, the farewell and what not

YANBU. This is my pet hate. I am the absolute opposite of a faffer.

If I need to pee, I'm in there, pee, wipe, out.

If I'm leaving a party, I'll say "goodbye everyone", then go.

I can't bear these faffing freaks that cause buffet bottlenecks and rustle about in the toilet for 10 minutes having a piss when there is a queue of 25 people outside.

I have a good amount of tolerance for elderly faffers, puts me to mind of my granny taking a photo. She took longer than it did in Victorian times to take a snap, all your muscles would seize up as you waited

I think of myself as a champion faffer faffeur - like that! I could faff for England. Like, here I am, faffing around on MN when there's lots of important stuff I should be getting on with.

But the thing about queuing and not being ready when you get to the front of the queue does my head in! Cashpoints, buses - you're waiting, at the bus stop, for 5 minutes (if you're lucky!) Bus arrives, you rudely push on in front of me get on, THEN start rooting around in your pockets and your bag for your Oyster card, holding up everyone else in the queue, who has had the foresight to get their Oystercard out during the time they were waiting at the bus stop.

Loos, though - how are some people so quick? I don't think I'm doing anything unnecessary so what are you NOT doing that I am? Do you go commando? Do you not wipe? Obv certain times of month take longer than others but I'm never the quickest.

Moin I thought it was in chat, but no! Here it is: loo faff thread

Went on holiday with a female relative last year. Had my 3 year old with me.

Getting out in the morning? No problem, eat breakfast, have a wee, put on suncream & clothes, chick stuff in bag. Leave.

Not so for our fellow holiday maker. It took her forever to get out. No idea why.

People who stand at bus stops (could have been there 10 minutes) and wait until the bus arrives to look for their pass/change.

Arses.

I hate it when you've been standing in a line at immigration for hours, and the faffers go up to the counters and only then start to get their passports out. What did they do all that time in the line?