couples walking through shops holding hands

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Has anyone ever BARGED through the barrier they create and shouted STOP HOLDING HANDS FGS YOU ANNOYING PEOPLE?
( or perhaps something snappier?)

marks and spencer today - it was like british bloody bulldog, especially when the man LEADS the woman through the shops, swerving past racks of clothes, creating a four foot wide barrier

DH and I are hand holders. I love to have a bit of me touching a bit of him. He is the most marvelous thing to happen to me and I love him so much. Every second apart is a second too much. We also have a joint email account....

We are also consierate and move out of others way though.

Sorry you have all just vomited into your wine.

We are hand holders.

What pisses me off is a family of 3/4/5 who all hold hands in a big long line. It does my head in.

YABU. We've been married for 30 years and still hold hands.

Better than being stuck behind corpulent, slow people. Stay in bed with your pies!

I was on the promenade by the beach last weekend and there were two couples walking four abreast, someone came up behind them and tried to get past but they were weaving while walking so the person said excuse me. The abuse the individual got for not just walking around the four from the couples was incredible.

YABU.

DH and I like to make slow gentle love whilst in the butter and yogurts aisle. It looks like a three legged race and I dropped a crunch corner down his leg once, but we are married and can do what we like.

Always hold hands with DW. I adore her and don't give a toss what anyone thinks. I was with ex p for 10 years who was extremely closeted so would never show affection in public for fear of being outed. I found it really miserable.

DH and I hold hands a lot when we are out. We've been married over 20 years. I had no idea it caused other people so much stress! Won't be stopping it any time soon.

At the zoo the other day there was a couple sitting in the shade of a tree, FEEDING EACH OTHER STRAWBERRIES and full on slurp snogging. They were also holding hands in an annoying, intertwiny 'your hand is the best and most delicate hand I've ever seen, may washing up liquid never touch these fragile fingers' type way. I was sickened. ANYWAY, it was all alright in the end because my 15 month old dd decided to go for a run on the grass and ended up barging straight into them. She was shortly followed by a nosy mallard, who I think stole a strawberry.

I must live somewhere unromantic and practical. Rarely notice hand holding couples, and never obstructed by any, that's usually people with pushchairs and small children

Yabu by the way. I didn't say so because I thought I was in chat (which I rarely stray out of )

I don't mind seeing it, I just think it's bloody uncomfortable.

When I worked in retail? I once served a couple wearing those I love NY t shirts, that instead said I love him and I love her. They weren't being ironic either. That was a bit OTT.

Don't know why my comma became a question mark there I do, I have fat fingers

Public full on snogging is vile i had to look away once at a couple on a bench opposite me there was tongues

I'm a hand holder. Sorry if that offends you

JUST LOOK at the smuggery. "We've been married since the thirty years war and we still hold hands "

Afsik it's not age related.

And if you don't hold hands you're not in love /adored ?

Pu-lease

I hurdle through them.

If I asked nicely, would other MN-ers hold my hand? In public?

p.s. My DH wouldn't DREAM of it, unless there was a specific medical need.

And then he'd do it briskly.

No one is saying you HAVE to do it. Blimey. If you don't want to do it don't. No need to be so sneering about others.

I'm actually genuinely surprised at this thread.

We were watching the telly over the election period and noticed that all of the politicians HAD to walk along the road in slo-mo holding hands with their spouses. Who actually does that, we asked each other.

I've been married 20 years and I don't think I've held hands with DH since , hmm, our second date in about 1989. Tried it, felt like a 7 year old on a class trip, moved on.

I live in very central London and there is never enough time and space. I was actually going to start a thread last week about this as there were a couple of people at Waterloo in peak rush hour last week walking along holding hands. Why does that feel like a good idea?

I don't mean this to sound trite or anything, but what is the point of it? Why hold hands? Genuinely curious, I'm not a PDA lover myself.

Trite? Completely wrong word there. You know what I mean though.

Have honestly never ever thought of hand-holding couples as an obstruction, or annoying.

I DO however find slow walker-natterers on narrow pavements totally annoying. :-)