Twatty aggressive walkers in ikea

[MrsChrisPratt]

I know, I know, ikea on a bh weekend is an error, but we were passing and needed teaspoons according to DH

AIBU that if you want to zoom around pushing through tiny gaps and getting in people's faces like you are the busiest, most important person in the world, you shouldn't be going to ikea on a BH weekend? And if you do go, you have to accept that you're going to be bimbling along behind the world's slowest walkers with your ears being assaulted by screamy whining kids?

Nb. I am neither the aggressive walker, bumbler or owner of whiney children, just pissed off at being shoved out the way by Ms. Self Important.

I'm sorry, I was a slow walker there last week. I was ill, my mum is disabled and my sister was carrying her baby. We did try to keep out of everyone's way but had a few people barging past.

What you need in Ikea is a child who starts seriously projectile vomiting a third of the way round. Clears the crowds like parting the Red Sea.

It's the people who take the entire family that piss me off- parents, grandparents plus 3 children who are having a tantrum cos they don't want to be there. Leave them at home with one of the adults! You don't all need to go together to choose a coffee table/spoons/whatever tat. Then they walk 4 abreast so you can't get past.

Then the ditherers and the stop and talk in the aislers. Knobs the lot of em.

Love ikea. Hate other people

Last time we went to ikea, we walked all round, went to the restaurant, then DD wanted to go and pick up something she'd seen and been mulling over. As it was much much nearer to go back rather than start all round again, we walked the wrong way. It became very apparent by the glares and people pushing into us that we had committed the Ikea First Deadly Sin.

I won't be doing that again in a hurry!

Ikea on a bank holiday? You were brave! I can just about tolerate it on a wet Wednesday morning in termtime

Try doing IKEA on a mobility scooter! People step in front of you/stop dead with no notice (scooters do NOT immediately stop, they have a roll-on distance)/reach over you as if you're not there/deny you the chance to get close enough to actually LOOK at something/tut at you as if you're an inconvenience to them because you 'take up too much space'/use the Disabled facilities 'because it's easier and you were ok waiting, right?'. A trip to IKEA is a day out for me but, jaysus, it's an endurance at times!

YABU for going to IKEA for teaspoons on a bank holiday weekend.

I totally believe that IKEA Rage exists. Too scary, I don't go there anymore.

IKEA is the fifth circle of hell and the only thing worse than the wrathful and the sullen are the dawdlers and the "nice wee day out" drifters who wander along, mouths open, frequently stopping in packs of 6 or more, across an entire aisle, to inspect a multipack of tea lights.

I am not allowed to direct a trolley in IKEA as the temptation to use it as a weapon is so very great. My dad is not allowed on the shop floor at all due to previous anger management insufficiencies and must instead huff in the cafe, watching the planes land and scowling at the rest of the damned.

DH and my mum could happily spend hours in the place. Freaks.

I've never been to IKEA

I once fainted in ikea. When I came round, I found I was an obstruction in the lighting department (I have a sensitivity to too much light, I think that's why I fainted) because I had collapsed spread-eagled on the main thoroughfare bit. I'd been shopping alone but now there were staff members and interested strangers gawping down at me encircling me and everyone else was having to step past the throng. Quite the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Ihateithere

You lucky sod!

Gusty - surely fainting in IKEA should entitle you to free tea lights for life or something? In the way that Mothercare used to give women a free pram if they actually dropped their sprog in the rusk aisle.

I would get in touch with the manager and ask about it.

I'm an ikea zoomer. I used to enjoy a slow bimble round there picking up another couple of hundred tea lights but now I have no free time and a toddler I want to use all the shortcuts and get round it all ASAP.

I went with a couple of friends a few weeks ago - we all split up because we wanted different things.

One of my friends met me outside with "please don't ever leave me alone in there again"

Early morning is also good - you get free coffee if you get there before opening.

This time of year - full of parents and soon to be at uni teens, teens all have a look of, "I wanted things for uni, I didn't want things you would like at uni" and parents all looking indulgently at their child and putting teapots and travel irons in the trolly.