People are unbelievably inconsiderate...or thick or both?

[Fieldsandgrasses]

Had a lovely afternoon apart from I was watching a play next to a woman wearing a wide-rimmed hat. OK, didn't affect me in that I could still see, but what about the people behind her? Isn't it common sense not to wear a hat in those circumstances?

Then I went to the bank and had to wait for ages while cashiers explained to customers that they couldn't fulfil their requests. Surely, most over the counter operations are quite simple and if it is not possible, or your request is unintelligible and the cashier has no idea what is needed, you live away from the counter to let other people be served?

How hard can these things be? Urgh, feel better now I have said that. I just think if you go through life being reasonably thoughtful and intelligent about the way you go about things, life is so much easier for everyone?

What about the able bodied who use the disabled toilets?

That's just been discussed, haystack. What do you want to add?

It's ok, just noticed marhav did include disability toilet pinchers--the entitled.

People who come to my workplace when we're closed, try the door, find it's locked, and proceed to hammer on the glass expecting to be let in. I am usually there alone in this situation, and I keep the door locked because we keep controlled drugs on the premises and I don't fancy getting stabbed for a few bottles of ketamine, so it's really quite intimidating when people do this. I will occasionally open the door if I recognise the clients and they always sound really shocked when I tell them we're closed... why the fuck did you think the door was locked, blinds all down and lights off???

To be fair, when I worked in my local library for a year, serving customers came first. If you were doing something else and a customer was waiting, you served them - even if what you were doing was for a customer elsewhere eg looking for a book for a reservation for someone in another library.

See I don't disagree with customers being served first (where practical, if I was the person waiting for you to do something I wouldn't be impressed to be made to wait for you to finish what I needed while you served half a dozen people who were "after" me in the "queue" just because they were physically there), if there wasn't already someone (or often two people) serving already and this person didn't want to wait in the 2 or 3 person queue that, being the cigarette/lottery kiosk, is usually gone in less than a minute. They wanted to bypass waiting at all by coming to someone completely different. And even when those of us at customer services do help out serving the kiosk queue, we pull the next person down from the existing queue, we don't just let people effectively "queue jump" by coming directly to us.

It annoys me too when people busy themselves with paperwork or stocking shelves or whatever when there's a queue. Sorry.

Not everyone who works in a shop has serving customers as their job. Just because the work in the store doesn't mean they are trained on a checkout any more than I am trained to use the warehouse equipment just because it is used in the same store I work in.

That's not to say some people won't do anything not to go on a till and serve customers but some people genuinely either aren't trained on the tills, if they're shop floor shelf stackers, or they have other things to do that are just as important

Today for example, I was working on the customer service desk and I had a constant stream of customers coming to me from around 1pm until 4:30 when I finally had nobody at my desk needing immediate attention ... the kisok queue was long but there were two people serving. I could have helped out their department, but instead I used the 15 uninterrupted minutes I had to catch up on my own job - imputting damages/faults in our system, updating customer queries, answering emails, answering phonecalls, imputting lost and found items, all things that are important parts of my job but had had to wait all afternoon untill I wasn't busy. Customers in the queue were getting served, they just had to wait a couple of minutes.

While there may be someone whose need is so immediate that he/she uses the disabled toilet we all know that is not the case for 99/100. The latter are in the same despicable group as the disabled and family bay parkers, those who occupy two parking spaces........you know the rest.

I wish I'd parked across 2 spaces (as far away as possible) as a matter of course. My car has so many door dings from selfish bastards.

If heavily and obviously pregnant and needing a seat I might be tempted to have a fake start of labour and stagger towards the entitled man sitting down near me who I know has already seen me, and start doubling over and groaning. Bet that would get him out of his bloody seat!

Having been on MN many years I have learnt a few lessons! Whilst in queue for ladies at the airport the person behind nudged me towards the free disabled cubicle. "Oh, no," says I, "A disabled person might come along." The person behind shoved me aside and went in, saying, "Are you fucking insane ?"

Perhaps it's MNetters who are out of step with the world...

There seems to be a new trend for putting your headlights on full beam just as you get to the car coming the other way as obviously they arent going to be blinded at all cos you cant wait 20 seconds to get past them to put your lights back up This has happened so many times in last couple of weeks its like a new Highway Code instruction!
WTAF?

I am sure that the human race is actually regressing not evolving these days.

RhodaBull I'm being dumb but why are they out of step in the world? Surely that person was being a dick if they weren't disabled and using the disabled loo?

I used the disabled loo once because it was also the only baby changing area, I was in there about two minutes and someone started hammering on the door like crazy. I quickly finished changing my son and ran out with him half naked thinking someone desperately needed the loo. Turned out it was just another mum wanting to change her baby (didn't look like a poonami situation either).

There seems to be a new trend for putting your headlights on full beam

also when following someone - if I am in front of you, you don't need your full beam on! However, I didn't realise that in some cars, the full beam can come on automatically like the lights generally or the windscreen wipers. I think people just forget. Though the fact that I keep holding my hand in front of my rear view mirror might be a clue that you are blinding me! I really wish that I could display a notice at the back of my car to say " please switch your full beam off".

Sometimes irony does not make it through the internet, HaveNoSocks.

Oh, I think some people drive with full beam just because they can see better that way and damn anyone else on the road, including pedestrians. With drivers we enter a whole special sphere of lack of consideration.

For those many MNetters who never read the Daily Mail take a gander at these lovely considerate people: I'm really wishing I could erase the images from my retina as they made me feel quite sick...

www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-4025420/Holding-blow-dolls-mile-high-groping-stripping-underwear-passenger-shaming-images-ll-leave-reaching-sick-bag.html

Oh, I think some people drive with full beam just because they can see better that way and damn anyone else on the road, including pedestrians.

Cyclists are just as bad with their high intensity strobe effect front lights too! Blind everyone in sight, whether vehicles, pedestrians or other cyclists.

Cyclists are just as bad with their high intensity strobe effect front lights too! Blind everyone in sight, whether vehicles, pedestrians or other cyclists.

I frequently have to raise my arm off the handle bar and shield my eyes when some twatty man in Lycra (it's always a man in Lycra) has a super obnoxiously bright light that isn't angled downwards. Especially bad on the cycle super highway where you are riding alongside the other direction of bikes. Often then see said twatty Lycra man squeeze down the side of a lorry...

Oh yes -those bloody cycle lights. The other day I was turning right out of drive with a hill start onto a 60 mph road in the dark with no street lights. You can't see that far for the lane you are pulling into because of a dip. But I could see light approaching so I waited ...and waited and waited...just when I thought it must be someone broken down or something -not moving - and was going to pull out a single beam appeared in the centre of the lane...the light was so bright I couldn't see what it was attached too - I thought it must be a motorcycle or possibly a car with only one headlight working (on full beam) so I waited - it was going really slowly but I thought maybe they were worried I was going to pull out in front of them ...so I waited. Then I realised it was a bike - was going to pull out but a couple of cars started coming the other way -so I ended up sat behind it - and its several sets of rear lights -some flashing.
I was stuck behind it for a while as cars were coming towards me/bendy road (and then I worry someone is going to smash in the back of me). Eventually I got a chance to overtake and as I pulled in made the mistake of checking in my passenger wing mirror double checking I was well past and was temporarily blinded. Are those lights even legal?

(I get on those roads you really need to be seen - although I think you are suicidal using a bike on those roads -even in the day time anyway. And there are quite a few cycle routes that avoid the main roads (on cycle paths) -they are a bit longer but definitely safer.)

Makes a change from people complaining cyclists don't have lights, I guess. You can't win sometimes...

DD1's school is surrounded by sheltered accommodation for the aged. It is in a cul-de-sac. Cul-de-sac is a restricted parking zone. Residents only. Outside the cul-de-sac, about 100m down the road is a huge village hall car park (space for about 80 cars) which parents can park in if needed. Also a fair bit of unrestricted street parking in nearby streets.

Almost every day the head teacher has to email the parents reminding them not to park in the cul-de-sac, that when they do they often park in the residents.

Today is the Xmas nativity play. The cul-de-sac is full of parents cars. At the end of the show the head teacher advises the parents that someone has parked one of the residents in (again) and she needed to get to a medical appointment. She tried to come down to the school office to request the parent be located (and beaten with a stick) only to slip over and break her leg and possibly hip. And all because some tosser is far too lazy to park 100m away.

I have the rage. I am seriously considering having some of those "you park like a cunt" stickers printed and plastering them all over the windows of offending drivers the next time i take the kids to school.

That's outrageous Mia.

The Range the other week, akin to the 7th Circle of Hell at this time of year. Huge queues everywhere. In front of me is a woman with 3 of those lidded plastic storage boxes in her trolley. She looks at me, studies the 3 items in my hands and carries on.
She gets to the front, opens the lidded boxes and each contains what must be fucking dozens of individual Christmas decorations. I was gobsmacked.
Pointless moving at this point as queues were huge so I just kind of stood there whilst she admired each sodding bauble before handing it to the cashier. Between this she'd look at me and grin.

Finally after 15 minutes or so of this she did what I can only describe as the mumsnet tinkly laugh followed by 'Oh you should have chosen another till!' tee hee. Goady cow. My reply was something along the lines of 'well had you any manners you'd have let me through with my 3 little items rather that stand there gloating but hey ho, Merry Christmas'.
Apparently I was a 'miserable cow' DH did that hissy thing he does when he doesn't want to get involved and told me to 'leave it'.

I'd paid for my 3 little things and was actually out of the door before she'd finished lovingly caressing her bloody baubles behind the checkout. I did comment that I hoped all the needles fell off her tree.

Mia that is terrible. The school needs to work with the residents though on these big occasions where people park terribly - the HT/staff should be stood out there with fluoro jackets on directing people away from the cul de sac. I know it is an added burden on them, but it is the school creating the issue and needs to be visible in solving it, not just paying lip service through newsletters.

Hope the school will name & shame the car, and organise the kids to do something nice and neighbourly for the poor resident.

it is the school creating the issue

No it's not. It's the dickhead parents!

Disneyland Paris this year. waiting on the edge of the pavement for the Dreams night time show.
Next to us were about 5 people (young adults and children) in wheelchairs with their carers who had been there for as long as we had(bloody ages to get a good view)
Family come up just as the show starts and proceeds to lift their two children up and put them over the top of the wheelchairs and plonk them down in front of them so none of the wheelchair users could now see.
I pointed out how bloody rude this was , they looked completely blank and said well we have children?!?! and turned their backs and ignored it.
Carer was saying how she was still amazed at how many people treated them as invisible.

You're right, HeCan't, but I still think the school needs to be visible in addressing it. As you say, if they're dickhead parkers they won't stop doing it unless they are publicly shamed into it.