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?

We've had people at DLP try and lift their kids over us and buggies and onto our toddler's laps in buggies during parades etc. They promptly get booted back. I feel sorry for the kids but if their feckless parents can't be arsed to wait for ages in a spot then I'm not bailing them out!

skilledintheheartofnothing - I listen to a Disneyworld podcast and the host goes bananas about this. People wait for hours to watch a parade, and then extremely entitled people barge in front because they have children - as if everyone else doesn't! Other children have been waiting two hours to have other more special children stand in front of them. And as for barging in front of wheelchairs - well!

Actually Disneyworld is the best place in the world... for managing queue jumpers - or in fact anyone who flouts the rules. They have thought of everything and if people think up a new way of cheating then Disney deals with the issue straightaway.

Not so at DLP. :(. It's not European to wait your turn.

Could someone not have asked a member of staff to deal with the DLP situation and escort the pushy family elsewhere?

I live in a semi detached house on a fairly quiet street. There is space outside it for two cars to park between my driveway and my neighbours driveway, but there is a streetlight right in the middle of the space. So many people park directly under the light meaning you can only get one car in. Infuriating. One neighbour left his car there for three weeks once, I was incandescent with rage by the time he moved it. It's just common sense, park two feet further forward and two folk can get in!

There do seem to be more entitled people out and about at the moment, though I really think the holiday season doesn't help.

I cant cope with idiots who stop in shop doorways to have a chat, so you have to squeeze past.

Ive noticed loads of people on the way home from work who drive with their full beam on ALL the time, its really dangerous, our roads have no streetlights

And cyclists with ridiculously bright lights, I understand you need to be seen but having a million candle light on your bike doesn't help!!

Oh and cyclists that don't use cycle lanes, cycle lanes cost the tax payer millions to install, yet its very rare you see a cyclist in one, they'd rather weave their way through heavy traffic with either no lights or something resembling the sun attached to the front of their bike.

Oooh that was therapeutic!

Could someone not have asked a member of staff to deal with the DLP situation and escort the pushy family elsewhere?

They're few and far between, sadly.

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

Oh we are. I had a customer come up to me and say "Shoes". No, other words needed as I'm psychic and have just discovered fire.

I've noticed loads of people on the way home from work who drive with their full beam on ALL the time, its really dangerous, our roads have no streetlights

This comes up a lot on here and yet I've never encountered it - is a regional thing or could people be mistaken?

I'm in Northern Ireland was its only been in recent years, I think it's more housing being built in the boom in villages so people from the big smoke are moving out. Or maybe people having to travel further for work since the crash. It's infuriating whatever the reason.

On the way home I had one behind me the whole way home! Grrr.

Conversely there are those who drive along at top speed in thick fog/driving rain with no lights on at all. From my observations it's generally youngish women with phoned clamped to ear (or worse txting) who give you the finger if you gesticulate at them.

I cant cope with idiots who stop in shop doorways to have a chat, so you have to squeeze past.

Or on narrow footpaths. I walk on our local canal footpath a lot. It irritates the hell out of me when others expect you to walk on the grass verge/banking to allow them to pass on the footpath itself - usually couples of groups of 3 walking side by side, or having stopped for a chat, or those with dogs on long leads blocking the entire path as the dog frollicks from side to side. I get so fed up of it I now just stop and stand there on the path itself while they go into single file, move to one side or the other, or actually control their blasted dog on a rope.

Agree with all of these. But the time has come to ACT!!!!!!! Mumsnetters, we should all call out these ignorant people on their appalling behaviour. So, if you see a pregnant woman having to stand on the tube, SPEAK to the idiot who is sitting in the pregnant/disabled seat and demand they let her sit down. I've done this and (despite my username) I'm quite a shy person. As I get older I am getting braver. If these rude people do not know how to behave we should not be polite to them; we should start ganging up on them.

How awful of you. Do you have psychic insight? A medical degree? Can you tell if the healthy looking young man has Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome? If the fit young woman is experiencing a severe case of labyrinthitis? If the middle aged man in a suit is getting over knee surgery? Is that overweight woman fat or pregnant?

You've no right to gang up on anyone over this, let alone play judge. Instead of being a bully, work to inspire kindness and situational awareness!

But giving everyone the MN benefit of the doubt encourages rude behaviour. I would bet anything you like that 99.9% of people sitting in a disabled seat at any one time do not have hidden disabilities. I myself suffer from labyrinthitis. You really do not require a disabled seat. Two arms wrapped round the pole will do!

How is it rude to ask? If the person in the priority seat actually needs it all they need to do is say so.

Too many people will sit whilst watching or pretending not to watch another person who is struggling.

It isn't rude to ask, nicely. It's rude to demand as one poster put it.

How awful of you. Do you have psychic insight? A medical degree? Can you tell if the healthy looking young man has Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome? If the fit young woman is experiencing a severe case of labyrinthitis? If the middle aged man in a suit is getting over knee surgery? Is that overweight woman fat or pregnant?

And so it begins . . . .

Instead of being a bully, work to inspire kindness and situational awareness!

I would have thought that that is what asking someone to give up their seat to a person who is obviously pregnant/disabled/very elderly is. doing.

Again.

asking someone to give up a seat is fine.

Deciding for yourself that the person in the seat doesn't need it, assuming that they are being rude and demanding they give the seat up is not. Neither is ganging up on someone.