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?

My commute goes past a secondary school; lots of parents drop their little darlings as close to the school entrance as possible. Parents park on both sides of the road and one morning last week, no-one could move either up or down the road until one of the lazy and inconsiderate droppers-off moved. An inconsiderate driver then drove up the road on the pavement - and at speed. When I got to work I called the police. There are cctv cameras up outside the school - I hope the footage is clear enough to identify the vehicle.

kids in the pushchair and suitcase in each hand. You're not entitled to help just because you've got children. There are other ways to get to the door of the airport... taxi maybe?

I think my DS would say that I often used to say to him when waiting at tills, coffee queues etc " this is not a playground " in my most haughty manner - I'm going to be in Sloane Square tomorrow weirdly enough perhaps I will be needed ?

me gripping onto piles with both hands

Yes, pregnancy can be shit like that :o

For my own, the one where, repeatedly, it seems, you have 10-15 minutes to wait for your bus, so find a wide, empty slot at the back of the bus station until the bus before your own has filled. Then some dick walks along and stands directly in front of you. It doesn't matter that there's a 3' gap either side of you - they have to stand about 6' in front of your nose.

I've been pleasantly surprised on the tube in terms of getting a seat. I've been recently diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis and although you can't see anything wrong with me I find standing on a moving train incredibly difficult. I just say loudly 'can someone please give me their seat' and someone always has. Restored a little of my faith in humanity.

People who stop their cars on the blind bend outside my house to come and knock on the door to ask me where a certain camping site is - it's in the next village 3 miles away, our house name is nothing like theirs, plus we dont have 300 acres of land for camping. Why they pick on my house, why they don't look for the fucking road sign that points to where it is I'll never know. Arseholes

Had to go to dentist yesterday to have a tooth out. The dentist is up some stairs which I can manage but I use a cane. I know I can request the downstairs dentist because I have a brain but I like the bit of exercise. Had tooth out, came slowly down the stairs, noticed another patient (woman, late thirties) staring at me. Moved slowly past her, cane in one hand, dh on other and great big cotton wool swab sticking out of the side of my mouth. Her "can you manage those stairs because you can request downstairs you know". Me "mmm...mmm" thumb up. Her "because I can't, i've requested downstairs". Me "mmm...mmm" thumb up, trying to edge away. Her "had a fall in town". Me "mmm...mmm" thumb down. Her "good job my son wasn't with me". By now, dh gently pulling me and all in the waiting room giving me sympathetic looks and probably relieved it's not them, because I just can't get away "mmm...mmm...mmm". Now with my back to her and still slowly moving away "you should ask for downstairs". "mmm...mmm...mmm". Dh led me to chair at the other side of the waiting room and she continued talking with me going "mmm...mmm" over my shoulder. In the end, I just had to be rude and ignore her while dh helped me on with coat etc. WTAF!!

I'm amazed at the amount of people who have been told to fuck off. Did they actually say 'fuck off' or just get lost?

It just seems so excessive

I live next to a primary school went to pull out of my own drive way only to find a parent had parked her car in my drive so I can't get out so off i go into the school and asked her to remove her car from my property only to be told I'm setting my child I'll move when I'm done took her 40 mins wtf

BeaLola and Francis Crawford - I suspect you would both have an absolute field day. Don't forget to pop into Peter Jones - I witnessed a woman in there once, completely engrossed in her phone, allowing her toddler to push his (humongous) buggy around the china dept unsupervised. I couldn't tear my eyes away, it was like watching a car crash unfold as he careered towards the Wedgwood completely unchecked .

Mobile phone 'dawdlers' are a nightmare.

Face stuck into their phone, clueless about the world around them, dawdling down the street with everyone having to dodge round them. And then drifting over the road, still with face stuck into their screen.

I don't wish harm on anyone, but it's a near thing...

Agree about people walking around glued to their phones and not watching what they're doing. I almost walked into someone the other day who just stopped in the middle of the street to check a text. It's almost as if they can't go five minutes without looking at their phone.

Another pet hate of mine is people who sit right next to you on buses despite there being loads of seats. Also the people who open the windows on the bus when it is freezing cold outside and don't ask if anyone minds.

francis I was referring to this post:
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 quite agree that backpacks don't need their own seat, but there is no need to speak like that to a person who is sitting in the priority seat!

I was in a small cinema a few weeks ago. A family of 4 came in late, around 20 minutes in the film so already disturbing the viewers. Next they got out what sounded like a gigantic bag of crips, RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE, lets pass them down the line....MORE FUCKING RUSTLING. I know lets all have a can of fizzy drink....SLURP SLURP SLURP. I swear it was so rude and loud the man and woman in front of us started laughing in disbelief. WTF are people thinking of?!

People who sit on box junctions

People in the car behind who lean on their horn because I'm (correctly) not entering the box junction because my exit is blocked

Going back a few pages here but just the other day I was coming down a road - same thing everyone moving into the box junctions - when I was at the head of the lights (mine on red) I counted no less than 8 cars in the box who were turning right from the junction to my left. This meant when my light went green I couldn't move (people behind went mental at me - I'm a learner too so imagine that added to their rage).

Then when I'd eventually got passed the lights there was another box- small one meant for the (busy) road to the left. Anyway I stopped at the box and the man behind me drove into the lane to my right (right turn lane - empty) and moved in front of me preventing all the traffic from the road in the left moving out.

I'm considering not bothering driving now!! Especially as I was told this is normal.

Hunter
Ditto people on buses who shut the windows when it's sweltering hot without asking if anyone minds. Then we not only nearly expire from heat but have to endure the delightful aroma of sweaty bodies and the particularly rancid smelling snack some unsociable bastard is choosing to consume.

For some reason, people think I like to watch supermarket shelves and try and join in.

As in, I will be in the aisle and have stood back a bit so I can scan the shelves left-right-up-down (i.e. I am visibly, obviously looking for something), and on more than one occasion, people come and stand RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!

Heavily pregnant at Euro Disney, standing on one of their packed buses holding a toddler, as very little space,when two people with back packs squeezed in as the doors were closing, one turned their back to me in order to use the back pack to push and pushed and pushed me even though there's nowhere to go, (bus moving at this point) I loudly said 'for Gods sake!' And was tutted by parents sitting down with their toddler on a seat next to them (could have held them on their laps) 😡😡

OMG, I was just thinking of writing a post yesterday after my journey home.

People who get off the train and either carry on reading their book or watching something on their ipad, wtf, I need to get past you, can you not wait!!
People walking towards you in a group or a couple holding hands and won't move out of the way and actually bump into you or their bag hits you, are you freighted of letting go in case the other one runs away, you can let go of their arm/hand for me to get past surely!!

Adults riding bikes on pavements and then ringing their bell for you to get our of the way!
People who stop dead in front of you to either look at their phone or have a chat
People who stop at the top/bottom of escalators, get out of the way!
People who sit in the middle of a seat of three on the train and push you off so they can sit down, I was here first.
People who take up two seats on the train so no-one sits next to them.
I got on a train once where a mother and daughter and taken up four seats for them and their bags, it was quite a full train and I asked them to move their bags so I could sit down, the answer was well where do you want me to move my bags to? I said 'I don't care but if you like you can stand up with them and let four people sit down' did not go down very well but I did sit!

Or perhaps it is me who is inconsiderate or getting too old for commuting!

Agreed Punk. Also the buses who have heaters on during hot weather. Why? There's just no need for it. Also I was at a cinema where you pay a lot of money for the experience, you get food and drinks brought to you and posh leather seats and a lady and her son arrived and had food. At a dramatic point she starts rustling a bag of sweets. I kept giving her the death stare and hissed shush at her in the end as she was spoiling the film for every one who had paid 17 pound a ticket.

I haven't read the whole thread because it's making me slightly twitchy. But yes to the drivers who don't feel the need to indicate (why on earth would they, in their self-importance, need to tell lesser beings what they intend to do?!), and yes to the people who conduct long, faffy queries about massively complicated train journeys when they aren't actually travelling and there's a huge queue of commuters behind them desperate to get the next train AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH

My own personal bugbear is the idiots who like to conduct social chit-chat right in the entrance to our local Waitrose, carefully positioning 2 trolleys so nobody can get in or indeed out without squeezing past them, and remain blissfully oblivious to the chaos they cause.

WTF is wrong with some people?

I nearly missed a professional exam because someone decided that the best time to make extensive, pedantic enquiries about the best way to travel from where she lived to another part of the country IN THREE MONTHS' TIME was at 08.15 on a Monday morning. The queue behind her was immense, and each time we thought she was done, she'd go "but can you check if it's cheaper via Walton on the Naze?" and we'd start all over again. I was four people behind her, and had to ask the poor folk ahead of me if I could go first (luckily they were hugely sympathetic).

Also a big shout out to my neighbour, who insists on parking with his rear bumper lined up with his gatepost, regardless of where the other cares on the street are parked. Very often if he'd just pull forward two or three feet there'd be room for an extra car. It's busy city street with no off-road parking so space are at a premium.