Beach etiquette...?

[AtHomeDadGlos]

Right. At the beach the other day, lovely weather. Quite full and filling up but lots of spare room.

Someone comes and pitches their wind break and two fuck off huge umbrellas two feet in front of us, ruinning our view.

Even worse, they pitched it around some of our stuff - we had to ask them to pass it to us.

This isn't on right? Thankfully we were leaving within the hour as our daughter needed a nap, so we did the British thing and didn't say anything.

[Spangles1963]

Who was it that said 'Hell is other people'? I second this.

[Spangles1963]

MrsOverTheRoad So who would get priority for the wall side if it's someone with a pushchair and a disabled person (on crutches) walking towards each other?!

[Spangles1963]

Mother - this is exactly what happens to me. If I'm waiting for my DD to catch me up,I try to stand in a quite spot. Ha ha no such thing. I swear if I was standing in front of a blank,brick wall someone would feel the need to stop and admire it.

[Roussette]

I get this all the time and I want someone to come on here and explain why!

On a pretty deserted beach (not UK) I set up chair etc. Nearest person to the right possibly 20-30 metres. Nearest to the left same. A couple came and sat 4 paces away from me! Why? What is it with people?? Thing is I had a coolbox, umbrella, chair etc and couldn't be arsed to move but I glared. A lot.

Me the same Funny. Before you could reserve cinema seats, I used to go to the cinema on my own sometimes. Ditto. Empty cinema. Someone sits next but one to me. Go away!

[Spangles1963]

I will never forget the time,quite a few years ago when I was staying at Selsey Bill with my then DH and DD. We had settled ourselves down on the beach when a woman walked past with a labrador,off the lead. The dog ran over to where we were and squatted about 4 feet from where we were sitting and did a huge shit. We were like . She just walked off, unconcerned. I couldn't believe it. Yes,we did move!

[Funnyface1]

I'm always where someone wants to be, mainly in shops, no matter how hard I try.

I once had to review an obscure film when I was at uni. It was crap and I knew it would be so I took myself off to see it during the day, alone.

I literally had the whole cinema to myself until 2 minutes before the film started when a couple came in and say directly behind me. It was ridiculous. I got up and sat in a whole other column of seats.

[MsHarry]

Kids running past within an inch of your towel/sunbed on a sandy beach and dusting you with sand at the same time. Grrrrr!

[AtHomeDadGlos]

Someone walked over my beach mat today to get to where they were going. Yes I was sitting on it, and no they didn't need to as could've gone round.

Fucking prick.

[Frazzledmum123]

Ooh me me, I can answer the car question!! I, for reasons I am not entirely sure of, seem to find it so much easier to park next to a car on my left, rather than an empty space. It's like the car is some sort of marker and I subconsciously know when to turn in based on where the car is. I sort of panic in an empty car park and I end up parking over 2 spots. However, since having kids I have corrected this and now seek out the spaces instead.
The beach thing though I don't get. And I hate people playing any form of ball game on the beach, actually considering taking something to pop any that come near me next time

[SherbrookeFosterer]

Self awareness should be on the National Curriculum.

People like this are the sort who put their feet on train seats & eat stinky food on the underground!

[user1483875094]

Enfuriating, but I can beat that...! I lived in Denmark for some years, on a beautiful coast. In the summer the Germans simply invade the beaches and come in their droves. Often, we were gob-smacked, because the men would spend several hours moving "huge" rocks and boulders to set out a "square" which apparently "belonged to them" and these squares would be quite huge!!! If we, or any of our friends or families who lived their "dared" to cross these marked out territories, we would be yelled at, and sworn at!

[camtt]

last year on a crowded beach in Barcelona, I was overseeing two DCs in the water when I found myself surrounded - top, front and sides - by a large group of young Spanish people. Lovely young women all bronzed and in teeny bikinis, flicking their hair, loud young men prentending to josh each other but really vying for the girls attention. There I was, forty something with my ugly hat, big white kaftan-type thing over my unrevealing swimsuit and fat white legs. I had clearly got so old and ugly that I'd become entirely invisible!

[coffeespoonslife]

I'm with you, OP. When we were kids my Dad called these people bodysnatchers. Loudly.

[MrsJAMMFraser]

I was on a virtually empty beach with toddler DS. A man appeared carrying a baby in a pushchair and plonked it down just in front of us. I thought he was just having a rest but then the rest of the huge party of adults and children arrived. They were practically flicking their rugs (and sand) in our faces as they spread them out.

I was utterly mystified. But being British I resisted the urge to commit violence with the parasol spike, and meekly collected our things and moved further down the beach.

[morningconstitutional2017]

Yes, it's odd isn't it that you can be sitting on a large and quiet beach with bags of space and some people come and plonk themselves much too near? It's as if they are scared to be too far away from other folks. If you want peace and quiet you're the ones who must move. And to block your view - that's simply inconsiderate. The human race never ceases to astonish me.

[corlan]

You get this is swimming pools. 3 empty roped off lanes, but you had to come and swim in my lane. Why???????????

[Housemum]

DH did that at the outlet shopping place at Swindon - v proud of new car we'd had all of 4 days (secondhand but v nice and low mileage posh car). So he parked right at the back of the car park, away from the footpath and the entrance. Went back to car in pissing rain and there was a scuzzy blue car next to it. Only when we got home and it was dry did we see a scrape of blue on the bumper

[DagenhamRoundhouse]

You get this in car parks. My Dad pointed it out to me eons ago. You can park in a remote corner with nobody nearby and guaranteed someone will park next to you within 10 minutes! Try it.

[rightwhine]

I just wonder what on earth runs through these peoples minds.

[queenofthemountains]

Are you at Porthmeor in St Ives? Its unbelievable the fortresses people build there with their windbreaks. It is an amazing beach though.

[catsaresomucheasier2]

Freaked out, not framed out. Wtf is wrong with this pigging phone tonight 😡

[catsaresomucheasier2]

I got ridiculously pissed off and anxious at this post, because it's exactly the kind of thing that happens to me on a beach, or anywhere else where I want to be on my own. I'd have framed out at the offending idiots. It's like when you go to a public loo, and there are like 20 other loos, all empty. You go to end one, them some MORON who either wants to listen to your bowel movements or wants you to listen to theirs, goes I the stall next to you. Gid, I'm getting wound up just thinking about it 😄😄😄😄

[OlennasWimple]

This what people who sit next to you on the bus, even though there are plenty of completely empty seats, do when they go on holiday

[Lovemusic33]

I love the beach and go a lot but I hate it in the summer due to people invading my personal space, kicking sand as they walk past and being too noisy. A couple years ago we went to a very popular beach in Dorset, my dd who is autistic stepped on a child's sand castle ( not really done on purpose), the kids spent the rest of the afternoon chucking sand and my dd and making rude comments and I got very upset, in the end we packed up and left.

This week we were on a beach in Wales and a man decided to get changed in the middle of the beach, was totally naked with his manhood on show. It's funny how people behave on the beach compared to other public places

[Staceypreston32]

Some idiots did this to us in Cornwall last summer so it must be a cornish thing