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.

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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?!

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