To think this was really weird?

[cherrryontop]

Got in a lift in a shop this morning and a couple had just walked in before me.

The woman pressed their floor number then stood infront of the buttons.

I said excuse me and gestured towards the buttons and she said "already pressed it".

I said I know but you pressed floor 1 and I need to get out at floor G.

She shrugged at me, and refused to move over.

The man said "the lady wants to press her floor"

The woman said "well she can press it when we get out then"

Some very difficult people in this world...

Had she ever been in a lift before!?

That is completely strange.

As I say to my daughter, the world is full of assholes. Not all but some.

Hmm does the lift have a few different floors? I remember being in a lift and it going up for the lady who came in after me even though I pressed down first and I had to go all the way up the the top car park then all the way back to the lower ground which is what I wanted. Mayb e something like tha t? It's weird but I'm just trying to think of a reason for her behavior.

Definitely weird, what a complete twit!

She was going down 1 floor and I was going down 2 floors, so I wanted to press it incase it shot back up again if somebody on a higher floor called it!
I told her she was ridiculous but she just shrugged and told me to wait.

couldn't even get annoyed because it was hilariously weird!

That is the defenition of difficult.

I had a similar woman stop in front of me halfway across a road when I had DS in a pram. It was a crowded crossing and I said excuse me as I couldn’t manoeuvre left or right to get passed her. She was looking at a map. In the middle of the road!

The man with her said “The lady wants to get passed” and she didn’t move. The countdown was going 5, 4, 3... and I said “You’ve got to get out of the way!” quite loudly (new mum with pfb) and only then did she move. The man told her to apologise at the other side and she did but only sulkily lol!

She was the female equivalent of a manbaby!

That is also bizarre frasier!

Some people are just really awkward, must be very miserable...

Yes it is weird. I would have reached round here to press the buttons, no matter how awkward it was

I’d have just pressed it.

Makes you wonder whether people who display this sort of dickish behaviour, also do the same in other areas of life. Work for example!

The other day, I was coming home from work in the car and stopped at a pedestrian crossing to let a mum and her about 6 year old son cross. Coming the other way, lights and sirens on, was an ambulance. The woman daundered across and only belatedly realised there was an ambulance because the child pointed it out and slowed down! She flipped the bird to the ambo as well. She was a terrific role model for her child. the ambo driver looked mightily hacked off.

I’d have walked over and reached my arm behind.
I must have anger issues and hormones today because just reading that has made my heart race faster and want to experience it for you, just so I can put her in her place. Vicarious anger

What a weirdo. I do wonder sometimes if these sort of odd things are the signs of early dementia,not saying that lightly or as a blanket "one size fits all" thing but I remember my Grandad getting like this year's before he was diagnosed. Funny little stubborn moments that everyone else thought was weird. Nothing to do with age either as he was about 50 when that started. Strange world! Maybe she was just a cunt though nothing to do with illness.

She had her arse pressed against the buttons or I would've

I pressed the call button to get in the lift at the supermarket once. It arrived, the doors opened and an elderly man glared at me and said ‘you pressed it too soon’. Then the doors closed and the lift disappeared.

Apparently I have missed out on some kind of lift etiquette where everyone else knows when no one else is in there...

squirrel

There are some utter twonks in this world.

You met someone who Cannot Possibly Be Wrong.

My entire family are like that

Sometimes I do hope that pedestrians have no diving licence - they stop in the middle of the path, turn without warning, stop where there is a narrowing of the way. Yesterday i walked into town and had to squeeze past a couple with a pram who had stopped in the narrowest point of the path - a lampost, a BT box, a traffic light post, a wall..... all in the same 4foot of space. I squeezed between the lamppost and wall but not everyone could. Just stopped for a chat. Why they cant do that a bit further where there's masses of space, I don't know.
People do it in Tesco too - they find a shelf-stacking trolley parked up, and they will choose that aisle, that exact spot to have a chat.

@Ansumpasty

Vicarious anger

I enjoy vicarious anger all the time, on mumsnet 😜

I have a horrible feeling that I'd have shouldered her out of the way. I used to be a lovely person, but now I'm quite aggressive. I think "would that person do that to a six-foot man covered in tattoos?". If the answer is No I go in all guns blazing.

Posts like these just make me realise how little patience I have for stupid people.

I honestly would have shouted at her to get the fuck out of my way or I’ll end up knocking her over. I don’t swear that often but I sometimes find that that is the only way I can make people like her realise that whilst others might, I certainly won’t be putting up with their bullshit.

I would have snapped if DS wasn’t with me. He usually is so I inwardly seeth these days lol!

Alone though, I think I would have ranted about her holding me against my will 😲😬

I had something similar, cider, a couple of years ago with a couple with a pram. But in the small gap that they'd left there was an enormous puddle. Had I been wearing sensible footwear I would have just walked through it, but I had flip-flops on and was concerned that I might slip over and the puddle was too large to jump over - either way I thought I could end up on my arse! So I was looking at the puddle trying to work out how to negotiate it, or wait for them to move on, I glanced up to see if they were on the move and, at that point, they decided to turn back the way we'd all come, which meant I could then walk on the dry bit of pavement they'd been standing on. The woman yelled at me "you could have said excuse me". I was so flabbergasted that I only managed to stammer out "sorry? I wasn't glaring at you" - she yelled again and I just didn't get the chance to explain that it wasn't so much about them stopping, but my concern about the puddle and my flip-flops!

Glad it's not just me finding this very odd and rude!