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AIBU?

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To want to murder everyone

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Sparklfairy · 21/12/2018 12:19

Made the mistake of going Xmas shopping today thinking it would be quieter than tomorrow. Disaster! So many people milling aimlessly around, walking sooo slowly, stopping stock still suddenly in front of me. I wrapped up warm and the shops are all so bloody hot! The whole experience has given me the rage and a twitchy eye

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The80sweregreat · 21/12/2018 16:08

It was t the shops today it was the roads which were gridlocked everywhere. No wonder people have food delivered ; although the vans doing the deliveries then park where they like and hold things up as well.
Our roads are not fit for purpose round here.

DoubleNegativePanda · 21/12/2018 16:10

This is why I try so hard to do all my shopping online. The older I get the less patience I have with other humans in general. Just get the fuck out of my way so I get out of here. Yes I realize the other people may feel the same way, but that change how I feel! On the outside I'm polite but in my head I'm going all axes and flame-throwers.

At the rate I'm going I'm going to be a hermit.

Louisalouise · 21/12/2018 16:11

YANBU! So many stupid people in the shops and on the roads. Roll on January when everywhere is blissfully quiet.

JudasPrudy · 21/12/2018 16:15

Hmmm. Might do a click and collect this year. I have an M&S voucher to use though and it's full of fuckwits every day of the year.

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Sparklfairy · 21/12/2018 16:16

Ah don't get me started on the roads. Got the bus home and my half hour journey took two hours! And two vehicles nearly collided with us in their haste to escape. Bloody nightmare.

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GinandGingerBeer · 21/12/2018 16:51

Can you add 'people who stop at the top of escalators to have a chat while oblivious to the chaos behind them' to your murderous list? Many thanks.

nomoremrsniceguy · 21/12/2018 16:54

Me too! Glad it's over. Local shops only for me on Christmas eve for bread, anything else I can do without. Its just too much like hard work.

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Sparklfairy · 21/12/2018 16:54

No because apparently those people are 'getting their bearings'

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Raspberry88 · 21/12/2018 17:00

Can you add 'people who stop at the top of escalators to have a chat while oblivious to the chaos behind them' to your murderous list? Many thanks.
I was just coming to say that! Then they look shocked that you bang into them. I almost had an argument at the top of a travelator once in Asda when my trolley went into the back of a woman. She was so annoyed and couldn't seem to understand that I literally can't stop if the trolley is being pulled along! Aaargh!

FourFuxxakes · 21/12/2018 17:07

Dh and I braved it today. Dh has been paid his Xmas wage and our vouchers arrived yesterday so it was the first day we've been able to afford anything. We sent the dc to breakfast club and drove to town straight from there and got there at around 8.25 a.m. At that point it was still almost empty so we got everything we needed, had breakfast and ran away before 10.15 a.m. and it was quite a nice, chilled affair.

After that though we went to the Iceland warehouse and then Tesco. OMG anyone would think the actual apocalypse was about to happen. When we left, the queue into Tesco car park was about a mile long

We have to go again tomorrow for the dc to choose what they're going to buy with their book vouchers from school that are only redeemable in store and only have a short date . We're going to get there by 8.30 a.m. again and be done and gone by mid-morning.

GeneandFred · 21/12/2018 17:25

I hear ya. It drives me crazy. No one says thank you anymore. You stop to let people past and they don't even bother to say thank you. Rude. And don't even get my started with spacial awareness. Wow. It's unreal.

RangeRider · 21/12/2018 17:26

We're going to get there by 8.30 a.m. again and be done and gone by mid-morning.
Just think how smug and smiley you'll be as you drive out of the car park, past the long queue of poor sad sods who are desperate to find a space! It's worth getting up early for

WTFIsAGleepglorp · 21/12/2018 17:30

The fellas remember when WH Smith used to be by the escalators.

Now the escalators have moved, there's a Debenhams and the WH Smiths is missing.

No cards. No wrapping paper. OMG.

Like lost penguins in their little bobble hats.

Truckingonandon · 21/12/2018 17:37

I naively went to Sainsbury's early ish today. It was like a zombie apocalypse. I loathe shopping at the best of times, so this really pushed me to the limits of my tolerance. Having a traffic incident on the way in with a STUPID FUCKING MAN tipped me to the edge of rage though and if I'd come across him in the baked beans aisle, I'd have rugby tackled him to the ground and shoved a tin of tomato soup up his arse 😠

YouBetterWORK · 21/12/2018 17:37

We tackled tesco today, instead of tomorrow when I'd expect carnage. Shopping zombies are the worst, I said to DH when it comes to Christmas food shopping we should all channel Santa...make a list, check it twice, then get the fucking fuck on with it

FourFuxxakes · 21/12/2018 18:16

Just think how smug and smiley you'll be as you drive out of the car park, past the long queue of poor sad sods who are desperate to find a space! It's worth getting up early for

That's my plan! Ordinarily I hate getting up and leaving the house in the cold and the dark but coming home again, knowing that it's all over and done with whilst everyone else is fighting their way through the crowds makes it all worth it!

Polarbearflavour · 21/12/2018 18:27

I think I’m pretty self aware. If I’m in a busy town centre I move out of the way, let people pass, hold doors open and if I have an umbrella I’m very careful.

Very rarely are people considerate back to me, I think I might start being more ruthless.

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Sparklfairy · 21/12/2018 19:41

Well dm isn't home yet so she's clearly avoiding having to do the food shop tonight

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tillytrotter1 · 21/12/2018 20:12

You sound like OH, he thinks that shops should open just for him, like they used to do for The Queen! He takes other people's presence in his space as a personal affront!

tillytrotter1 · 21/12/2018 20:16

Can you add 'people who stop at the top of escalators to have a chat while oblivious to the chaos behind them' to your murderous list? Many thanks.

Or have a convention, three or four couples and trolleys blocking the aisle while they 'have a chat'. That's what the cafe is for!

Doonewanker · 21/12/2018 22:06

You grumpy ol fecks.

Did the bulk of my Chrimbo shop in Tesco early afternoon. It was mayhem there but I felt like such a feckless, free soul without my 3 DC who were purposely left at home with DH that it was all quite a light hearted affair.

My squ-iff trolley was a quite a load to be reckoned with at the optimistic start and became a total bastard by the end but I tinkly laughed my way through it and made a number of witty comments to my fellow shoppers. They tickled back, of course. We all had such japes. 😁🎅

JaneJeffer · 21/12/2018 22:17

Jolly good Doone I'm sure you brightened up their day. I hope you stood in front of the turkeys for a good long chat with your fellow shoppers. Every little helps.

BottleOfJameson · 21/12/2018 22:19

I don’t understand why people get so upset with people stopping in front of them? No doubt you stop when you see something you want to look at. There will be people behind you then!

Surely you don't just suddenly stop in the middle of the street? I at least step to one side when there are people behind me.

CatnissEverdene · 21/12/2018 22:31

DH insisted we went to Aldi tonight to try to reduce the Ocado shop due Sunday night. The veg all went out of date on the 23rd and already looked like it had been sat there a month; the meat and cheese shelves looked bare and there were several people walking round who frankly smelt like they hadn't bathed since last Christmas. It was so bad it made me feel queasy. So we ended up spending about £80 mostly on booze and there is nothing to remove from Ocado..... that was two fucking hours of my life I won't get back.

Doonewanker · 21/12/2018 22:32

JaneJeffer - come on now, I wasn't there to make friends although I did make a number of wise points to my fellow shoppers. One was about to put a giant yule log in her trolley and (on my previous close inspection) they were all due to expire tomorrow 🙀. I also guided a poor gibbering wreck towards the diet lemonade section when in the appropriate ailse. She had clearly done so much there that, at the drinks end, she couldn't see the woods for the trees.

Anyway. I'm confident I'm on the nice list now. All you murderous bastards need to think about how you'll be rewarded next week.

Few bits in M&S tomorrow. I hope that will be as much fun.

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