To think I met some of the nastiest people ever today?

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I was at a shopping centre today with my mum and DP. As the escalator wasn’t working, the alternative was a large flight of steep stairs or the lift. As my mum suffers with a heart condition that leaves her breathless easily, we went in the lift.

As the doors of the lift began to close, a young couple with a pushchair hastily tried to get on. As DP put him arm up to stop the doors closing, the woman of the two angrily said “Why are you letting ‘t doors close on me! Fucking idiot,”. DP actually APOLOGISED (despite the fact he had tried to stop the doors from shutting). The woman went on, aggressively, “You shouldn’t even be in the lift, there’s stairs over there!”. My mum calmly said “I have a heart condition, I can’t manage the stairs,”. But the woman and her partner just kept on, insisting that we shouldn’t be in the lift, that we were idiots, blah blah. My mum turned to me and said that stress isn’t good for her either (she was getting really worked up by this abuse). The man overheard her and said “Yeah, stress doesn’t do me good, either!”. As if the absolute buffoon was the one who should be stressed.

On and on they went, the entire time we were in the lift (which felt like an eternity). They just wouldn’t stop. I just wanted them pack it in; it was upsetting me, it was upsetting my mum. I said “shut up,” exasperated, as we were about to get out the lift. They didn’t respond to that.

Ahh, just writing that all out again has me shaking and feeling upset. I just can’t understand how and why people like that exist. Just nastiness and aggression for no reason at all.

Feel free to share any similar stories! I know MNetters have a few.

I think the "great" British public are getting nastier. I work in a complaints type role (phone, letter, email, not face to face) and the abuse I often get is something else! People just will not take any responsibility for their actions.

One woman actually made me cry and I am pretty tough especially at work!

The ones who are the worst often have the least to complain about IMO.

I am actively looking for another job

@SootySueandSweeptoo
The nasty little wank stain and, That's a huge insult to wank stains.
Would he have said that to you if you a 6ft tall 6ft wide body builder with tattoos as apose to being a heavily pregnant women.

Some people are just born with chips on their shoulders OP.

Imagine living their life.

I always shrug my shoulders and count my blessings tbh.

A chip!!!!. That's a huge understatement.
More like a field of potato's

I hate stuff like this it makes me really sad. I’m sorry you went through that OP

Ooh picklerick what happens when you explode? I fantasise about giving nasty people a mouthful back, but I'm too scared of getting stabbed!

There are many nasty pieces of work in the world but many lovely ones ... the nasty ones make all the noise 😡

Basically people are just cowards and take it out on shop assistants etc because they are weak and pathetic

There are some total and utter loons about the streets nowadays.

My mum says I seem to attract them.

I don't. It's happened only a few times to me but places like MN have made me realise it's beginning an epidemic.

A idiot learner scooter rider nearly got under our wheels and flicked the middle finger ... I pleaded with hubby to ignore him ... which he did .::::
He then pulled up again and started banging on hubbys window .... idiot hubby could have easily just pushed him off with his hands and driven off
Pathetic little weasel but I was in melt down
Never had anybody do that before and my husband and his family will take on the whole world ... the little idiot was vying for a punch up... driving like an idiot when our vehicle would have squashed his fat head

Sorry reliving it made me angry .::: and I didn’t mean idiot hubby 🤣
Meant to put a comma there lol
I won’t engage in road rage ( that rhymes lol )
Hubby usually goes crazy but i was pleading to leave it and thank goodness he did

I’m not actually even that sure, all I ever say is “don’t you start with me” or something like that, and they back down but Mum says my whole demeanour changes and I look like I’m about to murder someone.

I’m always asked how I’ve got away with being punched, and I don’t know. I must look harder than I am 😂

Pure trash

Ah OP, it would have taken me a long time to calm down after something like that. They sound incredibly stupid to me. Only people with very low IQ would behave like this.

I would have fantasised about causing immense pain to them afterwards

There is no accounting for some people. Poor you to have such a bad experience. Sadly there are rude, ignorant people everywhere.

My dh was run over in a car park recently as the driver was too busy looking for a space to see he was crossing in front of her. He is disabled so couldn’t get away and went right over her bonnet.

She then got out of her car and swore at him for being in the way when she was trying to park whilst he was still lying on the ground and trying to reach his walking stick!

If you see them again in lift just give them a wink..Good luck.. stay strong.

Same thing happened to my mum in a lift, she was due to have her hip replaced and couldn't manage the stairs and some idiot got in the lift and started being rude to my mum saying how she should f*ing walk up the stairs. She ignored him, besides he was with his partner and child in a buggy so in theory he could've walked up the stairs too silly idiot!

Slightly different lift situation for me , I worked in a building that had a bar on each floor , we used a really old goods lift to take cases of stock from the cellar to the relevant bar , because it was a old lift it did not have automatic doors on it you had to close them yourself .
It was a real pain in the ass if someone had left them open on another floor as you had to leg it up / down the stairs to shut the doors so you could use it .
On one evening about a hour before the bar was due to open ( this was also a music venue ) I was taking stock upstairs a group of lads called the lift to the top ( fourth ) floor and left it open so I went up to close the door they then sent it down to the 1st floor before I could get to it , I could hear them laughing and joking about it , they were also talking about the band they were going to see , it was the one I was stocking the bar for.
I eventually after about half a hour managed to get the lift and get the stock upstairs .
I made sure I was working on the bar that evening and when I saw the lads I went to serve them one asked for a couple of cans of Bud and two bottles of Smirnoff ice I very loudly said we could not sell him that as some arse had disabled the lift so we could not get the stock up . About 6 big fellas behind them got right stroppy because they couldn't have their fav beer .
I have never seen someone scarper so fast , it was very funny and the blokes got served with the beer they wanted so gave me a good tip .

WIN WIN

@ethelfleda The things I fantasised happening to them afterwards are too evil to share...

I’m a peaceful person. If you hurt me and apologise, I let things go. I’m one of those “you don’t know what happened to them today”, love peace and unity blah blah BUT try the aggro on me and I am going to have you. I go from zero to 100 in a nanosecond.
Most people are cowards. I stood up to yobs in the middle of the a busy road. He got out of his car to threaten me. I cornered another idiot in a lift, after having a go at me for delaying “his lift” as I was getting to the floor below. I went so close to his face, I made sure I covered him in my spit while talking. He just crouch down. I guess having crazy eyes help but damn, don’t push my fucking buttons. Even DH said, that I can be Very scary when threaten.

Care in the Community. At one time they would have been locked away in mental health asylums, now they are free to roam. After my brief time in mental health care, there are thousands of very mentally unwell people in the community who are a risk to others.

There has been a recent news story about a father on a train being stabbed to death by a very sick man. www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/surrey-train-murder-darren-pencille-lee-pomeroy-murder-trial-court-a9002291.html%3famp

I really do think it best not to engage with aggressive people. Walk away.

Those kind of people are sadly becoming less of a minority now ... All the aggression is as a result of being mainly behind closed doors, having screen time and not integrating into society with any social skills... You also only have to look at how aggressive people are when they are behind the wheel of a car these days to understand how there are now many who believe if they arrive first at any destination they are entitled to spend the rest of the day being an obnoxious arrogant twat to the rest of the world!!! ... They don't deserve an apology although I guess you should feel sorry for them for how they behave which to them is perfectly normal in their uncivilised bubble!

God that sounds awful idve been crying after that I cant stand confrontation...what a horrible person!!

Worst thing that's happend to me was when I first started working. Was with an agency and was working in a shared house for people with learning disabilities on a short contract. On my first day I had a really nasty woman on with me who basically said nothing to me and gave me a list of cleaning jobs. She went out to the shop and when she came back it turned out I'd pressed the wrong button on the washing machine. She came into the utility room saw this, and just screamed in my face 'cant you even work a washing machine you little fucking retard'... I was so young and I just didnt know how to react so I just didnt say anything. I didnt even tell anyone how she had behaved I just never went back to that placement. I cried all the way home on the bus. I still think about that woman and what must've been going on with her to be that horrific to someone for no real reason.

I've had people be more horrible to me and say nastier things but I class that as the worst because it was so unexpected.... you dont expect to be spoken to like that at work by a colleague. I used to work in a bar and we had some shitty customers saying horrible creepy stuff but it doesnt have the same impact because you sort of expect it sometimes. I've had drunk guys be horrible on the street and in clubs too as per... but none of it comes close to how shocked I was at that woman just suddenly screaming in my face.

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