What is wrong with these people? Genuine question

[GreenTomatoes2014]

Some people are clearly displaying their worst sides in this crisis. Absolutely NO self-awareness whatsoever. Across the age ranges too. Some very recent examples:

Young couple in furious debate with staff outside Sainsbury's for not being allowed to go in together, despite arriving hand-in-hand so clearly from same household. Lots of shouting/swearing/vicious words from said couple. Poor member of staff, I felt really bad for her. In front of

Older lady in the park, maybe late 60's, early 70's, looked very well-to-do, walked past a dad with his two young children who were very close to him and sneered, "Kids, taking up all the path." Path was extremely wide, she didn't even have to leave it to pass him. Again, felt very sad to hear such aggression, felt bad for the dad.

Couple - middle aged, man pushing his partner in a wheelchair. Midday, outside supermarket. Man ignored the queue of otherwise patient people, went straight up to the front, tried to gain immediate entry. Was halted by a member of staff who told him there was one queue. Man argued the point, staff member reiterated "there's one queue." Man started mouthing off, "rude bastard," as he wheeled his equally thwarted partner away - to rejoin - yes, the back of the queue like EVERYBODY ELSE.

Older woman, possibly late 70's, outraged that a man with vulnerabilities was permitted into the co-op ahead of her. Again, quite middle-class lady - she said loudly and angrily to my friend "Well, aren't you going to say anything?"

W the actual F is wrong with people like this? Why do they feel it is their privilege to behave so badly when others are showing their strength and behaving so considerately and positively. Are they mentally ill? Are they stupid? Are they just nasty fuckers? They clearly give 0 fucks about anyone else to start with. Shocking.

AIBU to expect that a crisis like this should be seen as a chance to display our best selves? I have no respect for people like this!

Sorry meant to finish sentence at the end of second paragraph! Should have read "in front of a lot of queuing people!"

Because ... people are fed up, impatient, running out of good will ???
Or they are just total twankers. I don’t know 🤷‍♀️.

Asking if they are “mentally ill” was poor judgment on your part, you can join the ranks of your own thread.

Why have you applied different standards for two examples of queue jumping?

Some of them will be twats, some of them will be otherwise ordinary people under a great deal of pressure due to stress and uncertainty.

Not mentally ill. Just rude entitled fuckwits. They have always been like this but lockdown has bought out their frustrations and real characteres.

Some people are clearly displaying their worst sides in this crisis. Absolutely NO self-awareness whatsoever.

Why do they feel it is their privilege to behave so badly when others are showing their strength and behaving so considerately and positively. Are they mentally ill? Are they stupid? Are they just nasty fuckers?

I reckon you summed up your own thread there op. No self awareness at all.

Stupid, nasty and mentally ill do not belong in the same category.

Making notes about what other people are doing to moan about it on the internet and making offensive comments about mental illness isn't displaying your 'best self' is it?

I am struggling with the people who are clearly ignoring the rules and still having friends round for parties, bbqs and piss ups in the garden under the pretence or 'we are keeping 2m apart'. Assuming that's true at all times which is unlikely, what if you need the loo? Just don't do it. Stop trying to find ways around it.

But at the other end of the twat scale are the curtain twitching neighbours taking to social media to shame people who they presume are flouting the rules without actually knowing for sure. Usually boredom and superiority driven.

Security guard in aldi got attacked and held against the wall by his throat after not allowing a family of ten to enter the shop. Police were called.

YABU to use the phrase "mentally ill" to prove a point or look down on anyone.

Yes, there are arseholes in the world. No, not everyone is an arsehole.

However, the vast, vast majority of people are behaving well, respecting boundaries and doing what's expected of them. For those that don't, won't, can't, your best option is to smile and say nothing; you aren't going to change them and you're doing yourself a disservice by putting inflammatory statements on here because I'm sure you're not a rude person in real life.

I think the situation is getting to you if you can list out all of those things off the top of your head.

You could find examples of that sort of behaviour and far far worse, at any time, all over the world.

You probably just have less time to notice it/think about it.

My dd got yelled at fir stopping walking for a few seconds to catch a pokemon.
We had moved on to the grass verge so we left the path free if anyone needed it.
We were standing for less than 30 seconds.
2 men on the other side of the road declared we shouldn't be out if we were not walking. obviously he couldn't see my walking stick and slow movement.
So dd waited for me to catch up.

So you are glad a person in a wheelchair didn't get in and also angry at a person who moaned about someone with vulnerabilities being allowed in.

Double standards .... I am amazed that people in wheelchairs are made to queue

They are either ignorant so don't quite understand or arrogant and think things don't apply to them.

Even my ds has noticed that it is always us who move to give space to people we meet when out (well someone moved for us once so not always) I'm not sure why a lone adult would not move instead of four people having to cross the road.
(When I'm out alone and meet others it is stitt me who crosses!)

I am amazed that people in wheelchairs are made to queue

I’m not. Why would they be allowed to jump the queue? They’re just as capable of waiting as the rest of us.

You don't sound as if you're exactly 'displaying your best self' either, OP.

Stop worrying so much about what others do, you can't change that. It was ever thus, even before all this. Don't judge or jump to conclusions. Pretty much everyone's having a perpetual Shit Day at the moment, none of us are really ourselves.

Including you.

You’re obviously spending way too much time out and about to be clocking all these infractions in the first place. Maybe if you just stayed at home, there wouldn’t be so many people to annoy you. 🙄

We are lucky we have a lovely local shop who has increased their selection of food and other goods. Including glass bottle for milk. We have not been to any of the large supermarkets for over a month. We also have a market town a few miles away with a proper greengrocer selling loads of things including ice cream, a butcher and a deli selling fresh fish.

After hearing horror stories from my friends about Tesco, etc up the road the break has weaned us off supermarkets.

Oh and as a wheelchair user, yes we’re quite capable of queuing. A wheelchair user may or may not have other health issues, the same as able-bodied people - if you are too vulnerable to queue, you should be staying the hell at home.

Some people have always been dicks. I don't think it's covid-19 making them act like this.

Well, I have a mental illness, and I can honestly say I don't do any of those things.
I haven't even ventured beyond my garden in six weeks.

Even my ds has noticed that it is always us who move to give space to people we meet when out (well someone moved for us once so not always) I'm not sure why a lone adult would not move instead of four people having to cross the road.
(When I'm out alone and meet others it is stitt me who crosses!)

Groups of four are quite capable of getting into single file. No road crossing needed, assuming the path is wide enough for two people to pass, even if it's not at 2m apart. Passing slightly less than 2m apart is not really a risk.