What is WRONG with people? It's 2022!

[EdaYildiz]

Over the past couple of weeks, ALOT of things when out and about has been getting on my last nerves, it's almost like people just think they walk the earth alone and are not considerate for anybody around them!

EVERYTIME I go to Tesco I can guarantee that at least one person will come and stand right in front of me when I am looking at something - literally plonk themselves right in front of me like I'm not there! I always make a point to stand so I'm not blocking the way for others to walk behind me but also that I've left enough space for others to grab and go from the shelf.

I was in Primark yesterday looking at some basic jumpers on the folded table and there was an ENTIRE table to walk around but no no, I'll let you guess where she came a stood.

I finished work yesterday and was walking down Oxford St with a friend and then BAM the women in front of me just stopped so obviously I went into the back of her and I hurt my nose because of the impact so I said to her "Yes please, just stop walking in the middle of the street".

Shopping Centers is another ache up my backside with people just stopping when they're walking.

I was in a different Primark recently and the women behind me was so close for the 20 minutes we were queuing that I was practically grinding her! Then when I was waiting for my turn to be called to a till, she overtook me and went to the till so I chased her and said excuse me a few times which she ignored!

Another time in Primark, a teenager walked up to the disabled tills bypassing the huge queue, paid and walked off laughing to her friend and saying "idiots looks at them all queuing" so it was clear she was faking it because then she was running around Primark playing tag with her group of friends and then booting it up the escalators on the wrong way racing her friends.

My lord, what is wrong with people? Does anybody find this happens to them too or does this just happen to me?

YABU for shopping in Primark so often ;)
But I do think that people are increasingly forgetting how to interact with each other and behave in public. I don't think lockdown has helped, nor does the increasing trend for everyone to walk round with their head in their phone or with headphones on. Worrying these people also drive in the same way they walk.

Unless that’s where you work, you’re spending too much time in Primark.

Stop going shopping so often! Save some money and your sanity.

I'm not sure how in one example you can complain someone was standing too close to you, but in another you were walking so close to someone you walked into them when they stopped? People do stop eventually when walking.

The other issues are irritating.

People are inconsiderate arses

But I think you need to stand closer to displays tbh. A person couldn’t physically fit between me and the cheese fridge, for example, so I think you’re standing far away enough that people don’t realise you’re actually looking at stuff

What has any of this got to do with the year?
You think people weren't odd in 1930? Or will be odd in another 200 years' time?

Yes, it's 2022 and alot is still not an actual word.

I’m with you Op on this one, but I genuinely do think there is a difference between them being blind ignorant and rude and people who genuinely are just in a world of their own/shopping trance who don’t realise 🤣

People at reduced fresh sections of shops annoy me. Rather than pushing in and getting in peoples spaces I usually politely stand behind someone who is busy looking and clearly wait my turn, only for people to push and shove front in their desperation for 25p of an expiring goodie. Maybe I should be more forthcoming!

If I stand way back I find people will assume I'm not looking and get between me and the display.

There's definitely times when I think people have so spatial awareness and notice for others to but we are bound to fail a few % of the time. Mostly we navigate pretty well when you think how busy some places get.

I have occasionally had someone stand in front when in a supermarket.

As for Primark, I don't go in there, as to do so would not only be condoning their supply chain, but also as bad as trampling on the graves of the ancestors of mine who were tailors.

Just got back from local shopping centre. Went up to London last week too.

I hear you @EdaYildiz

people are fucking NUTS!

im mid 50s and although fit and active, it’s like everyone else is the walking dead. Meandering about, shuffling here and there. Randomly slowing their snail like pace to a halt or at first glance seemingly unconnected people randomly congregating and chatting in the main thoroughfare.

no wonder high street shopping is in such a mess…

I was in a supermarket queue when another shopper stood very close to me, when I got through the till and started to pay with my card she stood right beside me. I told her “could you stand back please you are invading my space”, she was surprised but moved away from me.

EVERYTIME I go to Tesco I can guarantee that at least one person will come and stand right in front of me when I am looking at something - literally plonk themselves right in front of me like I'm not there*!

Omg yes! And sometimes its staff picking orders! Twats.

To be honest if people stand really close to me in an otherwise empty area I would assume they’re trying to pick pocket me. It’s happened on at least attempted to happen countless times abd I’m wise to it now.

You complain about someone being too close behind you but also complain about walking into someone else when they stopped, because you were too close behind them. So you tell us, it's 2022 what's wrong with you?

I've spent a week in London and came on to post similar. No doubt equally true in my local city but due to the number of people in London it's more acute. I appreciate I last lived and worked in London jn Feb 2020 and have only visited since then but the number of people with bags on seats who then stare at me blankly when I ask them to move so I can sit down, watch TV on phones without headphones, stop suddenly in streets or doorways and have a full blown phone convo in public on loudspeaker was shocking. I think people have been affected by lockdown and are now more self centred. Thankfully saw lots of lovely and friendly people as well but it definitely wasn't like this when I lived there.

A lot of people can’t afford to go anywhere else though, the majority of my clothes shopping is secondhand bit some items need to be purchased new. I can buy a 5 pack of underwear for £2.50 or less. I can’t afford to pay £5 plus on a similar product elsewhere.

O said this a few times to people during covid! There was literally a big sign saying leave 2mtrs between people & they'd just keep moving closer, until they were almost sat on my lap. Ug. Just fuck off!

I tell people shoving up behind me in supermarket queue, to back off. Standing right next to me won’t make the checkout staff move any faster.

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

I don't usually agree with pointing out SPAG things, but sometimes people just beg for it!

@EdaYildiz Why the hell are you standing in the middle of aisles, not being prepared to go to a till and walking so close to someone you bang your nose in then when they stop???

Some people lack courtesy. My pet hate is people barging in front of me at the tube doors when I'm clearly waiting for them to open and enter. Bad manners IMO.
But also some people, perhaps OP included, are overly agreived by other people being in a busy space alongside them. If you are in a busy location then expect people to be doing their own thing, just like you.

I was hoping that the 2m distance during COVID would become a more natural thing so people wouldn't stand so close to people in queues, shops etc, not necessarily 2m but not breathing down your neck close, but unfortunately not

While people shouldn’t stand in front of you when you are looking at a display if I saw someone standing so far away that I could fit another entire adult human between them and the display I wouldn’t think they were looking at it.

Id say people are far more inconsiderate, rude and intolerant nowadays.

All the civilised people are not going to Primark or shopping centres they are doing it online 😉