What is WRONG with people? It's 2022!

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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?

As a foreigner who has lived here for nearly 2 decades I have said since day 1 that English people seem strangely adverse to saying "excuse me

You make an excellent point and I think I am guilty of that.

But I also think that I shouldn't have to ask - it should be obvious that you move if you are in someone's way. I always move in plenty of time if I see someone coming towards me - and I'd never block a path - if I am walking with my husband we go single file when people are coming towards us. People lack spatial, or indeed any, awareness and they react soooooo slowly to situations.

Excuse me please preferable

Sorry OP, but your extended and sub-literate rant has reminded me why MN is no longer the place I joined back in 2006.

For goodness' sake, stop being so passive-aggressive! If it annoys you when zombie shoppers barge into your personal space, you need to TELL them articulately not to, or use your own body language to make it clear you're browsing or whatever.

To say nothing, not Excuse me" or to cough or ask for space is a kind of magical thinking - to assume everyone simply knows what your needs are. Sometimes we are distracted or need of the prompt. They might assume with them in the way you might stop walking so fast and have a chat, or ask for directions or or ...

No one can know what you need and no one should be assuming that there is a "right way" to behave in any given situation.

That just asks for misunderstandings!! .....

And culture clash (Is it more polite to blow one's nose or to sniff - a big one for me)

If you walk into someone cos they’ve stopped then that’s your fault .. see Highway Code lololol. You need watch where you’re going.
you probably need something really terrible to happen to you to stop you obsessing over abject trivia .
be brave madam

this has absolutely made me cry with laughter, really tickled me

Have you noticed 99% of people don't say thank you if you give way to them, even if it's your right of way.
Also, attended cinema recently, 2 doors to exit - I held the door for the woman behind me and she didn't even acknowledge me, so on the next door I let it hit her! 🤣

This. Wise woman. I need to heed your words!

99% say thank you to me! And the 1% that don’t? I figure rude or preoccupied with serious shit and so I let it wash over me

And culture clash (Is it more polite to blow one's nose or to sniff - a big one for me)

seriously? I excuse myself, go to a toilet and blow my nose, discard tissues, wash hands, exit toilet!

I think it's a London thing. People are on a mission and block out e everything around them. People ate much more considerate outside London when it's less busy. Same with London drivers.

Are you a londoner?
or someone who has visited for the odd day trip?

I must admit it drives me bonkers when people stop dead in front of me, or when a group of people stand talking in the middle of a pavement or aisle of a shop. Surely it's common courtesy to move to the side??

I realise, though, as I get older I am getting less tolerant to stuff like that. And find it harder to bite my tongue. So I tend to avoid going out if I don't have to.

My god, you are not being unreasonable. People are bellends. As I’ve got older I’ve realised that sadly the vast majority of people do not care about others at all. On Saturday I had my two young kids in the car. I went to pull out of my road and at the bottom the bin truck was waiting to pull in, the blokes ushered me forward so I literally crawled forward at 10mph to check before turning left. As I did so, some woman who obviously couldn’t be arsed to wait, almost crashed into me as she’d pulled onto the wrong side of the road to blindly overtake him. She had the gall to start shouting at me so I got out, managed to stay calm and asked if she knew her Highway Code and asked her if she realised she was illegally overtaking and on the wrong side of the road and nearly totalled my car with my kids in it. She had the nerve to say I’d “swung out of the junction going too fast”. I mean… sometimes there is just no arguing with stupidity. Some people are self serving idiots. And that is why we have a Tory government and brexit. It all boils down to the same thing. These kinds of things really annoy/upset me too. It’s absolutely constant and it is all the same thing: they only think of themselves. I am constantly on alert thinking of how my actions affect others. But sadly, the majority of people give zero f@&ks about others.

Just to add that it happens on the school run too. People stop in huge groups and block the road, people talk on their phones in the way, nearly hit by electric scooters, drivers on their phones nearly hit my son on a zebra crossing. I could go on and on and on…people are inherently not very nice. Sadly that’s my conclusion! My history teacher used to refer to the general public as the “Swinish multitude” sadly I think she’s right 🤣

People queuing behind me in Aldi who start unloading their shopping onto the conveyor belt before I have finished unloading mine. This makes me insanely angry. I have had to ask them to move their products so I can fit mine on. Patience is clearly not a virtue that people have any more.

Even on the bus?

When travelling, when in the queue in the supermarket?

If people get too close to me, I find coughing a little bit makes them back off lol

I don't know what the year has got to do with people being rude. And I apologize if that sounds rude x

For any considerate human being it is much easier for you to shuffle over. 5’11” is not abnormally tall. Get your trip hazard legs out of the aisle and stop acting so entitled. Selfish.