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?

I have noticed this a lot more recently and think it’s getting worse

People in 2022 should know that fast fashion is terrible for the environment. They should also question why the clothes are so cheap.

Primark is good quality I’ve had clothes they last years even bras. Jeans are also a brilliant fit. I also shop at charity shops and guess what they sell on primark and supermarket brands. Primark also make clothes from recycled materials.

However I agree people get sooo close on old guy was so close I could feel his breath and nasal breathing. I did what another poster did lightly cough and stepped forward he didn’t move. Checkouts pushing the trolley up your arse ffs. Thank god for smart shop.

YABU for saying ALOT. It is two words.

YANBU for the rest of it. Some people... aarghhh.

Last time I went shopping I went into two empty shops. Within two minutes I had other people standing in front of me, pushing into the side of me, standing over me.....I gave up and walked out. They were obviously more determined to spend money than me!

Just a general rant about rudeness from me.

Waiting for an open top touring bus last week and everyone was queuing considerately and respectfully. This older couple turn up - him with a walking stick and goes and sits down on a bench to wait, fair enough. The bus arrives, opens the door and the wife literally pushes her way into the front of the line shouting, “My husband is disabled!” Someone politely points out that we’ve all been waiting but there’ll still be plenty of space onboard - which she ignores. Meanwhile, he seems to have had some kind of miraculous recovery and has joined her. They then both elbow through and leg it up the stairway to bag the front seats on the upper deck for the tour!

I couldn’t resist pointing out - ever so sweetly - that there was in fact disabled seating downstairs, but they both blanked me and stared straight ahead!

Sorry! Had to offload. There’s so much negativity about young people but some of the rudest are the older generation.

I’m with you OP, I’d say the majority of people just have absolutely no awareness of anything beyond the end of their nose. The bimbling about as if everyone else in the world has nowhere else to be, the stopping dead with no idea anybody might be behind them, the sudden change of direction without checking to see if you’re about to land in someone else’s path, it’s just a complete lack of awareness. Drives me bonkers.

I've had that in shops, where there is a clear place to queue and wait to be called forward but someone is right behind me when I'm paying.

People stopping without warning is forgiveable imo in that I think at one time or another we all do it. I do get a bit frustrated with slow walking but again one day maybe I'll be a slow walker.

I just think people can be very self-centred these days, they only focus on them, sometimes not even their own children. They talk loudly, play music out loud on buses, put their bags on train seats, appear to barely notice anyone else.

We live in a highly narcissistic and selfish society. Its not that surprising as not only has social media got its grips right in, it's difficult and competitive (for housing, good jobs) out there and dog eat dog.

On the flip side there are plenty of social minded people, running foodbanks, giving blood, protesting about climate change etc.

I'm glad I shop online.
Some of us who 'loiter in the street' do so because we are disabled, not to spite important people in a hurry.
Sheesh

Bad enough that people are oblivious when walking/shopping, but there's a hell of a lot more oblivious drivers about these days too, who can't be bothered to indicate, brake/stop for no obvious reasons, refuse to notice speed limit signs, then park causing obstructions, etc. No one seems to have any regard for others anymore. It's definitely all "me, me, me" now.

I live in London, the worst thing I find is that people will be walking 3 or 4 abreast across the pavement and you are literally forced to step into the road because they don't break form. They usually seem oblivious. Also when there's only space for one person to go through a gap/doorway at once and you give way to people and they don't even look at you. It is really mystifying. Im sure all these people don't think of themselves as rude people. It is worse since covid too I think.

I am small, so none of this is new to me. They probably think you are in their way, many are unbelievably entitled.

‘A lot’ and ‘every time’ are two words each. It’s 2022 FGS!

They are 2 different issues, one in a queue and person behind standing so close that she is touching her when it’s obvious they are not moving.

Other you’re walking and someone stops abruptly in the middle of the street to look at their phone or something instead of being aware if someone’s behind and stepping aside or something. This annoys me a lot. Some will just stop and start talking in the middle of a path and people have to then walk past them slowing everyone down unnecessarily. Proper thing to do is glance behind you before you stop to make sure no one will barge into you and step to the side to talk or do what you want so others don’t have to stop or go round you.

I don’t know if you are just super unlucky, living life at a different pace or a weird area or just have an uncommanding presence of space.

These things do happen and it’s irritating but it’s happening a lot to you. Obviously I am not there so I don’t know if it’s you. But that’s the only thing you can change so I would try out some different techniques.

You know those people who get complained about for “telling it like it is” when really they’re just rude and in possession of poor social skills?

nope. Not me. I tell people if they're in my way. If they obviously don't realise i'll ask them if they mind moving a bit so i can reach/see something. If they plonk themselves right in front of me? That is rude and I'll be less polite, but not rude.

The problem people have with people like me isn't that we "tell it like it is" at all. It is that they realise that they are too wet-lettuce-like to ask people not to walk all over them.

I have excellent social skills thank you, but i have limited capacity to put up with rudeness. 9 times out of ten, or more like 99 out of 100, they haven'T realised they're being rude, and apologise and move out of the way.

Go to nicer shops!

Some of us don't have all day to stand around looking at things. If you want to stand at look at things that's fine but don't get angry when I lean over you because I've already decided that's what I want.

FFS. Just say "excuse me, I'm just going to grab that" instead of barging past. They might be new to that supermarket, have poor eyesight, be checking a price, any number of things. Don't be a rude bloody barger and you'll be fine.

The Morrison's salad bar is an absolute nightmare!

My city is awful for this. Everyone stands all over escalators instead of standing to the right so you cant walk up it even when you ask repeatedly for them to move! Everyone is so slow and pays no attention to anyone else around them. I work in a shop and even when im carrying stock to put on shelves no one will move for me at all then when they do notice me they crowd around me sometimes actually taking products out of my hands as i stack the shelves!!

also I'm not sure where you're all walking that you have room to dodge out of the way of a sudden stopper. Oxford street is awful for that, the Shambles in York and any other number of crowded streets. It is quite conceivable that someone will bump into you if you stop suddenly. See also coming to a dead stop at the top of an escalator, or going through a revolving door.

In my village? less likely to bump into anyone at all for vast amounts of the day.

Unless you’re a ghost or otherwise invisible, I don’t think you’re being unreasonable here. People are awful.

People that walk onto tube platforms and stop at the entrance. People that use stairs and then just stop at the top or bottom. People that block doorways

I am a calm and peaceful person but these things aggravate the hell out of me

Yes this. There's 10 million people in London, it's crowded. Oxford Street is the worst! Primarks are the worst.

I genuinely don't have any of the problem you're talking about but I avoid the most crowded parts of the city and try to get in and out of shops asap.

@Brefugee you literally said you'd push someone out of your way at the top of an escalator, you really can't see that that's rude and dangerous? Make sure you don't do that to the wrong person one day.