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?

Best place for a chat with your 2 shopping Trolleys you ask?

Entrance or exit of a supermarket I reckon.

PMSL are you actually for real?! If any of this has actually ever happened, you sound so proud of yourself for this obnoxious and rude behaviour. As a pp said you just lack social skills, and you just sound like you need educating a bit on how to behave in public. The irony of you saying you give no fucks about rude people. 😂

Like @Chikapu said, as IF you would shove someone out of your way at the top of an escalator. Most people would not tolerate you doing that. They'd bloody shove you back down the escalator. No-one I know WOULD stop at the top of an escalator anyway, does anyone actually DO that?

@Brefugee

I've been on this planet for 60 years.

Yeah? So what? Do you think this entitles you to do what the F you want, because you have 'been on the planet for 60 years?' WTAF?

Newsflash, not it DOESN'T!

Tourists are gonna tourist

If you live or work near tourist attractions, you will have to put up with tourists who don't know what they're doing

That's just life, please don't shove and poke the tourists

@Swivellingbrat Have you ever thought that the person with the problem might be you? it's you.

@Brefugee

You sound very very unhappy to me. Angry and unhappy

People are just generally infuriating - it's you (and me) rather than them. We're misanthropes

People out shopping are a nightmare. I only go early then the only people I have to contend with are the staff doing the shopping for other people.

Rudeness prevails. I think isolating from normal human interactions off and on for 2 years, constant online computer gaming/social media-ing, and shouting orders at Alexas in homes has made so many people forget basic manners and common courtesy when it comes to others.

Sad, really.

Just to clear this up.

I was walking and talking to my friend, the person stopped and was looking at someone on their phone, I didn't notice (yes because I was talking) but I wasn't 'close' - yes I should have been look ahead but why is someone standing in middle of a footpath?! MOVE TO THE SIDE

You're in London.

Enough said - people are rude AF there. Maybe you're only just noticing.

YANBU OP. I was in Milton Keynes shopping centre on Tuesday and we got stuck behind a mum, dad, grandma and two kids who were shuffling alongside each other in a line at a snail’s pace. Complete thoughtlessness!

I think it's just more noticeable in highly populated areas. There are too many of us on top of each other. You would not notice this if you were walking outside in woodland, or in a less busy high street. You need to spend less time in shopping centres and more time away from people. I find that the more time you spend around people, the more annoying they become.😄

I’m starting to get the vibe that part of the issue is that more people are braving the outdoors and perhaps OP isn’t used to things being so crowded because of the past few years… so perhaps it’s a little bit of everyone?

You should try stopping for a box junction I was overtaken he then was blocking the junction and cars stacked up

I was in the outside lane on the island a car tried to pull out on me when I beeped (couldn't emergency stop there was a van up my arse) she stopped started running her gums pointing and cussing if she had pulled out she would NOT have cleared the lane in time I had nowhere to go and would have been crushed thankfully the car to the side saw and was able to move over do I could go round her nose the van just squeaked by too

We have many people on the planet you don't live alone!

🙄

So you weren’t looking where you were going and that was their fault.

Wow! Thank you all for you comments (even the mean ones) and for those who have shared their stories, some made me really laugh!

I've only recently noticed all this more now than ever which has led to my frustration and posting this topic today.

Just to clear a few things up:

1. I know it sounds like it from the post, but I don't shop at Primark that much however with the cost of living gone up, their basics are all I can afford unless anybody has alternative suggestions?
2. I was not walking close to the lady ahead of me when I walked into her, she had stopped and I was talking to my friend, unknowingly walked into her when I reached her!
3. I don't stand that far from the shelf at Supermarkets but I will take on the advice and stand closer
4. I'm not dead.

Just on the back of that, I like cooking new dishes as often as I can so not sure what's wrong with me looking at the products, labels or ingredients to decide what I want.

We can go back and forth until the cows come home with this one.

The argument is why did she stop in the middle of the street? Whether or not it was me, but someone would have eventually bumped into her somehow if she kept on standing there.

Have you considered all the harm you’re doing to other people by shopping in Primark? It’s probably slightly worse than being slightly inconvenienced by someone standing in the wrong place.

You’re now actively looking for things to be annoyed about just to prove yourself right. Has it occurred to you that if you focus on nice things you’d be a happier person?

Quite. People often say things like "surely.this is not acceptable, it's xxxx year.!!) As if there's a list of things and behaviours that are acceptable different years 😀

What were you buying? Do you actually need any of it? If not, just don’t buy!

Fake economy primark. I assumed your multiple visits were returning clothing that had disintegrated during the first wash

People have got really rude recently - I see it all the time, people marching down the street and expecting you to move over!

I'm fairly lucky and limit my Primark West End trips to early morning or after work. Can guarantee people will be slow.

Oh it’s the nonsense about the “good ol’ times”

There were grumpy very sensitive people 100 years ago. There are grumpy very sensitive people in 2022. And there will be grumpy and very sensitive people in another hundred years!

I'm with you on the shopping ones, but walking into people in the street is on you - if you were cars on a road you'd be at fault.

Lol. What else do you expect in Primark? I avoid it like the Plague.