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?

And that’s why people are walking into lamp posts, benches, bins and other stationary objects etc all day long.

@EdaYildiz

Wow! Thank you all for you comments (even the mean ones.)

By 'mean comments,' you mean the ones that don't agree with yours!

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!

So it was YOUR FAULT for not looking where you were going! In streets, and shopping areas and so on, people will STOP sometimes. No-one is going to NEVER STOP walking. People walk along, people stop, then they walk along again, then they stop again...

WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING, and stop blaming others for YOUR failings and errors.

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.

There is no NEED to go back and forth, and there IS no argument.. You are 100% in the wrong here. If you're pissing about on your phone, and not looking where you are going and you bump into someone who stops walking, it is 100% your fault. No grey areas, no ifs buts or maybes... you are in the wrong.

I cannot believe you are actually even trying to suggest that you're not wrong. You 100% are. I am baffled that you cannot see it.

I was not pissing about on my phone, my friend was walking right next to me and I was looking at her when I went SLAM into the lady in front!

It was the wrong timing of it all.

You wasn't there!

Well, no, not if they had their eyes open.

You said upthread you were on your phone looking at someone on your phone

It was the wrong timing of it all.

you said it op. So why blaming the other person

I'm shortsighted so I'm like walking close to the rail all the time otherwise I can't see, also I guess you have to touch the stuff to eventually put them in the basket. I know some people are only browsing, so I jump in front of people all the time only realising it afterwards.
Yes it's 2022 and the world population kept increasing, if you compare to the last generation most of the family now can only afford 1-2 kids, and on my street there are 5-8 houses knocked down to build multistorey flats.
It's hard to keep personal space and life is way much busier so politeness has gone out of the window.
Another element of this is that people come from big cities or busier areas would feel different about how big one's personal space is.
What's wrong with walking in the middle of the street? I'm missing some of the basic code here?

I see, you meant people suddenly stop on a busy street where they're supposed to be walking.
I guess you can't use driving rules here to assume traffic flow continues in the middle of the street-as much as this is a good code most people won't know it.
Nowadays even drivers have to assume pediastrains are unpredictable in which way they are going and be prepared to stop for them any time. Hope that helps. 🙂

You were looking at your friend, not where you were going. That is not the fault of the person who stopped. If you were both driving cars you would be the one at fault.

Oxford Street is probably the busiest Street on the UK, possibly stay away if other humans annoy you so much

The reality is you bumped into her because you weren't looking as you walked, which was a bit of a dick move on your part. You should have apologised to her. Do you expect the pavements in front of you to clear magically for you? Is no-one allowed to walk towards you?

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 don't understand this at all. I've looked at the folded stuff on tables in Primark many times and haven't had anything like this happen - because, obviously, I stand in front of the bit I'm looking at. There just wouldn't be space for a person to get between me and the table.

If a whole person managed to get between you and the table, you're clearly standing much too far away - they probably don't even realise you're looking.

I was in a hospital recently, taking an elderly relative to an appointment. I was trying to manoeuvre my relative in this great, unwieldy hospital wheelchair out of a lift and clearly having difficulty. Another man in the lift couldn't just wait 30 seconds, nope he was doggedly determined to get past me and out the lift first. In his impatience, he then half trips over my foot and swears at me. We all had appointments to get to, waiting just a few more seconds wouldn't have made any difference to his day. I see this kind of impatience a lot.

It's that you're getting older. Sorry, but it is. Every generation thinks that there's a noticeable decline in public manners from when they were young.

They are not 'quirks' though, just lack of consideration.

The person on a busy Saturday morning who's chatting to the cashier or looking round humming 'tum te tum' while their shopping is being rung up then suddenly they are shocked they have to pay and pack their goods.

The person who parks right next to you in an almost empty car park so you can't get your doors fully open.

The person who despite their being 14 other empty treadmills, uses the one next to you them proceeds to have a loud phone conversation.

Not quirks, complete lack of consideration.

I am amazed by how many people on this thread see no problem with abruptly stopping in the middle of the street. It is one of my biggest bugbears. I like my personal space so I definitely don't walk too closely behind people but I often nearly walk into the back of people who just stop in the middle of the street or a crowded shopping centre etc. If you need to stop then glance behind you and move to the side (ensuring that you aren't cutting anyone up when moving to the side). This way you aren't blocking anyone's path, it's not hard.

I also get really annoyed with people that walk at a snails pace but leave no space to get past. Now, I understand that some people walk slowly, that's absolutely fine. But if there is space for others to get past then leave it. Like when there is space for two people to walk but one person walks slowly right in the middle of the space. Or when a family are walking slowly all in a spaced out row leaving no room to get past. Argh it annoys me so much.

Sorry but if you're the one with the cumbersome wheelchair that you aren't used to manoevering then generally speaking you would let the other, more mobile people out the lift first. Especially within a hospital.

The stopping definitely isn't just a London thing. I do often stop for a drink or phone but I tend to move to the side to do so. I thought that was normal!

Sorry but if you are fully mobile generally speaking you should have some patience and respect for others and wait just a few seconds while they make their manoeuvre.

The pp is right, though - you're annoyed he wouldn't wait a few seconds, but you weren't prepared to wait for him. Realistically it would have been quicker all round for you to let him out, and it would also have given you more room to manoeuvre.

With you on supermarkeyd OP. I had a man almost breathing down my necj whilst I was packing my shopping as he was obviously in a hurry. I then had to step back to where he was to pay by card. I just glared at him and he shuffled back. Its not going to make me go faster pal in fact I'll probably go slower. So move away! Ffs.

I generally find most humans distasteful. And still they keep breeding.

Hell is other people but British people are particularly awful and entitled

My pet peeve is people who push their pram right in the middle of the pavement so there's no space either side for you to walk