to be pissed off with those people who have no respect for you personal space!

[pedilia]

God they piss me off, those who stand so close behind you in a queue that you van feel their breath on your neck!!

Other examples- I was in a car park once and there were TWO other cars on the level I parked on, I parked up and got DD out of the car, some woman pulled up and waited until I had moved the buggy so she could park right next to me!! There must have been at least 40 other spaces/

Took DD and DS to a cafe this morning, about 20 empty tables so this old bloke decides to sit right next to us and watch our every move FFS

People are very sheep-like, I have noticed. They follow each other and, well, flock together!!

So they park in the same places, follow the same routes, follow the same fashions...

baaaa-aaah

Yes that's annoying.

Better than being invisible tho, as I obviously am. People walk in front of me to the checkout even tho I am standing there, they will let doors slam on me, walk straight at me on the pavement, until they walk into me (unless I skipp out of the way.)

I pulled outof the car park on monday, to watch the car in the park in front wait for me to get 1 foot away from their back bumper before slamming it in reverse and coming at me!

captain- sorry that post made me laugh

Pedilia - I know what you mean abut the carpark, my dh will go a park next to a 'nice' car in the carpark, rater than the old rust bucket that is the only other car there. I think he thinks rust is infectious.

PMSL

pedilia - I am soooo glad its not just me! DH thinks I am mental as I get so irritated with in particular the people who seem to want to get in my shopping bags with me (I always make a big point of turning the pin machine round and turning my back to them!) and people who park next to me when there are hundreds of empty spaces (particularly if I have sneaked to McD's and want to be left alone with my big mac) Arses!!

If people get too close to me I tread on their feet or bump into them and apologise with my special Frightening Smile, which usually shifts them. If people sit next to me on an empty bus or train I wriggle, scratch my head and moan about my nits, or just fart repeatedly. Because I Loathes space invaders...

I hate those queue people too pedilia.

They bash you in the back of your legs with their baskets or prod you in the ribs with coathangers. You edge away a few steps and they bloody follow as if they're attached to you by a piece of elastic. All the time you get hear them breathing in your ear. Eurgh.

What about people who stand in your face,you step back they just move forward,makes me want to just slap their face..hard

pmsl madamez - whats your special smile look like?

I'm not bothered about people standing near me, but I really hate unwanted physical contact. It's made me almost dread my morning tube journey. People (almost always men for some reason) act as if they are entitled to a seat and a half - they spread their legs until I have to cross mine, push my arm off the arm rest, unfold their paper in my face, let their bag flop into my lap...

Urgggh, shuddering just thinking about it. I feel like drawing a chalk line down the carriage and saying "keep your bloody legs together!"

So it's not just me then. DH thinks I weird to hate my space invaded. I had to step oput of a bank que the other day to avoid my neck being breathed on. Ahhhhh!

We once went to a huge, deseted beach in cornwall and about half an hour later another family came along and sat next to us. Why?

And they had deck cahirs, but that's another story.

Oooh Lynetter that reminds me of the time we went to a beach that was deserted, until 2 women came along with 2 kids and sat directly behind us. The kids scrambled about, kicking sand over us, while the women sat and swore, loudly, about their lives.

After about an hour of tutting, we got up and left.

madamez ..... like the "special frightening smile{grin]

How to do a Special Frightening Smile:

Stare hard at the person. Set your teeth lightly together and stretch your lips in a big grin, but do NOT let the smile reach your eyes.
Works every time...

just picturing it like one of those creature comfort animals!.or maybe not, maybe the face of the bloke in the Shining "dadys home bit"

I remember being on a train with DS1 when I was still breastfeeding, train was almost deserted ao Ipicked an empty carriage so I could feed/entertain DS, just as it was about to pull away a bloke got on and sat on the seat across the aisle.
I was so annoyed ( he had the whole bloody train and had walked the length) I asked himj why he had chosen to sit there as there were plenty of other seats, he mumbled something and moved

I can sooo sympathise.

DH and I went to the new multiplex cinema out of town a few months ago - massive concrete monstrosity which is always about a tenth full, if that. Get our tickets and go and stand in the queue for drinks to take in. DH takes one of the tickets and goes off and finds a good seat, not realising that the seats are numbered, while I wait in the queue. I walk into the cinema with the drinks and have to peer into the darkness to see where DH is. Literally hundreds of empty seats and TWO other people in the whole auditorium!! DH has picked some in-the-middle seats, which are fine.

Two minutes later a couple come up to us with tickets in their hand and say (bearing in mind how empty it is), "errr I think you're in our seats". We were. LOL LOL LOL Cue freaky coincidence music. But also: cue weirdo people who couldn't perhaps wait to see if the auditorium was going to get a leetle bit more busy in the remaining two minutes before the film before hassling us

And what is it with those neck-breathers in queues?! My theory is that they're scared someone else is going to barge in as they are considering doing in the next-door queue if that goes any faster.