Get in the damn queue!

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Is anybody else irritated at people who stand miles away from the queue, so you think they're not in the queue? You either have to ask them if they're in the queue (if you're able to successfully get their attention), assume they're not, because why would they not be standing actually in it and walk past, or wait like an idiot behind them with a huge disjointed queue.

I'm also noticing loitering people blocking gateways, with no regards for anybody else who should need through. What are these people doing?

Anybody else want to partake in a rant at situations like this that irritate you?

I was boarding group 3. And we were queuing behind this party and they we weren’t moving. we asked were you boarding group 3? Oh no looking rather bemused we are 4. Looked in front and realised that 5 meters from the gate desk wasn’t the best place to stop whilst they waited for their group to be called.

Then they finally turn round to see the huge queue and it seems to come as a complete shock to them. No spatial awareness at all! Especially the ones you see regularly at lunchtime, like in our village shop, where you start to recognise people, and they have the same "surprised" look every time. Just never learn and never change their habits.

I kind of brace myself for impact at the top or bottom of escalators. I slightly enjoy it. It’s not my fault when I bash into them. Not sure what else I was supposed to do. Evaporate?

yes. And on motorway off ramps people cut in front of them. So they leave another big gap. And someone else cuts in. So sitting behind them feels like a never ending wait because you keep getting pushed back

I have the opposite problem. I'm very obviously standing in a queue and someone will say to me 'Are you in the queue?'. Um no,I'm just standing here for fun. I know what you mean though. It was particularly bad during the pandemic, when we had to leave a 2 metre gap between yourself and the person in front. Numerous times I had people going and standing in front of me, and when I told them they were pushing in,they said oh there was such a large gap,I didn't think you were in the queue. Yes,the gap is there for a reason,you idiot!

I see you people who leave a shop and then stand dumbfounded by the bewildering choice of turning left or right and raise you people who stop at the top of an escalator. For some unknown reason this happens often in M&S. It’s very dangerous and I will shout at or shove you out of the way. Idiots.

I do try not to stop at the top of escalators. But I have a huge panic attack inducing phobia of them . I am getting better. But I do sometimes stop and pep myself up a bit. I do try to use lifts but that isn’t always possible.

it’s just going down going up I’m fine.

Yes I despise them and they deserve a cattle prod to the arse. They either walk in or out of a door and stop dead or do it on escalators. Last year at Palma airport some woman decided the best place to stand, with her case, was in a doorway! I said ‘stop blocking the doors’ as I stepped over her case and she told me to fuck off. I took a gamble that she spoke English lol.

People (sheeple) who come and sit right next to you in an otherwise empty/half empty cafe, pub etc. Why? Just why? It drives us mad and we usually end up moving to another table...

Oh just people anywhere really! Engrossed in phones, ear pods in, no awareness of anything of anything going on around them. Crossing the road without looking, drivers speeding past dangerously to gain a few seconds, people who have loudspeaker on phone to talk, endless list really. I do often despair at humankind lol 😆

I do most of my shopping online, but I had to go into M&S recently to get dm something for her birthday. There were two escalator blockers standing debating on what they wanted to order from the cafe (where they were nowhere near), and then the other wanting to go to get perfume first! No problem if people want to ponder, but don't do it at the top of the flipping escalator!

And this is why I want a taser! Escalator blockers are not only annoying but fucking dangerous.

my rant is about people who don’t understand what a pavement is for
A pavement is for walking on. It is not for parking all four wheels of your car or van on it so that you block it completely so that I am constantly having to walk in the road with my pushchair. Not for a quick chat, not for a diy job - not because you have 7 cars and can’t fit them on your drive - none of these are good excuses! It’s selfish and entitled and I know it’s only a should not outside of london but it gets on my tits.
A bit not to block the road I can understand. So nobody can walk past is taking the piss!
Oh and those bobbly bits at crossings - you shouldn’t park on those either.

Yanbu!

What is wrong with these people!!

When standing in the school yard and try to remain visible for your child coming out of class and the big wide grandparent stands a meter away from the door blocking all view of every child so you end up not being able to get your child’s attention because BFG is in the way

Oh cyclists who cycle on the pavement 🤬 I go out for a walk every day and as a pedestrian, I walk on the pavement, why do I have to move out of the way for a cyclist who, if there’s no cycle path, should cycle on the road. I don’t walk on the road so why do they think they have the right to cycle on the pavement and then expect me to move? This really gives me the rage. I almost got knocked over by a cyclist who was fully kitted out in Lycra and all the stuff they wear to indicate they’re a serious cyclist. He must’ve missed me by inches and he just continued racing past me like I didn’t exist. Just cycle on the road you fuckwit.

And another one, as a 60 year old female, I feel completely invisible at times, I hold a door for people, they sail through with no acknowledgement, no thanks, no nothing. I often say out loud ‘you’re welcome’ but that gets no response either. Clearly the door fairy who is deaf and blind has held a door open for these ignorant arseholes who have no manners 🤬

Oh this is us when we’re getting our grandkids from school, I’m only 5 feet tall so it’s hard enough trying to be seen without the 6 foot wanker standing right in front of me so my grandkids teacher can’t see me so won’t release the kids out of the classroom

No, the worst are people looking at their phone whilst walking, and not looking where they are going, I always walk right at them quickly causing them to swerve...I know I'm a child..

Big wide grandparent....see fat....

Well if she was, then that served her right ha ha!!

I really hate (apologies to the hyperbole thread) drivers who creep forwards at traffic lights, especially at roadworks. There's a 10 yard gap in front of you - drive up to the rear of the car in front, stop, select neutral and put your handbrake on! It's not difficult (and much safer).

People who stop just inside doorways need to be tasered. Get out of the way.

When you’re in a queue in Aldi or somewhere and they open another checkout and the selfish people behind you rush over to it like they’re next in line with no thought for anyone in front of them!

I won’t walk round them. I just stop in front of them 🤣

I was rear ended once while looking at a rack of clothes in M&S by someone looking at their phone.