General out and about shopping encounters with idiots?

ethan said:
I can't be the only person these things happen to but what are your weirdest, recent experiences with members of the general public?

The first one of mine happened today. I'm out shopping in Newcastle and I'm busying myself past a woman and her young child looking in a shop window. Down comes a mountain of a bloke from the opposite direction who deliberately slams in to me and then carry's on walking. I gives him the look simply because I don't consider that a reasonable way to behave in public and he comes rushing back at me screaming about me looking at him. An argument ensues because he starts to blame me. The woman and the kid are scared to death because they don't like what's going on and me, despite not really wanting any trouble, tells him he got the look because I blame him because there was absolutely no way past the kid and the mother except around them for me to go. He then starts fffing and blinding and screaming with his fists in the air before storming off ?

Second one involved some guy walking straight in to me and placing his nose on my forehead and standing there emotionless and expressionless for half a minute before going around me and then carrying on with his journey. Freaky?
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That's beyond the pale and not just your average street nutters I must say. You're lucky one of them didn't go after you with a machete!

You must have a nutter aerial on your head attracting them.
 
A secondary school kid and his mates asked me if I had any Rizzla 2 days ago.

THE NERVE.
 
What about the phone zombies ?

I used to travel along the Jubilee Line to Canary Wharf got on at Mayfair, walking to the station there people wearing their clown shoes and noses in their phones are forever walking into you. You then get off and it's the same people heads down and playing on their phones
 
valkynaz said:
I really hate it when you're out shopping and you're browsing up and down narrow isles and the person infront clearly knows you are behind them but decide to stop and not bother moving out of the way to let you past. Any time this happens I barge past them and don't say anything.

Another time while at peak shopping time at ASDA a few people who bumped into each other at once of the entrances which around 75% of people use decide to stop and chat. Bearing in mind the doors are big enough to have people pass through 3-4 at a time and they reduced it down to single file while people on both sides were piling up to get through. I kindly told them to get the **** out of the way and carried on.
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You sound like part of the problem with shopping in public.
 
Feef said:
More or less every person that I encounter on the street on a daily basis, thanks to the ridiculously selfish "me first" attitude of ... well, everyone.

Want something in a convenience store? Just walk in and start talking to the assistant until they listen to you - what queue?

Road too busy? Just drive down the pavement, pedestrians are below you anyway. A friend missed getting knocked down by a split second yesterday when walking out of a shop by someone flying past doing this.

Red light? Be sure to edge 2 metres over the stop line to block the pedestrian crossing, to save that precious second when you carry on. Or just turn right withouth seeing if there might be anyone crossing.

Received a funny cartoon of a stylised dog? Don't take your eyes off your phone, everyone else will get out of your way.

Single-file narrow walkway? Perfect place for a group discussion, while scolding people who want to get past.

See a foreigner? Stare, and talk loudly about how weird they look, because obviously they won't understand you.
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Cold outside? Better go in to this shop. Phew! Made it, we're inside so we're ok... lets just stand here now, RIGHT IN THE DOORWAY. :mad:

Want to go up to the next floor... just hop on the escalator! Right, we're here... now what? I don't know, lets just stand here AT THE TOP OF THE ESCALATOR while we decide! :mad:

I want to buy a pushchair, which is the biggest one I can find? Bought it! Lets go in to this small shop! :mad:

Hey, this is a suitably busy street! Lets walk three abreast, no-one will mind! :mad:

Got in from the rain! Let me just flap my wet umbrella all over you, don't worry it will dry! :mad:
 
I don't get any of these problems.

Perhaps people are just friendlier in this part of the country (?)

(though some of the "problems" are things I just wouldn't notice - chill out fellas)
 
I dont go to town that often so I get to avoid people most days but when I go food shopping well thats a whole new story.

There is the people who stop to chat with their friends and block the aisle and dont hear you when you say excuse me and if they do hear you they move their trolley by inch so you still cant fit past them.

Then there is people who have to push to get the milk right at the second you are getting it pushing you off the shelf and not even bothering to say sorry.

I also hate people who pick up something cold and then decide they dont want it and leave it where they happen to be at the time (freezer, bred isle etc) but that was more annoying when I worked in a supermarket. Also when I worked there you had people coming to talk to you when you already had a customer and when closing tills people always ignored the big this till is closed sign and were very annoyed and gave some abuse when I said that Im sorry Im closing the till.
There is also the people who will have a go at you because the offer they picked wasnt actually the right product or something on that line and then they end up demanding the manager of the store to sort it. So happy I got out of retail now...

And finally the people who decide they are far too important to queue and push infront of you. I just let them though as Im not usually in rush so its not worth arguement.

I hate shopping. Its like a zoo out there.
 
My wife was in Cambridge centre the other day and she saw a woman with 3 kids, one was about 6 months old in a pushchair the other 2 were about 2 and 5.

She took the 5yr old to the toilet and left a 2 yr old to supervise a baby right at the top of the escalators, madness.
 
not while shopping but a similar experience..

trying to get off the train at southampton station only for the morons on the platorm to swarm around the train door.

just stood there in the open doorway looking at them for about 10 seconds before announcing that they'd stand a better chance of getting on the train if they got out of the way.

i think i got some abuse (had my earphones in) back and enough of a gap emerged for me to shoulder barge several morons while stepping down onto the platform.
 
asim18 said:
There are some right idiots around.

Few days ago I was walking down the road. There was a guy walking in front of me for about 3 or 4 minutes. Then footpath gets narrower. He stops in the middle of the footpath, then looks back at me as if to say "Yeah I'm blocking your way".

So I just barged right passed him. I didn't barge him enough to cause injury or a retaliatory attack, just enough to let him know he isn't going to get an "excuse me".
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Why didn't you say excuse me if he was slowing you down?

Sounds like he's not the idiot here...
 
Some people are just thick.

I mean sometimes when i'm walking minding my own business, someone just stops in front of me for no reason, and then just stare waiting for a 'excuse me' they will not be getting.
Or when your in a shop, and someone is creepy stood behind you, just looking and not actually doing anything as such, and then just walk off! what is all that about? I mean if i'm trying to look past someone then you try I try to look, not stand there gormless. :p
 
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