"Browsing" shops]

If someone (especially a wide shelf-view blocking person) dithers for too long, umming and ahhhing their way over products right where there's something I know I need I simply reach past them, grab it and move on. Get some funny looks sometimes and I'm like what? You were in my way, I resolved the problem without incident and moved on. Did my reaching around your sweating hulking mass offend you? Get over it.
 
My ex mrs used to go into a shop for, lets say, milk,and come out with 2 or 3 bags.
I am of the go in for what you came for school and get out.

Annoying : people who stand in the aisles talking to a friend taking up the whole aisle in the process.
 
I don't know how women do it.

The girls I live with are genuinely shocked when I go out for milk and come back with just milk.
They go out for milk, they come back with milk, cookies, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, cheeseburgers, dynamite, cranes, flux capacitors and god knows what else.

I think very occasionally I'll grab some beer because it's in the same fridge and thats a mans prerogative, that's about it.
 
Also when did someone decide that it was EVER a good idea to come to a complete and utter emergency stop in the middle of an aisle of flowing of trolley traffic, specifically in front of me, whilst leaving their trolley right in the middle, next to one of those aisle hogging special offer bins?

For the love of sweet Moses, some people are truly hopeless window lickers and a complete waste of blood and organs.

As it goes I usually barge their trolley out of the way in these instances. Demolition derby in Sainsbury's it is.
 
pitchfork said:
But theres always these slow people who need to look at every bottle of ketchup on the shelf.
And then when they have picked something they walk off at the slowest pace possible, like a weekly shop should take 2 hours.
Click to expand...

My wife does this too. God knows why. Which is why whenever possible I'll go and get the groceries on my own or with our 18 month old son. Only issue with that is that the wife sends me for bread and milk and I invariably return with red wine and Haribo.
 
On the brighter side, it quite often makes me laugh to see middle aged men go pick out a chocolate bar while their wife is packing the shopping.

Men - we don't ever grow up.
 
Linkex said:
Furthermore, whilst this is not a universal truth, as a general rule, I'm bigger than you. When there is a small space we are approaching from opposite directions and I stop to let you pass first (Which I generally do), please bear in mind that I am being courteous. I have more momentum than you, if I decided I was coming through first, there would be NOTHING you could do about it, you would simply be barged backwards, quite possibly getting hurt in the process. I have this ability and I make the choice not to use it.
Click to expand...

lol you absolute nutter.
 
The condiment section in the supermarket always gets me. I start looking at jars and ingredients for no real reason. I have loads of condiments at home, most of which will only be used once. Drives my missus mad. I like a good condiment.
 
It's almost never that I go to the supermarket when the unwashed are slinking around there, but what get my goat up, and this is probably unfair, is disgusting fat bodies in the crap foods section. Their sweaty flab and ugly faces in concentration, trying to figure what crap to load into their pie holes this week. I've seen fatties that nearly had me physically ill with disgust.

Best time for shopping is 6am when I get out of the gym. Tesco and Sainsbury are conveniently located on my way home and pretty much empty.
 
Thing that annoys me is when i am lining up and then someone stands by the self service tills as if there is a second line for them. Then i point out that there is a line they say that they thought i was lining up for the tills.

I can be a bit of dick when i go shopping because i just ram my trolley in to people, the best is when you hit their ankles and then don't say sorry when they look at you just look unsurprised.

I also enjoy ramming my trolley in to other people trolley or moving other peoples trolley out of the way, the best is when you move it so much that they can't find it. I end up leaving my trolley at the end of the isle when it is busy and then just get what i need.
 
Last edited:
Nitefly said:
lol you absolute nutter.
Click to expand...

I figured I would get this kind of reaction, but ask yourself, why am I wrong?
If I do the polite thing and stand aside, they should do the polite thing and not block/dawdle whilst I am doing so. Its an all or nothing deal, if they don't feel the need to be polite, why should I be? Seriously? I don't benefit from being polite, other than to satisfy my own standards of behaviour - my shopping trip would be FAR more efficient if I simply mowed through the people who, through lack of consideration, are blocking my way unnecessarily. So these people need to choose - is this a polite world where the larger man stands aside for the smaller man or woman, or is this a world where the larger man disregards others and simply pushes through? Either suits me, but I suggest the smaller people stop making this decision by accident, or they will find it challenging to get any shopping done.
 
Linkex said:
I figured I would get this kind of reaction, but ask yourself, why am I wrong?
If I do the polite thing and stand aside, they should do the polite thing and not block/dawdle whilst I am doing so. Its an all or nothing deal, if they don't feel the need to be polite, why should I be? Seriously? I don't benefit from being polite, other than to satisfy my own standards of behaviour - my shopping trip would be FAR more efficient if I simply mowed through the people who, through lack of consideration, are blocking my way unnecessarily. So these people need to choose - is this a polite world where the larger man stands aside for the smaller man or woman, or is this a world where the larger man disregards others and simply pushes through? Either suits me, but I suggest the smaller people stop making this decision by accident, or they will find it challenging to get any shopping done.
Click to expand...

That's a very strange view IMO. Courtesy doesn't work like that, a small man shouldn't be 'more' grateful for being let pass by a bigger man than the opposite, which is what you seem to be suggesting.

Plus, if you are going to start analysing levels of gratefulness in situations where one person gives way to another then why would physical size be the only factor? I could just as easily say that Bill Gates letting you pass should make you more grateful than if you let him passed because he's losing more money by doing it.

What about a small person with disability or an infirm pensioner, if you let them pass should they be more grateful on the basis that you could have knocked them over?

I dunno how you've boiled a simple courtesy down to physical size tbh.
 
estebanrey said:
That's a very strange view IMO. Courtesy doesn't work like that, a small man shouldn't be 'more' grateful for being let pass by a bigger man than the opposite, which is what you seem to be suggesting.

Plus, if you are going to start analysing levels of gratefulness in situations where one person gives way to another then why would physical size be the only factor? I could just as easily say that Bill Gates letting you pass should make you more grateful than if you let him passed because he's losing more money by doing it.

What about a small person with disability or an infirm pensioner, if you let them pass should they be more grateful on the basis that you could have knocked them over?

I dunno how you've boiled a simple courtesy down to physical size tbh.
Click to expand...

I think his point is merely that everyone should be a little more considerate and thoughtful in general. I don't think that his size has much to do with it beyond the feeling that if it came down to it, he would probably come off better if the other person decides to push past him.

I get annoyed in the same way when little people do that. You think "Seriously, are you doing this or purpose because if I wanted to / wouldn't get in trouble for it, I would just push you out of the way". Its not a case of "I'm bigger than you" its a case of "get some damn manners and courtesy you absolute ****".

Don't you get annoyed when you have held a door open for someone and they just ignore you. I get it all the time on my bike. People who just pull out in front of you, overtake within a few inches of your bike and never say thank you when you let them pass on a single lane street. Doing something for someone else is much more satisfying than doing it for yourself. Scientific evidence and all.
 
estebanrey said:
That's a very strange view IMO. Courtesy doesn't work like that, a small man shouldn't be 'more' grateful for being let pass by a bigger man than the opposite, which is what you seem to be suggesting.

Plus, if you are going to start analysing levels of gratefulness in situations where one person gives way to another then why would physical size be the only factor? I could just as easily say that Bill Gates letting you pass should make you more grateful than if you let him passed because he's losing more money by doing it.

What about a small person with disability or an infirm pensioner, if you let them pass should they be more grateful on the basis that you could have knocked them over?

I dunno how you've boiled a simple courtesy down to physical size tbh.
Click to expand...

I think it's quite easy to extrapolate what he's trying to say.

In the animal kingdom and other primitive cultures, it's very much survival of the fittest, size/power is king. As we (supposedly) live in a more civil society, these values are replaced by courtesy and consideration for others. The OP is keeping to those values, by giving way to physically inferior individuals. The individuals in question however don't appear to have any interest in courtesy or consideration, and the OP is perfectly justified in asking why he should bother paying heed to those values, when arguably he has much less to lose by reverting to the primitive survival of the fittest option.
 
People annoy me, it doesn't matter where they are. The world would be a much nicer place if all you lot just sodded off and left me to it! :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom