Getting Annoyed By People In The Street & Shops

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Respectfully -- I get the opposite, in terms of social cliques.

If people think you're too clean or too macho, on the other side of town, you get flack for that.

I would have called myself hipsterish but save the cleaner stuff for going out.

I'm not always a social butterfly, but at least make an effort, feel awkward, get an attitude like I am trying too hard.

I concur. Every errand I make has a preplanned method and purpose. For example, my goal is to be in and out of the grocery store in under ten minutes. I don't have meltdowns or anything, goal setting has always been important to me, no matter how insignificant the goal is.

When others make it difficult for me to reach my goal, I get cranky.

My biggest public pet peeve is slow moving people who take up an inordinate amount of space. The grocery store is next to the high school. I will not shop there when school lets out, those kids are inconsiderate, slow moving, and walk four abreast, taking up the entire aisle, and they wont move for anybody without getting confrontational.

You're an ass. Skinny people can block things just as easily as fat people.

Oh god, don't even get me started...

I work at a pizza place that does a buffet every morning and every wednesday night, and it's usually my job to go out to the dining room, check the buffet, remove old pizza/empty pans, and put fresh pizza out on the buffet. I don't mind it unless there are big crowds or the people are unusually oblivious to their surroundings, which unfortunately is most of the time. When I go out there, they usually either don't see me at all, or they view the whole buffet situation as some sort of fight for survival, out in the wild... it's like the pizza that's on the buffet at any given moment is the ONLY pizza that will EVER be there, and it's every man for himself... Also, apparently, despite the fact that I'm BRINGING the goddamn pizza, I'm part of the competition to get the pizza. So they cut in front of me to get to the table, and once I'm there, they box me in. Then they have the nerve to b***h to me if the pizza gets low, and they love asking me stupid questions like "Is there another pepperoni coming?" No, I just put the last one out... What kind of question is that? Seriously... The ONLY time they're even remotely nice is when they have a request for a certain kind of pizza, and even then, they're usually dicks about it.

Of course, there are other times things like this happens, but this is the one that most readily comes to mind.

Another is when I was in highschool, trying to wade my way thru mobs of idiots, often times there would be enough room for ONE person to squeeze thru, and inevitably, almost every damn time, SOME moron would stop in front of me and just start talking to someone else... They just stop dead in their tracks and start talking. They LOVED to block doorways or any other sort of bottleneck they possibly could.

haha, reading your post made me laugh because when you said about wanting to uppercut someone within 15 minutes, I envisioned someone giving some random idiotic stranger blocking his path a shoryuken.

There's a spot, near a church on my path to downtown, where people tend to stand a circle and talk. The first time I happened upon it (or, at least, noticed it), they were standing close together and I realized that they were not going to move for me. I thought maybe I should cross the street or something, then I realized how downright rude they were being. So, I just went through their circle. As I walked away, one of the women was all like "Awkward", and I thought "Oh, whatever.".

Though, in The Circles' defense, there's been a path to let people through ever since.

But yeah. People are annoying.

When walking through a crowded area always keep to the outer edges as it's less crowded there, the majority tending to concentrate in the middle. You have to manoeuvre round people rather than expecting them to move in the required direction or out of the way - I see them as inanimate obstacles that move in an unpredictable manner and need to be negotiated so better to give a person/group moving erratically as wide a berth as possible rather than getting stuck behind or amongst them.

It tends to be shops with a certain demographic of people where they stop to chat and block aisles so I avoid these types of shop wherever possible. If they can't be avoided, saying 'excuse me please' - politely and with a slight tone of apology for having the temerity to disrupt their conversation usually works. You have to play to the ignorance of this type of person ie humour them for the time it takes to get round and away from them.

I hate going into town ,and i plan in advance ..where i will go how to get there without hassle..i drive because i can't stand public transport as you end up sitting next to a bloody idiot that is either drunk or in a bad mood..and guess what i end up being the one he takes it out on ..lol so don't do public transport.
Hate it when there is gangs of kids hanging around..get's me stressed, i just love to go early to avoid going though the stress,and love just to get back home..to shut my door ..so understand the feeling ...interaction with most people is a big NO in my life right now although i am trying to overcome it to be able to move on in life..because in the end you have to be able to deal with people.

I hear y'all.

And what is with people not getting out of your way on the pavement? Here in Australia we are "keep to the left" people. We used to be, anyway. So if you are walking two abreast and someone is approaching from the other direction, the person walking on the right needs to move behind (or in front of) their walking buddy, to let the stranger pass. They don't though! I frequently find myself moving over to the edge of the pavement or beyond to get out of the way of selfish people like this. On the odd occasion that I refuse to move, they walk right into me. What I want to know is, how do groups of NTs ever walk past each other without bumping? If nobody ever moves out of the way, shouldn't people be crashing into each other all the time??

If a person is walking towards me with plenty of space to get past but they change direction so they are walking directly towards me I hold my ground so they have to move as I do not see why I should have to move one inch as they are the one who has deliberately changed their trajectory to walk into me. I've yet to work out if it's a deliberate aggressive act to force me to move for them needlessly or if they're just stupidly not looking where they are going. Either way I'm not moving and I've yet to have anyone walk right into me. It's like a jousting match and you have to hold your nerve. With groups walking three or more-abreast, again I usually hold my ground as they are being the anti-social ones. When they realise I'm not moving they move as they don't want to be made to look a fool in front of their friends. I get a thrill of power from doing this lol

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ffs! i know that!

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Well, if you know that, I'm curious to know why you said it in the first place, unless you just have some hatred of fat people.

Well, if you know that, I'm curious to know why you said it in the first place, unless you just have some hatred of fat people.[/quote]

He's wearing a baseball cap - that should tell you all you need to know

LOL, that's a VERY good question. Sometimes in public places they even seem to purposely get closer to one another, it's ridiculous... I went to an amusement park last summer with my girlfriend, and we were walking around, smoking cigarettes... And we both had to constantly dodge idiots coming near us to keep from burning them with our lit cigarettes because they had NO concept of what's around them whatsoever, they just walk around aimlessly like idiots.

I would say that if you choose to walk around in public holding a lit cigarette then the onus is on you to ensure you don't ending up burning someone accidentally.

I see people walk into each other all the time. When I'm walking, I spot a person coming nice and early, and I stay on one side of the path, and they usually see that I'm giving enough room so they stay on the other side of the path, and we usually pass without any issues. I'm also rather good at dodging through people in busy places too. But often I see people walking towards each other keeping at each side of the path, then one of them suddenly steps the other side and bumps right into them, and I'm like, ''why do that??''