People who stand in doorways.

Miles

Has anyone else noticed a faction of the population who believe the best place to plan the next thing to do, or chat with a mate, or answer their cell, or rearrange the many bags they are carrying is in a doorway? Failing the close proximity of a doorway, then it will be between two shopping trolleys in the super market aisle, or in the narrow gap between two tables, or chairs or any other pinch point thus inhibiting free flow of traffic. And, if you are really lucky just when they step off an escalator.

Does anyone know why they do it?

Slutmonkey57b

It's because they hate you and want you to die.

Miles

Thank you. We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.

Slutmonkey57b

Well, I figure they just do it to annoy you, right? And eventually you'll get so annoyed you'll go Falling Down, and then you'll end up dead. They must be aware of the standing in doors bit, so they must really want to do it.

Anyway, it's not a phrase designed to impugne you particularly, I'm just making it one of my stock answers along with "Youre Ma". I can put the whole thing down to Youre Ma if you prefer.

Miles

Nah I like your first post better.

40crush41

hate that! some people boggle my mind. and u know whats messed up? i got a friend -just had surgery on her ankle and shes on crutches. so i go around with her and help her carry her books from time to time and would u believe that kids cut her off at the door way? shes trying to get through and they can't wait a second for her to go through -which thus causes a mix up and clogging at the door way scene.

she was telling me that when she was alone in the hallway, she struggled to opened the door by herself. then this kid comes in from behind her and goes through the door she opened. not only did someone who was in the hallway with her at the time not open the door for this poor girl, but then went through the door first. what the hell is going on here?

haha -yeeaaaaa, i feel strongly about this issue apparently =P. but its true, some people are just rude. mmmhmm ~Beth

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The little part at the place where stairs turn to go up or down between floors aswell. Assholes.

p.pete

People walking along the street on front of you who just suddenly decide to stop, usually 2 people with a kid (for extra girth) making them impossible to swerve round at the last minute...

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p.pete wrote:

People walking along the street on front of you who just suddenly decide to stop, usually 2 people with a kid (for extra girth) making them impossible to swerve round at the last minute...

...or little old ladies with forty bags. They are usually a good bit smaller than the average person, so they don't usually come in to your field of vision and next thing you know you are tripping all over this little old dear and getting whacked with a handbag.

kenmc

p.pete wrote:

People walking along the street on front of you who just suddenly decide to stop, usually 2 people with a kid (for extra girth) making them impossible to swerve round at the last minute...

What is this "swerve round" that you talk about??? There's only one shortest way between two points.... the straight line that joins them. If a few kids/grannys/dawdlers get trampled underfoot then there's less to have to do next week.
But seriously - nothing f*cks me off more than some muppets just dawdling along in xmas rush hour grafton street traffic.... and just stopping to pick their nose/find their purse whatever. I think that there should be lanes on all pedestrian streets. one side for going up, the other for going down. and in that there's an overtaking lane, a slow lane and a hard shoulder. Course we can't even do it right in cars with a bloody test under our belt (hopefully) so how can we expect the general unwashed to follow the rules too...?

Boberto

p.pete wrote:

People walking along the street on front of you who just suddenly decide to stop, usually 2 people with a kid (for extra girth) making them impossible to swerve round at the last minute...

Yeah was gonna mention the exact thing. Happened a lot at xmas in town and drove me nuts!! ARGHHHH. Annoying especially on the likes of henry street.

There is enough evidence here to authorise the execution of all of them i think.. How should we proceed? :P

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Or idiots in long queues to pay for something who don't have their method of payment ready for the cashier, then spend half the day rummaging through their assorted pockets/bags/coats/purses/wallets/hair/shoes/bra(yes, I've seen it)/socks/trollies/or whatever for the cash/laser/creditcard/chequebook/pen/voucher/credit note they want to pay with. Look people, there is a long queue, get your money ready. And for the love of god granny, do not even attempt to pay for the €3.74 worth of things you just bought with them fecky little 1 and 2 cent coins. You have arthritis in your fingers, which means you aren't nimble enough to count them quickly, just hand over that fiver there.

Dr. Loon

Walking to work today down a long and wide pathway I came across a woman who had her rather large pram obstructing one half of the path and her rather large self obstructing the other. No way through. Being that the path is a long one, she saw me from ages away. Did she move her pram so I could pass? No, she looked at me like I was a lunatic as I had to go around her on the muddy grass. Fúckin bítch!

If I wasn't in a rush I might have stopped and asked if I could get by. She was a black woman though so I might have been accused of racism for some reason also. Bullshít.

kenmc

nother thing that f*ckin pisses me off no end is the GOB****ES in the airport who wait till they get to the checkin desk to find their passport/tickets etc, and the other GOB****ES who wait till they get right up to the security screening to find their keys coins phones etc and pull them out of various pockets and orifaces and put them onto the belt one at a time. They will then invariably proceed to set off the alarm anyway.
I mean usually you're in a queue for a few mins - might as well use it to collect all your bits, put them into the bag or jacket that you're gonna lob on the belt, and then you just saunter up, bag on the belt, through the arch, no beep, pick up the bag and go. you can then retrieve the wallet etc whilst pretending to be interested in the rip off in the duty free....

seamus

There'll always be a large proportion of the population who have trouble taking the rest of the world into consideration when acting. By and large, they tend to be women when driving or shopping.

I still can never figure people who stand in any type of queue and arrive at the top of the queue ill-prepared. It boggles the mind. Even if there's no queue, I usually stand to the side, and get myself ready before approaching. Particularly coming up to Airport security, stick everything in my jacket pockets, remove my jacket and then approach the gate.

BolBill

Simple answer : People are Ignorant, and Ignorance is bliss.

Also, nobody Irish calls their mobile "their cell" so Yankee Doodle outta here !!!

Cactus Col

My pet peeve is the group of 5+ people who insist on walking abreast of each other so they take up the whole path.

dudara

40crush41 wrote:

hate that! some people boggle my mind. and u know whats messed up? i got a friend -just had surgery on her ankle and shes on crutches. so i go around with her and help her carry her books from time to time and would u believe that kids cut her off at the door way? shes trying to get through and they can't wait a second for her to go through -which thus causes a mix up and clogging at the door way scene.

she was telling me that when she was alone in the hallway, she struggled to opened the door by herself. then this kid comes in from behind her and goes through the door she opened. not only did someone who was in the hallway with her at the time not open the door for this poor girl, but then went through the door first. what the hell is going on here?

haha -yeeaaaaa, i feel strongly about this issue apparently =P. but its true, some people are just rude. mmmhmm ~Beth

This I agree with. I spent two weeks on crutches after damaging my knee, and the sheer ignorance and unhelpfulness I encountered really took my breath away. In return, I developed a mean streak of poking my crutches into people.

The_Goose

Would ya just love to stay walking, straight through them, think they d get the message!!
People i hate in cues are the one s who blame the person behind the counter cause the **** in front couldnt decide which credit card to use!
But in the end we will just say excuse stand there or turn around because to do anything else would be unsocial behaviour! Well thats what the doctors told me ha ha

bacon?

fcuk em, just walk through em.

Lump

Just tell them to get out of the way..... no rocket science.


John

TwoShedsJackson

I hate people who bitch on the internet about their pet peeves or other pointless ****e about which I could not give a flying **** at a rolling doughnut.

kinkstr

BolBill wrote:

Simple answer : People are Ignorant, and Ignorance is bliss.

Also, nobody Irish calls their mobile "their cell" so Yankee Doodle outta here !!!

i call my mobile "my cell" but just to annoy people,
and in response to the people standing in doorways,tell them to get the fook out of the way,it works for me

joseph brand

Quote: Bolbill
Also, nobody Irish calls their mobile "their cell" so Yankee Doodle outta here !!!

Well said /claps!

"Hey Meen, I was like on my cell while I was like taking out the Garbage n stuff, all of a sudden I saw an AEROPLANE (spelling)

simu

kinkstr wrote:

i call my mobile "my cell" but just to annoy people,
and in response to the people standing in doorways,tell them to get the fook out of the way,it works for me

Cool! I sometimes pronounce leisure "leezure" and route "rowt" for the same reason.

Back on topic, I really hate people who block - it happens a lot in college. I also ended up jogging on an escalotor to save my feet recently because some cretin decided to stop just at the end point.

Third_Echelon

p.pete wrote:

People walking along the street on front of you who just suddenly decide to stop, usually 2 people with a kid (for extra girth) making them impossible to swerve round at the last minute...

this makes my blood boil..... one of my pet hates about other people.... :mad:

Chad ghostal

Im developing a laser, that will track my every movements,
anyone walking in front of me "unfairly" will get evaporated instantly,
leaving no trace or mess.

If anyone wants one call me at 1900IMNOTRCRAZY

seriously the sheer ignorance of some people is astonishing, three lads were sitting in the buggy spot on the bus, while a pregnant lady with a buggy was standing asking them to get up, but she was quiet and her english wasnt so good, EVENtually, when they noticed they said "What>?" and looked all pissed off....

when i said it to them clearly they eventually moved(in a huff), but ffs these people were around 19/20...:rolleyes:

HJ Simpson

People who walk across the exit of an escalator leaving no room and then look at you when you ram your trolley full of shopping into them. Happens in the square in Tallafornia a lot.

alleepally

Worse than the standing in door scenario is people who come off an escalator and don't walk forward off the escalator. What do they do? Stand just a little bit ahead to "get their bearings" in a shopping centre or whatever... On busy days this is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons.

But I firmly believe that normally intelligent people turn into mush when shopping and are so focused on what they must do and buy that all common sense goes out the window. My theory, not proven, but it's the only explanation I can think of for all this idiocy.

pork99

alleepally wrote:

Worse than the standing in door scenario is people who come off an escalator and don't walk forward off the escalator. What do they do? Stand just a little bit ahead to "get their bearings" in a shopping centre or whatever... On busy days this is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons.

This is just another one of those scenarios where a good reliable electric cattle prod would be oh so useful.

I'm always amazed at the sheer quantity of obtuse people wandering around. Why do they have to breed?

CuLT

Aye, people like this taught me to be an asshole while walking around town last year. I was going to a LC repeat school in town and I encoutered these dipsh*ts every day.

It's basically playing "chicken" while walking. If it's women I tend to be more polite about it.

Actually what really does my nut is drivers who don't obey the traiffic lights. Really God damn dangerous when you're walking and I've thrown the odd kick at cars that have broken them at congested pedestrian crossings.

Bard

HJ Simpson wrote:

People who walk across the exit of an escalator leaving no room and then look at you when you ram your trolley full of shopping into them. Happens in the square in Tallafornia a lot.

Stupid ignorant a**holes living in Tallaght? Will wonders ever cease...

Why hate certain types of people when just hating people in general is so much easier?... Give it a shot.

D!ve^Bomb!

i try and stay away from people.. i don't like them and they don't like me.. although i hate walking up the likes of grafton street on a sat afternoon when people just stop infront of you/walk across you, i do enjoy the feelin of literally PUSHING through them to the extent that they get extremely pissed off!! screw you and your shoppin!! get the fúck outta my way!

alleepally

D!ve^Bomb! wrote:

i try and stay away from people.. i don't like them and they don't like me.. although i hate walking up the likes of grafton street on a sat afternoon when people just stop infront of you/walk across you, i do enjoy the feelin of literally PUSHING through them to the extent that they get extremely pissed off!! screw you and your shoppin!! get the fúck outta my way!

Wish I could be like that coz I know I'd love to do it but I'm too fcukin polite for me own good .

nlgbbbblth

these people should be

a) castrated
b) spayed
c) shot in the face with a crossbow

slade_x

and what about some drivers out there who love nothing more than to stop a car on a road and have a nice chat with someone in a car coming on the opposite side of the road

Miles

BolBill wrote:

Simple answer : People are Ignorant, and Ignorance is bliss.

Also, nobody Irish calls their mobile "their cell" so Yankee Doodle outta here !!!

Actually I am Irish.

Musashi

If the offender is a young guy, I feel the need to ask "Do you play CS"?
Did no one ever tell you not to camp in doorways???
Move on!

Hal1

seansouth wrote:

Or idiots in long queues to pay for something who don't have their method of payment ready for the cashier, then spend half the day rummaging through their assorted pockets/bags/coats/purses/wallets/hair/shoes/bra(yes, I've seen it)/socks/trollies/or whatever for the cash/laser/creditcard/chequebook/pen/voucher/credit note they want to pay with. Look people, there is a long queue, get your money ready. And for the love of god granny, do not even attempt to pay for the €3.74 worth of things you just bought with them fecky little 1 and 2 cent coins. You have arthritis in your fingers, which means you aren't nimble enough to count them quickly, just hand over that fiver there.

evIl but dam straight :P