Zero Situational Awareness

A woman of that age actually skipped me in the queue once in Lidl, I said nothing because I thought she must have been in front of me and I hadn't noticed but the guy working the till said did she just skip the queue? unreal.

This is a pure pain. I’ll go into the supermarket to pick up one or two things and I’ll know before hand exactly what I’m getting and where it is in the shop. Every time without fail there’ll be someone with a trolley having a “does not compute” moment staring into the shelf or a fridge for ages like they’ve never seen a carton of milk before in their lives.

I always give them a minute or 2, it's a country road not a motorway, it could be someone having a chat that hasn't met anyone in a day or 2 and wants a little human interaction or 2 farmers trying to organise a man to stand in a gap or move a few bales. It's nice to see a slower pace of life in country areas and not be rushing around like worker bees

Well, yes and no.

Of course it's irritating when you want to get in and out asap, but I'm of an age to remember when there were two people at every checkout desk, one to put your stuff through and another to pack it for you. So now we pay to do that work ourselves - and the people behind get cross if someone is a bit slow or confused. And more of the already rare jobs that don't require specialist training are removed from the economy forever. Mostly to the loss of students and mothers who aren't available for a high-skilled specialised job that requires her to be available full time.

More generally, I have to say all this blaming of older and infirm individuals for not being very effective at carrying out services that shops could perfectly well provide for us if they weren't so determined to screw the consumer out of every single penny gets on my nerves.

Not so much inconveniencing me, it's just good situational awareness and anticipation. I always pass someone on the no-dog side even if it means changing sides.

I think it's always been like this but as more people communicate over sm we start to realise we're not the only one putting up with the gormless 🙄

BBlocking doors, stairs, staring at oriduce as though never seen before,,realising they have to pay after putting away the messages in alphabetical order🥺😁

The ones with the full trolley in lidls who have to organise their shopping into separate bags to convenience unpacking at home. Yes I know it suits do many and the unfortunate shop assistant is too afraid to say anybut hardly fair on others.

I could go on, but am currethrowing the ball for my spaniel in our garden and this post will only rise my blood oressure😉😁😁

Noticed in holidays recently that tourists particularly Asians stop anywhere, in a door entrance, on top of steps and, end of a stairs, often in a dangerous spot and start posing for photos with their latest iPhone or fancy camera.

Also when waiting for a bus, you see some old biddy start rooting through her bag for coins when she gets on the bus to pay, despite waiting the last 10 minutes for the bus, she then holds up everyone behind her as well as the poor driver.

Also when the plane lands, there's these people who delay everyone else because they're not ready to get off the plane when the plane door opens, they start fannying about then to get their crap together, when they could of done that the previous 15 minutes.

Lastly, when going through security, have your stuff ready, liquids ready, belt ready to take off, stuff out of your pockets, and don't act like this is all a surprise.

So?

Maybe they should change the system of payment, or just have more people behind the counter, if it's really that much of a problem for someone who maybe hasn't been there before and doesn't know exactly what's available?

The other day I was buying petrol at a motorway service station where they've changed the system since I was last there: now you prepay for your petrol and then go back and serve yourself. Grandd, except that it was the same queue where people were ordering coffees, pastries etc, and it was clearly breakfast time - there were at least 6 of them. All I wanted to do was hand my card over and get back to the petrol pump: 10 seconds? It was so ridiculous I wondered if I'd misunderstood what I was meant to do, but no, that was it.

Still. I didn't blame the people in front of me. They're entitled to order their breakfasts.

It is socially acceptable, it's just not legal😅

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Zero situational awareness usually comes with main character syndrome

Na, women can be cuntz too.