Height Of Rudeness

One of my favourites is when you're in a shop and go to pay at the counter. You're standing there with your groceries and the staff (usually boys and girls in their late teens/early twenties) continue on their own non-work-related conversation when it's evident that you're waiting to be served. When they do eventually kindly grant you their attention, they don't make eye contact, say hello or any other pleasantry and, needless to say, they don't say thank you. This type of shop worker should be taken out and maimed.

Another that comes to mind is when you're walking along a narrow pathway beside a busy road. Approaching from the opposite direction walk two people, either a couple hand-in-hand or two women aged between twenty and sixty, yapping away to each other (sorry if that sounds sexist but unfortunately it's true. In my experience this rarely happens if two men are walking the opposite direction).

Instead of forming a single file to allow you to pass (which would be the courteous thing to do), the couple don't even consider for a second to make enough space and so you have no choice but to step out on to the busy road. This sort of bad manners astonishes me.

Incidentally I've noticed if you deliberately walk on the inside of the path, the approaching couple, whether consciously or not, will break into a single file. Still, I've had people tut-tutting at me for forcing them to break formation. That always makes me smile.

What drives me into a red rage is people who don't turn off the television when you are trying to have a conversation.

Their eyes keep sliding away over your shoulder to the flickering screen...(so you know that their ears and their attention are doing so as well). It's completely insulting.

I believe it also predicts Alzheimers...by shortening the attention span to mere seconds. I like this thought. *gnash*

katemarch wrote: »

What drives me into a red rage is people who don't turn off the television when you are trying to have a conversation.

Their eyes keep sliding away over your shoulder to the flickering screen...(so you know that their ears and their attention are doing so as well). It's completely insulting.

That's fine but it's another story if you just decide you want to have a conversation with someone whilst they're already engaged in watching something on TV.

I've handed money to people a few times in shops/bars and when I've put my hand out to take my change they plonk it down on the counter.

It's a small thing but it bugs the sh!t out of me.

ChunkyLover54 wrote: »

Another that comes to mind is when you're walking along a narrow pathway beside a busy road. Approaching from the opposite direction walk two people, either a couple hand-in-hand or two women aged between twenty and sixty, yapping away to each other (sorry if that sounds sexist but unfortunately it's true. In my experience this rarely happens if two men are walking the opposite direction).

Instead of forming a single file to allow you to pass (which would be the courteous thing to do), the couple don't even consider for a second to make enough space and so you have no choice but to step out on to the busy road. This sort of bad manners astonishes me.

Incidentally I've noticed if you deliberately walk on the inside of the path, the approaching couple, whether consciously or not, will break into a single file. Still, I've had people tut-tutting at me for forcing them to break formation. That always makes me smile.

I hate this! Really ignorant. I've stopped stepping onto the road for people that do this, draw attention to their rudeness.

Another thing that bugs me is right at the end of a transaction, when the person in front of you is trying to put their money/purse back in their bag, and the next customer just tries to barge pass them to put their items on the counter with no regard at all for them. I always tell them (politely) to just hold on a second and I'll be with them. People shouldn't be forced to walk away from the till with their money on show, you never know who's watching for their next target!

Into The Blue wrote: »

Not making eye contact with everyone in a discussion.

Middle age/old born again cyclists who like to pretend they're in the tour de France and cycle around in a peloton, blocking the roads.

I find that extremely difficult to do iff theres more than 2 people. Its not rudeness..I think I just have bad social skills

_meehan_ wrote: »

Another thing that bugs me is right at the end of a transaction, when the person in front of you is trying to put their money/purse back in their bag, and the next customer just tries to barge pass them to put their items on the counter with no regard at all for them. I always tell them (politely) to just hold on a second and I'll be with them. People shouldn't be forced to walk away from the till with their money on show, you never know who's watching for their next target!

To be honest I think checkout operators are as much guilty if not even more guilty than other customers on this one a lot of the time. Presumably you work in a convenience shop such as Centra/ Spar/ Applegreen as its a case of the next customer putting their items on the counter as opposed to them already being on the belt as in the likes of Dunnes or Tesco. but whichever it is I often would see the checkout operator beckoning on the next punter before who is already at the till and has had a chance to pack their bags/ round up their items let alone put their change back in their purse/ wallet. It would clearly seem that your not guilty of this though...

^^^Point taken