Manners

fluffnutter

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Maybe you just smell really nice?

People getting too close is one of my pet hates on the tube too. Why do people think it is acceptable to have their hands 10cm from your face whilst reading the paper? If I put my hands that close to their face with nothing in them they would think it was some kind of personal threat but because they are reading a paper they think it is ok to get that close! I just want to say "don't let my existence get in the way of you reading a paper!"

Next time I am going to nibble on one of their fingers.

I was on the train once sat at a table for four. A guy came and sat next to me, and tilted his body so that his legs were sticking out into the aisle (there's not an awful lot of room at those tables, to be fair) but it meant he was actually leaning against my left shoulder.

With his right hand he plonked his packet of cheese and onion McCoys on the table right in front of me, then proceeded to transfer said crisps into his mouth, whilst bringing his hand across my face and wafting the smell directly up my nose. These crisps were so close a small movement forwards and I could have eaten them myself.

somethingcorporate

fluffnutter wrote: »

I was on the train once sat at a table for four. A guy came and sat next to me, and tilted his body so that his legs were sticking out into the aisle (there's not an awful lot of room at those tables, to be fair) but it meant he was actually leaning against my left shoulder.

With his right hand he plonked his packet of cheese and onion McCoys on the table right in front of me, then proceeded to transfer said crisps into his mouth, whilst bringing his hand across my face and wafting the smell directly up my nose. These crisps were so close a small movement forwards and I could have eaten them myself.

You know what to do next time ? nom nom nom.

Azari

fluffnutter wrote: »

I was on the train once sat at a table for four. A guy came and sat next to me, and tilted his body so that his legs were sticking out into the aisle (there's not an awful lot of room at those tables, to be fair) but it meant he was actually leaning against my left shoulder.

With his right hand he plonked his packet of cheese and onion McCoys on the table right in front of me, then proceeded to transfer said crisps into his mouth, whilst bringing his hand across my face and wafting the smell directly up my nose. These crisps were so close a small movement forwards and I could have eaten them myself.

On the plus side, at least they weren't salt and vinegar!

shortstop

The usual not saying please or thank you really get me. Or the fact that people judge/treat you differently by the way you dress!
Drivers who don't indicate really gets me, just indicate! Or people who don't know where they are going so just slow right down or stop altogether in the middle of the road to consult their map or directions, I understand if your lost/looking for somewhere, but just pull over, there's a queue of traffic behind you!
Also cars who pass when I'm out on the horse, I ride on quiet lanes near my yard so don't often come across much traffic but when they do they seem to either get really close behind or pass so close I could touch them when there's nothing else on the road and plenty of room to pass with a nice space between. The horse I ride is pretty much bomb proof but even he gets a bit fidgety when somethings that close.

fluffnutter

somethingcorporate wrote: »

You know what to do next time ? nom nom nom.

I don't like McCoys

wik

One of my biggest bugbears is drivers who don't know how to say thank you!!
I spent 12 years living on an island off the west coast of Scotland, and there were many single roads, so drivers were very polite in pulling over to let people overtake from behind, as well as pulling into passing places to let oncoming cars get by..
I know live in rural part of England, in a small village, the mornings I work I leave the village at about 8.15am, as do several other cars, we have to drive a 3 mile single track road to the main road, so if I happen to be first to leave the village I pull over to let them pass, not once have they raised a hand to wave any thanks... One morning I may just poodle along at 35mph just cos I am in front
To say thanks as you pass a car cant be that hard can it?

rustyboy21

Hmm71 wrote: »

I think that's a bit unfair and rather rude of you yourself rustyboy. A few years ago I had a nasal problem and my nose was permanently blocked, blowing it did no good. Wouldn't it be more polite of you to find out if the person has a medical problem first before having a go at them about their heavy breathing/blocked nose?

It was to a colleague who I don't particularly like and who doesn't like me.

Not said it to anyone else, so get off your soapbox.

heretolearn_2

I chew gum myself at times but I do so as quietly and discretely as possible, mouth closed, no slurping, it freshens my breath before a meeting for example (not DURING the meeting, no). And I just swallow it when I've done, it's an old wives tale that you shouldn't.

I hate gum all over pavements.
I hate slurpers and chompers.

I especially hate the woman I had to sit next to for 6 hours at a tutorial who sat slurping open mouthed like a cow chewing the cud on a massive wad of gym for the whole 6 hours. The noise made me feel sick and I honestly couldn't hear what some people were saying because of the noise. We had to do group stuff and every time she turned to me with her filthy gob hanging open and that gum going round and round like she was a human washing machine, I wanted to slap her. She was in her 50s or 60s so shouldn't she have known better? She really was foul and it ruined my day. I couldn't think how to ask her not to without it getting awkward - she obviously had no concept of it not being ok.

Saturnalia

In a shop queue the other day, a man pushed a buggy with his little lad in close enough to me that the boy was swinging his legs and kicking the backs of mine. Not the child's fault and I thought when the queue moved forward the space would even out. But when I moved forward, the man pushed the buggy further forward again, so I asked him nicely if he could move it back a couple of inches as his son was kicking me. He went beserk shouting at me that his son was doing nothing wrong and how dare I accuse him! I said the lad wasn't doing anything wrong, he was just amusing himself because his feet could reach me, so could he move back a tad so it didn't happen? Luckily by this time the man in front of me had been served quickly and it was my turn at the till so I moved but the man was still yelling and bawling, and by this time had set the child off crying, which I got blamed for as well (as opposed to the dad stopping his yelling and seeing to his frightened son, of course)!

I also got into it on the Tube this morning. A woman got on clutching a big can of Red Bull & by the looks of her it wasn't her first! She was jigging about without holding the handrail and every time the train bounced she was flung into someone. So maybe I was the rude one here but I told her, quite loudly, to stand up still with both feet on the floor and hold the handrail, and that it's bad enough being in a confined space in this heat without her deliberately acting the goat. She did as she was told and I got quite a few muffled "well said"s from the others she'd bounced into. So perhaps I was the rude one there but the end justified the means IMO.

Kantankrus_Mare

I went into my local Spar shop the other day for a paper.

"Morning" I said to the cashier. No reaction.

I paid for the paper and said "Thank you. Bye"

She completely ignored me and walked off to carry on what she was doing previously.

I was livid and got to the door and said loudly "BYE!!!!"

She looked up in shock and said "bye" grudgingly.

What is wrong with people??

I work in the service industry and am always polite or at least I try to be.

Saturdays bring out the monsters of society though.

Rude families that have no manners and very demanding.!!

Saying that.........the majority of our customers are lovely.

Shame you only remember the rude ones and the ones that let their kids run all over restaurant getting in staffs way.