Venting Frustration: Slow People and Routine Tasks

[DanP]

I hate people who don't walk quickly at a pedestrian crossing in a parking lot. There are some unwritten rules, that I unwrote, for pedestrian crossing etiquette.
You don't immediately cross, assuming the driver will stop.

Dont stop. Hit me on a crossing lane, and Ill guarantee you, my lawyers will eat you alive. After you'll face criminal charges of course, should you do physical damage, or kill someone. I am sure the judge will be thrilled to listen to your "pedestrian etiquette"

 

[cronxeh]

Dont stop. Hit me on a crossing lane, and Ill guarantee you, my lawyers will eat you alive. After you'll face criminal charges of course, should you do physical damage, or kill someone. I am sure the judge will be thrilled to listen to your "pedestrian etiquette"

Ahahah. This just gave me a flashback to few years ago when I was sitting on street corner, as usual, and this guy (lets call him a New Yorker) was crossing the crosswalk, and this other guy was making a turn, and I guess they did not negotiate or make eyecontact or whatnot, and the driver runs into the guy, his left front wheel sliding onto the right foot of the guy. The funny thing is, the pedestrian turns into him, and punches the windshield on driver side, cursing and yelling. I was like OHYEAH!

Well cops got there, and guess what. Punching a window is a no-no. That was a criminal mischief. The guy received a ticket from cops, an icepack from us, and a stern talking to. The driver did not get any tickets, but there was a police report generated.

 

[Jack21222]

One day I heard someone say the same thing about the persons who take the elevator for 1 floor. The point is, we never know why someone stops in a doorway, or takes the elevator for one floor only. We think we know. But maybe, the person who took the elevator for 1 floor has arthritic knees. Or gout. Just get around them. An agile person will just make way around them or if he is a bit more aggressive it will just say "Im sorry" and gently guide them out of its way.

I've never heard anybody complain about taking the elevator for one floor. I do that all the time, and there is usually a good reason behind it. In some cases, the stairs are NOWHERE NEAR the elevator. The elevator will put me right at the door, while the steps are at the other end of the building. Another reason I would take the elevator is if I don't know where the stairs are. Instead of wandering around like a lost puppy dog looking for the stairs, it's easier to take the elevator.

 

[Ken Natton]

I must confess to belonging to the group that gets very frustrated at other people dawdling and getting in my way, when they have all the time in the world and I have none. And I have blood pressure issues and shouldn’t allow myself to get stressed. But however many times I resolve to not to let it get to me, when the situation arises, it’s nearly impossible to abide by that. One of my pet hates is in a busy department store, for example, riding a heavily laden escalator. Somebody ahead of you steps off and then immediately stops. And then they wonder why everyone behind them isn’t happy with them.

It was thus quite therapeutic when a former colleague of mine, sat one late evening in the bar, had a group of us in fits of laughter relating a story about another colleague, whom we all knew to be one of these painfully slow people, at the cashpoint – ATM – being repeatedly turned down, trying different cards, turning round with a cheerful “Oh dear!” each time he took his card out and immediately plugged it back in again, while an ever growing queue of people behind him got steadily more agitated.

 

[leroyjenkens]

Your unwritten rules presume that the car has the right of way, and the driver is doing the pedestrian a favour by letting him cross. This is not true.

No, it doesn't presume that at all. It's just courtesy.

Dont stop. Hit me on a crossing lane, and Ill guarantee you, my lawyers will eat you alive. After you'll face criminal charges of course, should you do physical damage, or kill someone. I am sure the judge will be thrilled to listen to your "pedestrian etiquette"

Calm down, killer. This was just how people should act to be courteous towards one another. Just because you have the right of way, doesn't mean you can't wave to be courteous.
I was pointing out the "don't just walk across" part because people will not even look at you as they walk across, not speeding up at all, like you're not even there. That's just rude, I don't care if you have the right of way or not.
But I'm glad you're prepared to let somebody run you over just so you can sue them. Good trade; you lose use of your legs and they go to jail. Awesome, everyone wins.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I just don't get how some people can be be so slow at doing the little mundane things. In my mind, these are the things that you try to get through as quickly as possible in order to save time for those things that it is worth spending time on.

I know exactly how you feel. I am by nature a very impatient person - always in a hurry unless I am doing exactly what I want to be doing!

Many folks really have nothing else to do. A trip to the store to return cans, then to the cash outlet to cash a welfare check, and a final stop by the State liquor store, is a day.

Where we live, the biggest danger is getting behind a large farm vehicle on a long, narrow road. They drive about 15 mph and often have no way to let you pass.

In Los Angeles, the gang bangers like to walk reeeeeeeally slow to show how cool they are.

 

[turbo]

There is a beverage store a couple of towns over that sells no fragranced products, so I can feel relatively safe stopping into buy some beer, a bottle or two of wine, etc. Unfortunately, they also sell scratch-off lottery tickets, and you can easily kill 5 minutes behind some loon that has to exercise all their psychic powers deciding which of the more than 20 types of scratch-off tickets to buy. "I'll take 2 of the #18... and 1 of the #4... and 3 of the #9." "No! make that 1 of the #17... 2 of the #6... and 3 of the #10!" I contemplate murder on such days. (BTW, the ellipses are there for a reason.)

 

[cronxeh]

There is a beverage store a couple of towns over that sells no fragranced products, so I can feel relatively safe stopping into buy some beer, a bottle or two of wine, etc. Unfortunately, they also sell scratch-off lottery tickets, and you can easily kill 5 minutes behind some loon that has to exercise all their psychic powers deciding which of the more than 20 types of scratch-off tickets to buy. "I'll take 2 of the #18... and 1 of the #4... and 3 of the #9." "No! make that 1 of the #17... 2 of the #6... and 3 of the #10!" I contemplate murder on such days. (BTW, the ellipses are there for a reason.)

You had me at wine, but then the loon man cork blocking the register almost spazzed me out

 

[turbo]

You had me at wine, but then the loon man cork blocking the register almost spazzed me out

The worst ones are the nuts that have to scratch off their new tickets at the counter before getting out of the way. If they win ANY money, they invariably buy more tickets. Scratch-tickets should only be sold through vending machines!

 

[mugaliens]

There is a beverage store a couple of towns over that sells no fragranced products, so I can feel relatively safe stopping into buy some beer, a bottle or two of wine, etc. Unfortunately, they also sell scratch-off lottery tickets, and you can easily kill 5 minutes behind some loon that has to exercise all their psychic powers deciding which of the more than 20 types of scratch-off tickets to buy. "I'll take 2 of the #18... and 1 of the #4... and 3 of the #9." "No! make that 1 of the #17... 2 of the #6... and 3 of the #10!" I contemplate murder on such days. (BTW, the ellipses are there for a reason.)

On a particularly frustrating day I told my friend behind the counter, "give me a call when she she's done" and left.

I know - not very nice. But when it takes him less than 30 seconds to ring up 8 different ticket purchases while it took her more than four minutes to sit there and select them with a growing line of 13 people (by the time I left) in a convenience store, something's wrong. I left because after four minutes, she was nowhere close to being done. Some big list in her hand and she was keeping her place with her thumb about a third of the way down it.

Have you ever seen thirteen people in line at a convenience store? Until that day, I've never seen more than five.

I'm of the impression they should all be electronic kiosks located separately from the counter. If you don't have a credit card you could purchase tokens at the register in less than 20 seconds. If you run out of tokens and still want to play, then you must get back in line.

I never play the lotto.

 

[Jack21222]

On a particularly frustrating day I told my friend behind the counter, "give me a call when she she's done" and left.

I know - not very nice. But when it takes him less than 30 seconds to ring up 8 different ticket purchases while it took her more than four minutes to sit there and select them with a growing line of 13 people (by the time I left) in a convenience store, something's wrong. I left because after four minutes, she was nowhere close to being done. Some big list in her hand and she was keeping her place with her thumb about a third of the way down it.

Have you ever seen thirteen people in line at a convenience store? Until that day, I've never seen more than five.

I'm of the impression they should all be electronic kiosks located separately from the counter. If you don't have a credit card you could purchase tokens at the register in less than 20 seconds. If you run out of tokens and still want to play, then you must get back in line.

I never play the lotto.

And never try to discuss probability theory with those people. It never ends well.

 

[fuzzyfelt]

 

[lisab]

 

[cronxeh]

Oooh I woulda ran over that slimy...


My other big pet peeve is people crossing the road just ANYWHERE and not on crosswalk on green. OOOOH

As my buddy would say.. "you got knocked the f out!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pFpqrSsczc