People standing too close
Discussion
Im probably just ranting here, but it really gets me wound up when people stand too close to me, for example:
This morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant t
ts who
This morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant t
ts who 
Mike400 said:
Im probably just ranting here, but it really gets me wound up when people stand too close to me, for example:
This morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant tts who
Simply.....YESThis morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant t
ts who Mike400 said:
Im probably just ranting here, but it really gets me wound up when people stand too close to me, for example:
This morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant tts who
Yep, annoys me too. I normally just glare at them....if you turn round to face them, then their miscalculation of presonal space becomes more apparent!This morning using a cash machine, and the zombie behind was near breathing down my neck, and standing slightly to my right so he could see the screen if he wanted to. Happens nearly every time I use a cash machine now. Usually if someone is in front of me at a machine I give them a bit of breathing space ffs...
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's hand bag kept banging into me everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
quite a few similar instances over the weekend, enough to make me ask:
Am I over reacting? and if not, how do you deal with ignorant t
ts who Mike400 said:
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's handbag kept banging into mine everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
EFA.
Glad you bought this up actually. There's a guy I struggle (not physically, yet) with most mornings on the train platform. Why can't this guy stand in a queue with everyone else. He's about 8ft and 4 stone and HAS to stand at right angles to everyone else in (I guess) an attempt to be an intimidating kinda action. I hate it. It bothers me, but I have been rather restained so far. Do people like this need to be noticed? Need/want to be feared......or simply need a slap.
my natural reaction was to turn with a look of disgust on my face, which soon saw her stop it immediatly 
I find people of a sub continent extraction have a real problem with personal space, I like a good foot and half minimum around me at all times, the other day i had some fellow of Sri Lankan heritage literally inches behind me at the checkout, I had to ask him to move back. That sounds trite but i do not wish to be breathing other peoples pheromones if i don't have to.
Chilli said:
Glad you bought this up actually. There's a guy I struggle (not physically, yet) with most mornings on the train platform. Why can't this guy stand in a queue with everyone else. He's about 8ft and 4 stone and HAS to stand at right angles to everyone else in (I guess) an attempt to be an intimidating kinda action. I hate it. It bothers me, but I have been rather restained so far. Do people like this need to be noticed? Need/want to be feared......or simply need a slap.
if hes that thin he probably fears being knocked down
oilandwater said:
I'm with Mike400 on this one. If they get too close in a suppermarket queue, while I'm packing my bags, I usualy ask if they are going to pay for the goods as well, being as I now can't get to the cashier. They follow you to the end of the packing bit, old people and young.
Usually not helped by the f*ckwits manning the tills who start throwing the next shoppers shopping down to the packing bit while you are still trying to lift yours into your trolley....m4tthew said:
Mike400 said:
Waiting in a queue in argos, the mother and daughter behind me standing so close that the mother's handbag kept banging into mine everytime she turned to speak to her daughter. I kept moving forward a few inches to give myself some space yet they done the same. FFS.
EFA.
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