Whatever happened to spatial awareness?
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Special harness? No, spatial awareness - as in people knowing what things are in their immediate vicinity and being able to avoid knocking into them. This seems to be something of a dying art in this country. Take a visit to the supermarket, for a start. It always amazes me that people think it's a good idea to park their trolley right behind someone who has bent down to get something off a shelf. As the person grasps their tin of baked beans, in a 'Eureka moment', they straighten up and step back - and crash into the abandoned trolley. (That was me, today). |
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Another amusing little idea is to wait until someone is unpacking their basket at the tills, trying to find their purse and at the same time, talk to the cashier. Then is precisely the optimum moment for some enormous bloke to squeeze his way through the till area, having wandered around and decided not to buy anything. Great. A bit of warning like muttering 'Excuse me' wouldn't go amiss but apparently, that's just too much trouble. So you're half way through paying and you get jabbed in the backside and drop your debit card. |
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Further pitfalls await you the minute you venture out of the supermarket and try to get some money from the cash point. Again, there are certain shoppers who just love to park their pushchair or push-bike behind you while you're at the ATM grappling with your purse, pressing buttons and can't see because the sun's shining on the screen. Having positioned some obstacle right behind you, they go and talk to someone and look surprised when you fall to the ground. Spatial awareness... where did it go? By: Fedupinwales |
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Those silent and deadly electronic disability 'bikes'..lethal!!!!!!!!! And they are allowed INSIDE supermarkets.And malls and other large stores.
TWO were parked inside a theatre...no one on them.Right by the leaflets section.Couldn't reach.A by law will come...meanwhile the numbers of these space taking lethal weapons ridden by incompetents increases.Some people on these can walk.What is going on?
TWO were parked inside a theatre...no one on them.Right by the leaflets section.Couldn't reach.A by law will come...meanwhile the numbers of these space taking lethal weapons ridden by incompetents increases.Some people on these can walk.What is going on?
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I'm glad it's not just me too! When I have to go to public places, which fortunately is not very often, I try to keep as far away from others as possible, and I appreciate and expect the same from them. My absolute worst is having someone standing so close behind me that I can smell and feel their fetid breath on the back of my neck. I wonder if they think they will get anywhere faster by behaving in this way.
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I`m glad that it`s not just me, I have always wondered if I have a people magnet inside me somewhere, as I seem to be a target for any wandering toddler, & other miscellanious idiots who just don`t see me right in front of them. Only a couple of weeks ago I was posting a letter, minding my own business, when this woman smacked into me, Then just smirked at me as if I`d made her day, then just walked on without saying sorry like a civilised person would, but then civilised people tend to look where they`re going!
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I get really fed up with women who use those massive tank like pushchairs as a weapon in crowds.
They just aim them straight ahead and nothing gets in their way, and when did a simple baby buggy stop having just four wheels in favour of eight? Or those silly, three wheeled jobs that are about five feet long?
They buy the biggest buggy they can find, load them up with about a month's worth of shopping, then expect to get them down the aisle of a bus and wonder why people get a teensy bit irritated when slapped in the face with a bag full of frozen food from Iceland!
They just aim them straight ahead and nothing gets in their way, and when did a simple baby buggy stop having just four wheels in favour of eight? Or those silly, three wheeled jobs that are about five feet long?
They buy the biggest buggy they can find, load them up with about a month's worth of shopping, then expect to get them down the aisle of a bus and wonder why people get a teensy bit irritated when slapped in the face with a bag full of frozen food from Iceland!
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Or how about pushing a wheelchair with trolley attached round a supermarket? Infinitely more difficult than even the largest trolley with children mounted on it (I know - I have experience of both!). You 'park' the trolley and wheelchair to one side to get something you cannot reach due to the number of idiots around the shelves (just bloody pick one - it's only MILK). Then when you get back someone has pushed their trolley right up to the wheelchair handles and is looking at you as if to say 'well move then, you are keeping me waiting'. This happened to me the other week. 'Do you want me to move?' 'Yes'. she replied exasperated. 'Then I would suggest you let me behind the wheelchair or we will be here all day. So sorry my mother's disability is SUCH an inconvenience to you - do forgive us.' (said with extreme sarcasm and volume). Said idiot skittered away rapidly.
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So.. who's lacking spatial awareness in these scenarios again?
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The Judge - I did that on a few occasions. The last time I did it, I was stabbed repeatedly in the arms, tummy and once in the leg. I needed an illiostomy bag for 6 months.
This was from 2 x 19 and 2 x 21 year olds. The other lads involved just used my head as a punch/footall.
Most annoying thing was how I asked repeatedly for them to move by saying "excuse me".
This was from 2 x 19 and 2 x 21 year olds. The other lads involved just used my head as a punch/footall.
Most annoying thing was how I asked repeatedly for them to move by saying "excuse me".
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I loathe people who park their shopping trolley behind my mum's wheelchair and attached disabled trolley as I go and collect something, rather than get in everyone's way. Then they stand and stare at me expecting me to somehow be able to push mum out of the way even though they have their trolley right up to the handles of her wheelchair. Half-wits.
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I go to the supermarket first thing in the morning when they just open it is quiet fully stocked and you can go round in peace without idiots getting in your way.
I avoid shopping in town as much as possible buying 80% of stuff I need online if I do have to unfortunately go to the shopping centre for something I go first thing in the morning again when it is nice and quiet.
I never go at weekends,bank holidays or school holidays I just get my wife to go in those times I hate crowded shopping centres.
I avoid shopping in town as much as possible buying 80% of stuff I need online if I do have to unfortunately go to the shopping centre for something I go first thing in the morning again when it is nice and quiet.
I never go at weekends,bank holidays or school holidays I just get my wife to go in those times I hate crowded shopping centres.
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Unfortunately as Britain becomes over populated with people who really shouldn't be allowed to breed (we were warned about this 70 odd years ago) we need to change our habits a bit so we can avoid most of them. For a supermarket it is easy, home delivery for £5! now that is a small price to pay, I haven't been in a supermarket for months! Not too sure about cash machines though, people must be getting their benefits out by cash machine now otherwise they would be pretty redundant wouldn't they! I bet it's some Govt policy "let them look normal and not feel embarrassed about going to the job centre once a week for their money" well those that CAN still feel embarrassed.
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I dislike it when people start chatting in the middle of supermarket isles; I do know that you meet people you may have not seen for a while, but we always find a quiet part of the supermarket where you can easily move out of the way or wait and go to the restaurant or carpark before we pursue out chat.
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Many years ago on an Intercity train I was walking down the gangway when a middle-age woman stepped out from her seat into the gangway and walked into me.
She got nasty with me telling me to watch where I was going and to get out of her way. I pointed out that she didn't look where she was going before she stepped out and she was obstructing my path.
She then tried to be clever and said that if I saw her coming I should have waited, so she looked for every opportunity to faulter me and I made it clear that I had right of way already walking along the gangway.
She was stubborn and became so patronising and belittling with her comments I said to her in a loud voice "I don't care what you think you miserable old cow, so stop trying to blame me for your mistake. I am not getting out of your way as you are the one who is obstructing my way" and everyone went silent. She then started crying.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was a retired teacher and used to talking down to everyone who didn't obey her.
I also have a cousin like this who is big and tries to be macho pushing his way about thinking all revolves around him.
She got nasty with me telling me to watch where I was going and to get out of her way. I pointed out that she didn't look where she was going before she stepped out and she was obstructing my path.
She then tried to be clever and said that if I saw her coming I should have waited, so she looked for every opportunity to faulter me and I made it clear that I had right of way already walking along the gangway.
She was stubborn and became so patronising and belittling with her comments I said to her in a loud voice "I don't care what you think you miserable old cow, so stop trying to blame me for your mistake. I am not getting out of your way as you are the one who is obstructing my way" and everyone went silent. She then started crying.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was a retired teacher and used to talking down to everyone who didn't obey her.
I also have a cousin like this who is big and tries to be macho pushing his way about thinking all revolves around him.
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Loudmouth of Coventry Blaze - 22-Apr-10 16:44
Clarite, in supermarkets, I find it's the OAP's that cause more problems. 9/10 my rammed ankles, blocked routes, blocked in incidents are caused by them. I've already mentioned on another gripe about having heaving aisles in a store and being rammed constantly by the same old couple that ignored my polite pleas to stop it. In the end, with both of them ramming my feet and gentlemans area while I asked them to stop it yet again, I pushed the trolley into them and pinned them against a freezer and turned their trolley round and pushed it away. Told them to "go fetch".
Did I feel remorse after? Yes. I hate having to physiclly push people, especially the elderly. Nearly a dozen ramming incidents in the space of 30 seconds just because the people infront were not moving, meant that after my pleas were ignored and I turned their trolley round, I was taken and ejected from the shop by security because they were the victims of a callous assult by a mean huge, muscle clad male with sharp teeth and devilish horns wanting to take their souls through the checkout.
Emma, I had a sort of similar incident happen, only when told to "go fk yourself" and pushed, did I get into my old banger and drive down the side of their car.... 2 years and still no repurcusion lol.
Did I feel remorse after? Yes. I hate having to physiclly push people, especially the elderly. Nearly a dozen ramming incidents in the space of 30 seconds just because the people infront were not moving, meant that after my pleas were ignored and I turned their trolley round, I was taken and ejected from the shop by security because they were the victims of a callous assult by a mean huge, muscle clad male with sharp teeth and devilish horns wanting to take their souls through the checkout.
Emma, I had a sort of similar incident happen, only when told to "go fk yourself" and pushed, did I get into my old banger and drive down the side of their car.... 2 years and still no repurcusion lol.
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emma, you were bullied. He wouldn't have done that to a car full of men like himself. He would have said yes, sir, no, sir, threes bags full sir? He is the weak one. You were abused but he was the coward.
You could have reported him by his plate and described it as a hit and run. The police take a dim view of h.a.r.
You could have reported him by his plate and described it as a hit and run. The police take a dim view of h.a.r.
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I totally agree with you, and the ridiculous way people treat each other. Yesterday I was filling up with petrol when a huge man in a white van (with his partner and child) drove next to my car even though there were 2 other pumps free (and petrol cap side) and smacked his door on purpose on my wing mirror. I went over to him and asked why did he do that? He didn't look at me and said "It's already got scratches on it, I don't give a f***; you should have given me move space" I couldn't believe it. When he paid he smacked my car again, drove off with the window open laughing. I felt so upset, and intimidated.
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I went shopping in Wales once and at least twice while walking round I had to avoid Sheep wandering round the streets and people speaking their native tongue and spitting all over the place!
Miserablemoaninggit yes they do have Supermarkets in Wales there poshest one is called Lidl.
Miserablemoaninggit yes they do have Supermarkets in Wales there poshest one is called Lidl.
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Zammo just say no.......NO! - 14-Apr-10 21:26
I know what your`e talking about, as I almost went flat on my back a while back in Sainsbury`s, all because some stupid breeder parked her baby`s pram right behind me while I was looking at the magazines. I think these people are genetically bankrupt.
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I think people in general are selfish, bad mannered and generally too wrapped up in their own little world to consider anyone else. (Nine times out of ten, they are talking or texting on their mobile at the same time). I tend to push trolleys out of the way, if they are blocking the aisle and then I get dirty looks, as if to say "how dare you". I've stopped griping about it recently, as, sadly, I have come to the conclusion that bad manners and lack of consideration from others is something I have to live with.
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What gets me are people who will step in front of you and then stop, making you bump into them. My local supermarket tends to restock their shelves during the day, leaving large trolleys in the middle of the aisles and the attendants drivinng them as if they have priority over the customers. I find that as our little world gets crowded, people are fighting for space and will take it wherever and whenever they can by sheer selfishness. I feel sorry for the old folks who are not so fast on their feet and cannot avoid oncoming trolleys and pushchairs. They surely remember a time when life was so much easier and when people had space. Spacial awareness did not come into it, it was not needed. Take a look at countries with high populations and you will notice that they do not care for their own spacial space, they have learned to live close to one another. Are we going to have to do the same soon or are we going to learn to give space to others?
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'What? They have supermarkets in Wales? And ATM's? Wow! I'll have to pay that little old place a visit one of these days.' miserablemoaninggit
Croeso I Cymru x
Croeso I Cymru x
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