PSA: Crowding me in a check-out line does not make my transaction go faster.

[Coventina]

You're just being rude!



Sorry, just got back from Target, and had a woman all over my business, while the cashier was still ringing my things up!
Drives me crazy!!!!

[Horse with no Name]

1. So when that happens

I put my cart behind me and push them away. It’s so incredibly rude.

[onecaliberal]

12. I always do that so no one can be near me. Learned in covid.

[Rebl2]

35. Same here!

[MLAA]

2. Next time cough and say, it's probably not Covid, I mean my husband/wife and 3 kids have Covid but I feel fine.

[yagotme]

3. LOL!!! nt

[LogDog75]

11. Years ago, a friend of mine had a similar response

He'd cough and thump his chest and say "Goddamn TB!."

[Rebl2]

36. 😉

[yagotme]

4. Or tell them,

"If you're so interested in my purchases, perhaps you would like to pay for them, too."

[SocialDemocrat61]

5. I know

Can’t understand what people like that are thinking

[Iggo]

9. They're not.

[nilram]

6. I plant my feet in one place

And don't move them until the transaction is complete. Hard to do sometimes.

One time I had somebody bumping my butt with their cart. Often enough that it wasn't an accident. I just ignored it since I avoid confrontation, but I wish I'd chewed them out.

[Red Mountain]

7. Say way with tailgating

We're the only two cars on the road.....and I can't see your headlights.

Sigh.........slowing down..............................

[canetoad]

13. Yep

Was about to draw the same parallel. I've come to believe that tailgaters are psychopaths. No other explanation for it.

[dchill]

23. Impatient bullies endangering lives. So yeah - psychopaths.

[Figarosmom]

29. Unmarked Cop cars tailgate when they have

Quotas to fill. If you speed up they get you. I always take my foot off the gas. Especially when they can just go around me..

[Clouds Passing]

30. I pull over and let them pass, no passive aggressive slow down for me.

[Probatim]

38. Put your passenger tires on the white line and make them pass on right hand bends - that's the height of P/A behavior.

[multigraincracker]

41. I never pay any attention to the car behind me.

I’m old and drive at or below the speed limit. I figure anyone that is in a hurry should have left earlier.

[Lunabell]

46. That's not being passive aggressive.

It's called being safe when you are allowing them to pass.

[Clouds Passing]

57. If I can pull over safely, I always allow tailgaters to pass. Eases the tension on me and them.

Who knows where they’re going in such a hurry maybe their mom is in the hospital or they’re late for their daughter’s dance recital or they’re late for work. Sometimes people leave late, cats throw up on the bed or you break a glass. Crap happens.

I mean that slowing down in front of a tailgaiter is passive-agressive. That’s not going to make them stop tailgating, that’s just going to make them angrier. Just let them pass. What’s the big deal?

[Lunabell]

8. And tailgating me when I'm doing the speed limit

just slows me down.

[canetoad]

15. That's no reason

To drive at an unsafe speed to placate a psycho.

[canetoad]

18. MY foolish reply....

Enjoy your stay.

[GP6971]

20. How are you enjoying DU?

[GP6971]

24. Well Hi! Love you too!!

[niyad]

26. Which one of our little friends is this, do you guess?

[GP6971]

32. Not sure, but they were nasty.

[niyad]

50. They were indeed. Good riddance!

[GP6971]

51. If I had a Love Me Wall, I would

put their screed in a gold frame and display it as the ultimate compliment.

[niyad]

52. It was truly a most remarkable screed.

[niyad]

25. What flavour piizza do you like?

[Kali]

27. LOL

NEXT....

[Hekate]

21. Excuse me? I have strategies for tailgaters, and one is tapping my brake so the red lights flash...

After some elderly bozo kept pushing me to go faster and faster, I took my first opportunity to move to the next lane so he could repeat his performance with the person who had been in front of me. I also flipped him the bird, something I had never done before or since.

I also have some awareness of the next exit ramp and a few other things. No need for you to be insulting.

[canetoad]

37. Something dawned on me a few years ago

When I lived in the city and took the freeway regularly. If the car in front of you is closely tailgating the car in front of them, it's wise to leave even more space between cars. The idiot who's tailgating is likely to slam brakes on violently and who needs that on a freeway.

[multigraincracker]

42. You always get the ticket if you rear end another car.

Failure to stop in assured distance.

[Lunabell]

45. Not in Florida.

When you can prove it's brake checking. You get a ticket for tailgating, but the accident is actually caused by the front person. In Florida. I don't know about elsewhere.

[Lunabell]

44. That's called brake checking.

And illegal in Florida. I used to do that, but not anymore. Illegal and dangerous. I just take my foot off the gas, slow down and let them pass if able and I can move over. I'm not getting shot by some crazy, angry idiot.

[canetoad]

49. No, that's not what I mean

If the guy in front of you is tailgating and for whatever reason the car that he's tailgating needs to slow down or brake, this guy will stamp on the brakes out of utter urgency, probably starting a chain-reaction pile up.

IMO, most freeway pileups would involve fewer cars if there was a little more distance between them.

[Lunabell]

54. Oh. Sorry.

Yep, I misunderstood.

Yeah about the freeway, too. I always try to leave the required space. I'm not young anymore, and the reflexes leave you.

And passing on the right when on a three lane and the left is clear. Grr. That's so dangerous and folks do it all the time. I try to stay in the right lane, but some asswipes don't even give you a chance even when you clearly have your blinker on. That's why I try and keep a 360° visual on everything.

I've never had an accident in my 63 years that was my fault. Except once when I was driving a hoopty and the brakes went out. That sucked.

[canetoad]

55. Partly my fault

I wasn't clear the first time. I used to get so frustrated, being held up on the freeway because some idiot had rear-ended another. Totally uneccessary.

Moved to a country town fourteen years ago. Haven't been to the city for - maybe five years. Don't miss it. 😎

[COL Mustard]

40. That elderly bozo

Could have been me!!!

[Hekate]

48. This was like 35 years ago and I had my then-small kids in the car. Now I'm the one with silver hair...

I don’t think that was you, unless you are by now over 100

[LogDog75]

14. Here's what happened to me when I was stationed in England in the mid-80s

I owned a Volvo 264GL (European spec car) sedan and was driving on on motorway and a Mini Cooper began tailgating me. Even though we were in the slow lane he refused to pass me. After about two miles of slowing down and of his tailgating I decided to floor the car. We were the only two cars on the motorway at that time and as I sped away from him I could see his car get smaller and smaller. I have no doubt he felt small for trying to intimidate me with his tailgating.

[LeftInTX]

28. Oh yeah. I've got a yield sign near my house.

It really shouldn't be there and the yield is the only way to make a right turn at the light. It also has poor visibility because it angles away from the incoming traffic and the speed limit is 45 mph. Unless the light is red, I stop and look.

I've had numerous drivers drive around me. (All in trucks of course)
Then I noticed one driver had been rear ended at the site.

[Skittles]

17. GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME

try that - it works I tell you

[paleotn]

34. Yep. It works.

[Hope22]

31. Just had a friend in the hospital with Covid.

Six foot rule works for me!

[cbabe]

39. Cops warn about 'bump jacking' car theft

https://mynorthwest.com/3988933/a-very-serious-situation-wsp-warns-of-bump-jackings/

‘A very serious situation:’ WSP warns of ‘bump-jackings’
Sep 18, 2024, 4:24 PM

BY JAMES LYNCH
KIRO Newsradio reporter
The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is warning drivers to beware of a recent rash of carjackings along Interstate 5 (I-5). WSP is calling these crimes “bump-jackings” because armed assailants are bumping cars from behind and when the driver pulls over, young men wearing masks, jump out and carjack them at gunpoint.

The first bump-jacking happened just after midnight Monday then two more about the same time Tuesday morning.

“Three different situations, armed individuals have gotten out of the suspect car,” WSP spokesperson Chris Loftis told KIRO Newsradio. “Anywhere from three to six young people described as teenagers. They’re wearing ski masks. They rob the person, and, in some cases, they punched, and so there have been some physical assaults and then they take the car.”

… more …

(Tailgating could be more serious than thought.)

[paleotn]

43. I hear ya. Incredibly rude.

My wife says I possess what she calls "the look.:" She says it's sometimes involuntary. Had a woman huffing and muttering obscenities behind us in a check out once because we were apparently taking too long. Supposedly I gave her the look and she quickly changed lanes. I didn't think it was that bad, but my wife laughed and said, sweetie, she probably thought you were going to carve out her liver and eat it in front of her kids. Damn. Sorry. In hurry and politely ask to go in front? Absolutely. Go right ahead. But intentional rudeness? I just can't suffer that I guess.

[wcmagumba]

53. Liver with some nice fava beans is always a good choice, I hear....

[Meowmee]

47. I hate that

Someone at Aldis I think kept pushing their shopping cart into me last week. I suggest turning your shopping cart around so they can't get near you.

[mucholderthandirt]

56. I have to pull my mother back all the time. It's not rudeness in her case, she just doesn't pay attention.

Plus, she can't see that well (that really, really early morning taking her to get cataract surgery was pointless), and is so vain she won't wear her glasses. Says the doctor told her she only needed them for reading. I just laugh and tell her she's full of shit and she needs better doctors.

Anyway, I've been known to push people's shopping carts halfway down the aisle if they block it. They get mad and I just shrug and move on. Don't engage, they like that.

[MineralMan]

58. I have a cold face I present to them.

Expressionless, with unblinking wide open eyes, tight straight lips. I catch their eyes and just peer at them. Cold. They back right off, whoever they are. Never had it fail.