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spicy-unagi@reddit

For future reference...

This is the YouTube link:

 https://youtu.be/f6VBE1oboK8

...while this part of the URL is tracking information that can be used to link back to your Google account:

 ?si=Wr4Gu5adgLXfa7tT

It is always best to remove the tracking information before sharing YouTube links anywhere.

turtleship_2006@reddit

I mean you can still buy wired headphones with lightning cables
They're not quite as readily available as traditional ones but a quick search of Amazon or a visit to Currys/your tech retailer of choice will provide you with apple's official ones and cheaper 3rd party ones

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audigex@reddit

More usefully you can get them with USB-C cables, lightning is being phased out

But there are some downsides - you can't charge with them plugged in unless you have an adapter (which nobody has) and more importantly people don't just have 20 pairs shoved in a drawer somewhere in their house

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mrggy@reddit

Its 100% this. I used to always forget my headphones in uni. It was really easy to pop into a store and buy a new pair for super cheap. They were shit, but it was fine because they were just an emergency backup. Not only are blutooth headphones more expensive, but they don't sell them on every corner like they used to with the wired ones. It doesn't excuse being a dick and watching videos full volume, but the transition from wired to Blutooth has not been totally seamless

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FigNinja@reddit

I suppose that may have started it, but USB C earbuds are cheap. I have a few free sets that came with my phones. You can get a two-pack for $7 on Amazon. The jacks started disappearing 8 years ago. You would think people would have adjusted. Maybe it’s the sort of thing, that once people started it, it became normalized.

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YourLizardOverlord@reddit

The jacks started disappearing 8 years ago. You would think people would have adjusted.

I still haven't. But I'm an old git and something that isn't physically connected to my phone just seems ... over engineered and wrong somehow.

USB-C headphones. The only time you can't use those is while your phone is charging.

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Nearly learn the harmonica. Carry one with you always. Sit next to them and practice.

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dmmeyourfloof@reddit

Amateur.

When I worked in an office it was a regular moment of hilarity when someone played music without realising their headphones weren't connected.

I sat at a desk next to a woman who was very no-nonsense, raised by farmers and liked hunting in her spare time. When it happened to her, she was exposed for privately loving to listen to the original Disney beauty and the beast soundtrack. Which I reminded her of for the remaining years we worked together.

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MickRolley@reddit

Unclean

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Logical_Rutabaga3707@reddit

I just stared at his phone with him. He was next to me so I lent in a bit and then he stopped. Wasn’t even a very good video.

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I don't like it when people say i should be embarrassed about this. I don't know if it's just my phone or my ears, but I can't understand what people are saying on the little speaker anymore so I have to use loudspeaker- and if I'm in town I need to hold it up to my ear to hear. I feel like a bit of a price but if there's background noise it's the only way I can hear when I'm on the move.

Callme-risley@reddit

I remember being 16, waiting to board my first solo flight and the guy behind me was blasting his music from his headphones, with the headphones around his neck.

I was super shy but sick of hearing his noise, so I turned around and said “Everyone can hear that.”

He just said “Oh…sorry?” but didn’t do anything about it and I didn’t have the guts to say anything more. He was an adult after all.

I was staying within a hotel recently that had free WiFi in the reception & nearby areas only. There were a dozen people at a time watching various stuff on their phones with volume up and no headphones.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

Could have been worse though.

My wife had to give birth to our twins by emergency caesarean section, in the middle of Covid, wearing a mask, after pretty much only two trimesters.

They whisked the babies away into NICU because they were so premature, and moved her into a private room until her covid test came back negative, then into a no-masks ward where everyone had had a negative test, where she got to lay there recovering from major abdominal surgery and watching all the other mums wandering around talking and cooing over their own and each others' babies.

She lay there waiting to get well enough to be taken to NICU to finally see her new babies, when she became aware of a weird conversation between a nurse and another patient in the curtained-off bay next to hers.

"Ok, so you've had your covid test and it came back positive, but you say you had covid a couple of months ago, so it's probably just some left-over proteins in your blood, and we'll consider you negative..."

She was a nurse herself so she knew this was sketchy as fuck, and managed to flag a nurse and tell them about it as soon as one came past her bed.

Long story short the nurse she overheard in the other bay really fucked up, let a suspected covid carrier into a ward full of post-partum mums and newborn babies, and then left her there to wander around huffing on them all for half an hour before my wife raised the alarm.

The hospital freaked out, yanked the suspected carrier off the ward, put everyone else (including my wife) into individual confinement rooms until they'd passed the maximum realistic incubation period and got another negative test result, and then finally released them with their babies.

As a suspected carrier my wife wasn't allowed anywhere near the NICU at any point, even when she was well enough to move around.

So that's the story of how my wife gave birth to premature twins by emergency cesarean, and wasn't allowed to meet them for ten days.

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dragongirl_3@reddit

This is actually horrific. I had a prem baby also by emergency section and your experience just gave me the shivers. Hope you are all okay now.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

Yeah - happily it was years ago now, but that wasn't even all of it. The doctor delivering the twins also left an entire placenta inside my wife, and we only discovered it when she got an infection, started haemorrhaging and basically delivered a lump of tissue the size of a chicken breast herself at home a couple of weeks later... despite us being back in touch with the hospital several times about her symptoms, and the doctor concerned (who - in defiance of all reasonable processes - apparently handled his own complaints) gaslighting her that it wasn't possible he could have made a mistake.

It's a really good job we're fervent supporters of the NHS, or they would have been on the wrong end of a massive lawsuit with the number of times they fucked up.

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RepresentativeNo3680@reddit

Unfortunately u can't actually sue the NHS..

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Soft-Put7860@reddit

Erm, what? You definitely can and people do quite often

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Some of the measures taken during lockdown and the wider pandemic were utterly inhumane.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

To be fair once they'd identified a possible Covid exposure there was nothing they could really do but separately quarantine all the mums with their babies.

Given ours were in NICU and incredibly vulnerable and hadn't been exposed it also wouldn't have been safe for her to have contact with them before we knew it was safe, so it sucked fucking hard but there was nothing else we could really do.

I spent ten days shuttling between the twins in NICU, my wife (showing her pictures and videos of the babies) and home where I was looking after our four year-old (who also wasn't allowed into the maternity unit because young kids were banned for infection control concerns).

It was really shit and I broke down crying once or twice (the house also chose that same period to shit the bed as the central heating boiler and two appliances chose that same week to break down), but we got through it in the end.

Aside from that one fucking moron nurse and patient it really was all just unfortunate but necessary consequences from that point on.

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Squid_In_Exile@reddit

Yeah, they should've just let that idiot kill a bunch of babies.

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the_esjay@reddit

I think that a lot of things that wouldn’t happen otherwise were allowed to slide during Covid. Shit staff are (marginally) better than none, I suppose. But the student nurses who came in and often worked full time were amazing. Absolute stars.

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Gravitasnotincluded@reddit

And the nurse sacked? Surely?

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That’s awful!

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Behavior like this is why they put time of when partners allowed

I get she maybe had childcare issues, but give him headphones for goodness sake.

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WestcoastBestcoast84@reddit

Then there’s the people that talk on speaker phone all the time… no matter where they are.

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PippyHooligan@reddit

My wife and I recently went for a nice weekend at a spa hotel we'd previously gone to for as part of our honeymoon, ten years previous.

Sure enough: People watching reels at full volume by the pool. People watching reels at full volume in the lounge/bar and worst of all a woman watching the football on her phone at full volume in the restaurant suring her evening meal. It was awful. Things certainly had changed since last time we were there.

I remember reading somewhere "you can tell the health of a society by how they treat public toilets, as how they treat public conveniences shows how they view society as a whole".

The golden rule of do onto others seems to have reached treat it like you stole it, then wonder why costs go up.

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callisstaa@reddit

Jokes on them we don’t have public toilets.

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Scasne@reddit

We don't have em "Anymore".

The whole thing shows how the public that treated them view society and how those in government who got rid of em views the general populace.

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Hobbit_Hardcase@reddit

It's another permutation of the Shopping Cart Theory.

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Important_Lychee6925@reddit

Nearly had a fight on national express. This guy was sat in front of me at the front of the coach. Playing shite music at 8am on full blast. The driver kept turning round to tell him to turn it off but he didn't hear, people next to me were tutting. I got up, tapped him on the shoulder to turn it down as he didn't hear me when I said "excuse me".

He then starts swearing at me, saying I'm rude for touching him. That he wants to meet me outside after we stop presumably to beat me up???(he's massive, I'm a average sized female). I just told him that he's distracting the driver and idgaf.

He did shut up as the other passengers started on him lol 😆 was actually the highlight to my day telling him to shut it

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WealthMain2987@reddit

What a dickhead

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Kralgore@reddit

The worst part is the "tinny" sound from a distance is just diabolical...

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Present-Technology36@reddit

A lot of people do this nowadays because most new phones do not come with a 3.5mm jack which means you cant just plug in some cheap earphones. I believe companies have done this to force you into buyig expensive wireless earphones but they use some excuse about battery life to cover for themselves.

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People who walk around on loudspeaker in public with the phone out in front of them. Phones were created so that you can ur the speaker to your ear and we don’t have to overhear the whole thing

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Logicdon@reddit

There seemed to be a in recent years where people would answer their phone on loud speaker then hold it at a right angle to their mouth! What the fuck was that? Don't see it much these days, seems the weird fad has died off.

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DancingCatLadyXO@reddit

They're just inconsiderate to others. Those people don't have any awareness at all

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New_Libran@reddit

Also people who answer their phone on loud speaker,

JessicaSmithStrange@reddit

I'm guilty of the speaker thing, because the normal audio on my calls is crap, and I have a sensory problem with my hearing.

What makes the difference though, and made me finally stop doing it, is that a family member gave me their headphones, which have better sound quality, so I run all of my calls through those now because I can actually hear.

It's more comfortable for me because I'm not straining to pick up every other word, and I don't overcompensate with the phone speakers any more, so I don't piss off everybody around me.

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55percent_Unicorn@reddit

I mostly agree, but with a minor caveat. I work with deaf people who have cochlear implants. For some people, having the phone on speaker but held up to their ear is the only way they can actually hear it.

AliensFuckedMyCat@reddit

Neither of those things are any louder than talking to your friend in public, are you inconsiderate and self centred for that too?

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FadingMandarin@reddit

Well. Unduly loud talking in trains is indeed an irritant.

But listening to music or watching a film in public without headphones is noisy, is irritating, and is something only a really anti-social idiot would contemplate.

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AliensFuckedMyCat@reddit

How dare people make noise in public.

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FadingMandarin@reddit

Good fucking grief, you actually think it is acceptable to listen to music on a train or bus without headphones.

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AliensFuckedMyCat@reddit

I just think it's fucking stupid thing to complain about when it's literally no louder than anything else in public making noise.

Conversations happen everywhere that’s just life. You can’t stop that. But subjecting people to listen to your loud and irritating TikTok’s isn’t necessary.

Most of people’s issues aren’t with playing your stuff out loud, it’s with playing them in confined spaces or public transport within earshot of multiple people - it’s inconsiderate.

And to be honest, if you were on public transport with your friends and having a shouting match volume conversation you’d probably have a few people judging you as well.

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AliensFuckedMyCat@reddit

Conversations happen everywhere that’s just life. You can’t stop that. But subjecting people to listen to your loud and irritating TikTok’s isn’t necessary.

Maybe I find your conversations annoying, why don't you whisper?

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-Incubation-@reddit

My bad if I don't want to hear "OH NO, OH NO NO NO" on loop at full volume

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cybertonto72@reddit

We as humans can switch off from actively listening to other people talking, but if it is via a speaker we are not as capable of this.

This is where it becomes an irritation to most people.

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I also often unintentionally to listen in to full conversations from people who are making a call in their car through the car's speakers, they think that it's an enclosed private space but the sound really travels through.

I used to work in an office that was on a busy light controlled junction and in the summer with the windows open we would often get interrupted by loud bassy muffled conversations.

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iftheskycouldspeak@reddit

To be fair I sometimes hold phone against my ear on loud speaker during calls because I have hearing problems and sometimes I don’t have my earphones on me. I only do this if there’s a lot of background noise though, not in a quiet area or where people can’t get away from me!

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fbruk@reddit

Someone in my work does this in the kitchen. I'm sitting trying to read and eat my lunch and he's scrolling through reels. It's so fucking obnoxious.

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wyzo94@reddit

My colleague does this with watching Facebook reels, it's fucking infuriating.

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ChooChooBananaTrain@reddit

I 1000% agree on both points, HOWEVER:

My normal speaker on my phone broke when my daughter salivated in it excessively though, so I can only hear phone calls with AirPods or on loud speaker. On the extremely rare occassion I leave my house without AirPods I then have to be that guy with a loud speaker. I die inside every time I have to do it.

Waiting for my dad to get an upgrade so I can have his old iPhone.

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nerd-a-lert@reddit

This drives me fucking crazy, especially because I have to go to the hospital regularly and sit and have an infusion and frequently people also having infusions will sit there listening to videos and music and playing video games out loud such that we are all subjected to the same crap

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Substantial-Bug-4998@reddit

Not only should this be illegal, it should carry an immediate death sentence. Issued Judge Dredd style.

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colemorris1982@reddit

I was in Lidl in the UK one evening afew weeks ago, and a woman who was 9 shopping was having a conversation over speaker for at least twenty minutes. It was full volume, and you could hear it in the entire store... and it was the most POINTLESS conversation you can imagine. Like, one of those conversations where you don't actually have anything worth saying but you stay on the phone anyway. I eventually got fed up enough that I turned to the woman and said "Excuse me, could you take your phone off speaker please? " in a pleasant tone. She looked surprised to be called out, but took the phone off speaker and carried on... sometimes you just have to give people a nudge and they'll do the right thing.

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prof_hobart@reddit

And on a similar theme, people who insist on playing their music really loud in their gardens or in the house with the windows open.

My neighbour often works at the bottom of his garden, and will stick a radio on in his house blaring out terrible music rather than either taking the radio with him or putting headphones on.

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TooLittleGravitas@reddit

Watching videos without headphones may not be illegal, but it certainly SHOULD be.

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Appropriate-Divide64@reddit

I was recovering in hospital after an operation and some dick literally listened to/ watched Tiktok in the ward all night on the speaker. The nurses did fuck all, in the end he turned it right down (but not off) after I shouted at him.

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denspark62@reddit

same thing for me last year

After an op was back in the normal ward and the guy in the bed next to me had tiktok ( i think) on his phone with the sound on speaker. Seemed to be on repeat as the same music kept repeating in order. To be fair to him he switched it off after i asked him to put headphones on and apologised the next day.

the day before i'd been in the HDU after the surgery for a night and one of the other patients who'd had an argument with a nurse decided he had to tell his wife about it via his phone on speaker (so the nurses could hear) after midnight , on a ward with people who had had big operations that day.... The next day when he started vomiting copiously after ignoring the nurses about fluid intake i found it quite amusing....

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the_esjay@reddit

Actually, what really winds me up when staying in hospital are night staff who don’t even attempt to be quiet. Why the fuck are you letting doors slam and calling to colleagues down the corridors when sick people are already struggling to sleep well? I don’t expect people to creep around and whisper, but you can try and let the bin close quietly and not switch the main ward light on for godsakes. Lack of sleep can really fuck you up, much more quickly than you might imagine.

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denspark62@reddit

yeah the last few years i've had i think 5 stretches in hospital and the noise at night is one of the worst things about it, though i tend to be a deep sleeper so once ive dropped off im usually good but it can take a while to get to sleep.

Someone told me that the way they used their phones on ‘The Apprentice’ (basically, on speaker so the cameras could hear both sides of the conversation) started this trend.

I will probably be stabbed to death on the number 73 bus because I am incapable of not asking people to use their headphones.

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chrisrazor@reddit

I can't speak for everyone, but what I was younger I really didn't get that other people are actually people. That's what I think is going on here. They've probably been told that it's rude to do this, and almost certainly experienced people (or NPCs as they probably see them) getting angry about it, but they want to do it and they're the only one who matters.

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Galromir@reddit

yeah this. You don't use speakerphone when you're in public places, and you don't have audio playing unless you have headphones.

but to add to this:

as someone who works in customer service - don't be on the phone when I'm serving you and take off your headphones when I'm speaking to you.

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tazbaron1981@reddit

I answer 999 calls. The amount of times I have to ask people to take me off of speaker phone so I can hear what they are saying is unbelievable.

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jodorthedwarf@reddit

My nan is very deaf and doesn't like her hearing aids. Speakerphone is quite literally the only way she can hear people, over the phone.

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Vinegarinmyeye@reddit

Also people who answer their phone on loud speaker, but then put the speaker against their ear. Like wtf are you doing, that's not how to answer a phone.

I read what I thought was a kinda plausible explanation for this (though not like it's been researched just something that I thought made some sense as to why it's become a normalised thing).

Often in reality TV or YouTube or whatever you'll see folks doing this so that the viewer can hear both sides of the conversation.

(I'm not excusing it at all, or saying that's a valid reason - I also think it's dickish behaviour, but as an explanation as to why people do it I thought that seemed plausible).

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hippodribble@reddit

Wired stereo speakers on a laptop. In Starbucks. Up loud.

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Infinite_Edge1442@reddit

That's like next level of douche.

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robot20307@reddit

Nathan Barley levels.

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PetersMapProject@reddit

Also people who answer their phone on loud speaker, but then put the speaker against their ear. Like wtf are you doing, that's not how to answer a phone.

I know someone who does this.

He also has severe hearing loss, so that's the only way he can answer a phone - and even then he only catches every other word.

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Least-Entrepreneur23@reddit

I'm not sure what's worse:

1.) People who do this without realising it bothers other people.

Or

2.) People who do it deliberately and just don't care.

I work on board trains, and the amount of people I have to ask to turn their phones down/off is staggering

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Randy_The_Guppy@reddit

I was walking back in to work after having lunch the other day and some male teens were listening to music through a speaker as they were walking along. Must have been free spotify as it cut to add for Veet and they all continued and did not bat an eye lid. Times have moved on, if that had happened when I was their age you would have had the piss taken out of you for not having spotify premium (not that it existed) and would have instantly been given the nickname Veety or baldy legs.

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Some-Air1274@reddit

The worst is people driving down the road having a phone conversation so loud that it can be heard from outer space.

Infinite_Edge1442@reddit

That'd be a good laugh.

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Gadgie2023@reddit

This grips my shit.

We mainly use ours for commuting and have no need to charge away from home. There is a row of charging points at my local supermarket / city car park (not fast charging) which are often mostly empty and the car park does get full. The case I am talking about is a huge shopping centre in the middle of nowhere (York Designer Centre) with about 8 chargers and 3000 parking spots. There really is no need to use them.

At my place of work we decided against this, because it gives people a sense of right to park in the premium space by the door: "I'm paying for it, so it's OK". You'd have to whack the penalty up a long way to dissuade people, like tesla do.

Instead, you have to be registered to use the charger (cannot start it without your own pass). When someone overstays they are publicly shamed (within the workplace). Mostly it works. You have to have thick skin to ignore that. Someone tries, with tired old excuses about forgetting or what not. No one else "forgets", Bob.

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kelly-golightly@reddit

Or the classic phantom charging! Get the leads out and plug it in but not activate the charge. It pisses me off as there could be someone desperate to charge and can’t cause you’re too lazy to park elsewhere.

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dayofthe_misanthrope@reddit

Ooo this one reminds me: I was at Tesco the other day and an electric DPD van pulled up to the charger, plugged in, and then the driver hopped into his own car parked in the adjacent row and fucked off home. Literally no harm done, but it just felt like outrageous behaviour.

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ExplanationMotor2656@reddit

Cheeky

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txe4@reddit

I started to park in front of them and start getting my cable out to plug in.

Voodoopulse@reddit

Parking around schools is like a mine field of entitled behaviour, parents who just don't give a shit about the safety of kids because it saves them a 2 minute walk

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aloonatronrex@reddit

Often the parents are wearing gym gear because they love to exercise, just not when it’s within a mile of a school, then they have to park as close as possible.

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Happiest_Mango24@reddit

Tell me about it, parking is horrendous around my area because we live right next to the school.

To make this especially stupid, there's a big Tesco by the other gate with a huge car park where they could park much more easily. You have to cross a small road but there's a waiting area (I don't know what it's called) in the middle and a lollypop lady.

Why would you park in a small car park (that covers 3 streets and is therefore crowded with the cars of those who live there) and not the giant one? You're only saving a minute at most

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CoachOld856@reddit

It's also because the schools (primary in particular) enforce stupid, no tolerance rules where children must be picked up/ dropped off. Even if they live opposite the school.

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Tao626@reddit

I fail to believe that schools are enforcing people to drop their kids off in a car, especially if they literally live opposite the school. If not for that being fucking stupid, then because that excludes all children who's parents don't drive.

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physicLaughs@reddit

When do you think people need to get to work? How close do you think everybody lives to a school?

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Maybe they do but you don't have to drive 🤦

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Acceptable-Art-9649@reddit

If a child has to be in school after 8:30 and an adult has to be in work by 8:55, walking 15 mins home to go get the car then driving 30 mins to work would make them late, versus driving to school and then to work. Whereas if the child and adult both left home at 8:20 and the child could walk on their own as I and my peers did only 20 years ago, everyone is on time.

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terryjuicelawson@reddit

I have never seen them told they have to be picked up by car. Just handed over to a known person.

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Fudge_is_1337@reddit

This is the first I've ever heard of a policy of this kind, where is this happening?

My kids primary school gets regular visits from parking wardens. I secretly want to cheer when I see them.

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My family drive to the shop that's a 5 minute walk away. I don't get it.

Absolutely. Two of my neighbours work at my daughter’s school and drive to work every day. It’s a 6 minute walk at 6 year olds pace, about 10 minutes for the 3 year old. I’ve no idea why they drive, they often drive past us and due to the footpaths in the estate we sometimes beat them to it.

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Jonnyporridge@reddit

It’s a 6 minute walk at 6 year olds pace, about 10 minutes for the 3 year old

So about 3 mins really 😂 it's nuts isn't it, the cost per mile once you factor in price of the vehicle, fuel, tax, insurance etc must be astronomical, price of walking is nothing, in fact you probably profit due to health benefits.

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Beneficial-Metal-666@reddit

I refuse to believe people drive a 500 metre distance.

I just can't bring myself to believe that.

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No-Cost-1045@reddit

I've known a car literally park across a junction and left in there about 10 mins as they got their kid so noone could get in or out the junction just to stop them from having to walk an extra 50 yards from a more sensible spot.

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bonkerz1888@reddit

Aye funnily enough this is the third day this has come up in different conversations on here. Folks like next to a school, private residential carpark with designated spaces.. all used up by parents come 3pm, cars parked on pavements and blocking the road, pandemonium.

Then when you tell them to shift out the designated spot they spit the dummy out. I've purposely blocked a car in on one occasion when the parent fucked off to the school gates. Left the house half an hour later to a fire breathing dragon still stuck in her car with her kids.

The worst bit of it all.. it's a village and 90% of the parents all live within a few hundred yards of the school which has no policy prohibiting walking to school. They're all a bunch of lazy bastards.. can only ponder the damage they're doing to their kids, instilling that attitude in them.

One that I’ve never seen mentioned but drives me up the wall is people walking infront of you that are walking to fast to overtake comfortably but also too slow to create any distance between you.

Always end up in a weird limbo where I’m too close to them and can’t seem to get away without either breaking into a run or stopping altogether!

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BloxedYT@reddit

I’m the opposite kinda fused with this. I’m quiet but a fast-walker so people won’t realise I’m behind them and I’m too awkward to say anything or walk around cuz that’d be dickish and I’d be going into the road. Eventually they went in a little bit so walked around them but still felt bad. Moral of the story, don’t be afraid to talk to others.

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plantmic@reddit

I did this on my bike one, on a shared path.

Basically didn't know what to say, as I didn't want to just yell for them to move.

But then I ended up just crawling along right behind them so when I finally said my meek excuse mes I looked really weird.

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in-thesuburbs-i@reddit

Why not use the bell?

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plantmic@reddit

Didn't have one. My bike was a total piece of shit, just for getting me to work.

plantmic@reddit

I love giving the cheesy grin at people engrossed in their phone. They always look up in total embarrassment right at the last minute

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Rhythm_Killer@reddit

The antidote to pavement hogs which works absolutely every time for me is to stop walking. They then have to walk round you.

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BeatificBanana@reddit

I just keep on walking the same exact path I was on, as if they aren't there. Just look straight at them and keep walking. Then we play a game of get out of the way or get walked into. They always dodge out of my way at the last second and then give me a highly offended look as if I'm the one behaving selfishly!

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AlgaeFew8512@reddit

Whenever there’s someone walking towards us on the path, I always make sure to tell my kids to make space for them.

The amount of people who just let their kids walk into me rather than guide them out the way is unreal.

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JezraCF@reddit

I just stand still and make them walk around me

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Some-Air1274@reddit

So common in London!

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chris7824@reddit

Someone said “people who answer their phone on loud speaker, but then put the speaker against their ear. Like wtf are you doing, that’s not how to answer a phone” I replied ”damn, I do that coz I’m deaf, new anxiety unlocked, cheers! 😂” I was trying to be lighthearted and he keeps deleting the comment. That’s a little bit dickish. I dunno, maybe I’m the dick for reminding him disabled people exist, we’re annoying, I knoww.

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SWTransGirl@reddit

I have a school by my home, and do get parents do this. They don't park on my drive, but park across it.

I've even told someone recently, who is a repeat offender, that I do not appreciate them parking across my drive, nor do our neighbours.

Due to being self employed, I come and go fairly frequently, so access does happen 24/7, as my colleague and I work remotely, and occasionally need to meet.

The problem is, they all say/think it'll only be 5 minutes. But I live on a main road, so their 5 minutes means I'm unable to park anywhere else, other than my driveway.

Our neighbours on both sides, will frequently park their cars forward, or bring their bins out, blocking a bit of their drives, but I only have one car, and can't be bothered doing the bins.

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Popular-Reply-3051@reddit

Next time they do it zip tie your bumper grill to theirs. Then either go for a long walk or go back into your house for a nap or a long bath. I mean if you're not going anywhere any way...

We get it all the time too. After 20 years of yelling at people for parking in our private car park (4 houses - 5 spaces) or across our driveway (across from a popular pizza place, a youth club and behind our local theatre which has no parking (think that was sold in the 80s to build our houses and car park??) we don't seem to get many repeat offenders. Only people I give a pass are delivery folks as they're rarely there long and if they are delivering to one of us lot they are welcome to park in the car park.

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SWTransGirl@reddit

I’d prefer to ziptie a bin to their car than my car grill. But then I’d lose a bin 😂

For now, I’ll continue to confront those who do it, and raise it to the school, since they’ve said no parent should park there anyway.

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Vainybangstick@reddit

People leaving trolleys randomly in the car park. Especially when it’s busy. It’s just twattish

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Accurate_Prompt_8800@reddit

This is why I’m glad where I am has the £1 system, no one leaves them around when you’re going to lose your money as a result…

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Vainybangstick@reddit

We have them too but people get them unlocked somehow and still dump them.

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I've sat and watched somebody spend five minutes prying the pound coin from their trolley, then get in their car and drive away, rather than spend 15 seconds walking it back to the collection point.

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*gall :]

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Thank you. Gall.

Had this once happen to me when I nice young man walking by knocked on the womans car window and made her move so I could have a spot. If I'll ever see that man again, I'll buy him a beer

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

The hero of tesco car park has struck again

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RevolutionaryBar4193@reddit

Did you punch him?

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Nah. I was flabbergasted. Just kinda.. got out of his way and parked elsewhere.

3 hours later though, as I took my shower, imaginary me was battering seven bells of shit out of him though

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Repulsive_Bed9677@reddit

Your comment made me think of this, https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/s/sGRO88oPkT

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abw@reddit

Random happy trolley story:

There was an elderly lady parked near me at the supermarket a few weeks ago. She had just finished unloading her trolley into her car as I was walking past on the way to return my trolley. I offered to take her trolley back for her, seeing as I was going that way anyway.

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FloofBallofAnxiety@reddit

This is what came to my mind as well. The Posh Push.

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Kath_DayKnight@reddit

OK yes, I agree. But I've had somebody tell me off for this before when I left a trolley on the side of the footpath beside the mother's and babies carparks so I feel the need to say that sometimes if you're not leaving them in the way of vehicles or making it impossible to walk through, it can be very helpful for mums of young kids to have a stroller right there to load the small people into and walk into the shop. Very very helpful.

I once woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't remember if I unloaded the leg press.

Still gives me the sweats thinking about it.

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waxfutures@reddit

You know what's just as bad? When everyone puts their trolley away in the same shelter and the trolley train (I couldn't think of a better name for it) ends up sticking way out of the shelter and you have to swerve round it when driving past.

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Vainybangstick@reddit

Agreed. Like it’s sticking 8 feet out and obviously in the way.

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aaron2933@reddit

I remember reading somewhere that returning trolleys is the best way to tell who is a shitty person or not

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Bardsie@reddit

That never happens around my end of the country.

It's not that people are more considerate here, it's just no one in Yorkshire is ever leaving that pound coin behind.

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Humble-Parsnip-484@reddit

Lazy bones itis

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cari-strat@reddit

I have to pull out and turn right onto a busy road in the morning. Traffic in the lane nearest me is often at a crawl or standstill because of the traffic lights further up, but the number of drivers in it that see me waiting to cross their path, and can clearly see traffic at a halt a few yards ahead of them, but refuse to let me out, is utterly infuriating.

As someone stuck in this situation every day trying to leave my own road I’ll add to this - pedestrians crossing in front of your car rather than behind meaning you miss your golden chance. Honestly I don’t know whether they’re meant to do this or not tbh, but whenever I’m walking and see a car waiting somewhere trying to turn onto a main road I cross behind them.

As well as being annoying for a diligent driver who’s seen me, I also don’t want to risk getting run over by someone who’s hyper focused on looking for a gap and has forgotten the possibility of a person darting out in front of them.

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cari-strat@reddit

This too. I always cross behind whoever is at the front of the queue, too. It's just polite and as you say, likely safer.

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TequanSimba@reddit

Use horn & beep at them indiscriminately whilst you edge forwards. They will get embarrassed or upset & it will help them to understand not to do that again in the future!

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cari-strat@reddit

My son was in the front this morning and he decided to lean out of the window and give the driver a very loud hurrah and a slow clap as he sat stuck in front of us, awkwardly trying to pretend he hadn't noticed. 😂😂😂

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i_enjoy_silence@reddit

Very noticable in London and Birmingham. Nobody will let you out leaving you no choice but to force your way out.

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Lara-887767@reddit

I thank them before they know what they’re being thank for and pull out in these situations. Fuck em xx

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Every_Difference365@reddit

I hate this. I have to walk across a busy road to catch a bus to work. There’s an island in the middle of the road I use for crossing, and the amount of times people in cars crawl past without letting me cross to the middle, or from the middle to the other side, is infuriating. It would add 3 seconds on to their journey to stop but there’s been so many times I’ve watched my bus drive past because I can’t cross that damn road

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Fudge_is_1337@reddit

There's one on a semi-regular route for me at the moment with a giant yellow and black "DO NOT BLOCK JUNCTION" sign. Still see someone parked across the entrance every time I go past

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Competitive_Art_4480@reddit

Some people really shouldn't be allowed to drive. It's a lack of consideration for others. If it's non dangerous inconsideration that's something I suppose, often they will be dangerously inconsiderate. Some people just don't have the mindset that it's not a race or that they aren't the most Important person on the road.

Yeah, my parents live opposite a school. They have verges that they own outside of their drive. People would regularly block the driveway. People utter cunts whenever asked to move so my parents can leave their property in their car.

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TranslatorCritical11@reddit

Someone not opening the door for a person in a wheelchair.

I had a similar incident.

I was in the lift at my office, and a lady was in the lift with me.

As the doors opened at my floor, I noticed that the lady motioned to get off, so I stood back and indicated that she should leave before me.

She got out, turned around, and said "How patronising...just because I'm a woman, you think you need to let me our first,??"

Fortunately my brain quickly kicked into action, and I immediately responded with "Nothing to do with your gender - it's to do with being polite.".

Popular-Reply-3051@reddit

I would be bothered. Obviously not at the little one but the man would be asked to leave if no one recognised him and he would not have taken all the cupcakes. Your generosity letting the kid stay at the party is enough. He was just taking the piss.

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Miss_Type@reddit

Sitting in a car park with your engine idling. I regularly see one person in a car, presumably waiting for someone who's just popped in the shop, with their car engine idling. Maybe they're doing it to keep the air con/heat running, but it's fucking awful for so many reasons.

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Popular-Reply-3051@reddit

Can I add to that. People with their lights on in a car park or worse parking on the side of a dual carriageway way or something. When parked safely lights off, engine off unless you need it on.

It is a crime but its a civil offense as its trespassing, I found this out a while ago as some people basically put there car into what they though was valet parking but it was just some rando dudes making a few pounds, they parked their car on a driveway and didn't realise the house was occupied, the people complained but the police refused to tow it as no criminal offense had been made, then they said they'd break the window release the break and move the car themselves and the police said if they did that its criminal damage and they'd be arrested. The only course of action was to invoke a civil procedure to remove the car (which was blocking their driveway and garage (with their car inside). The situation was resolved when the people came back off holiday and the guys turned up to remove the car and left.

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Popular-Reply-3051@reddit

You can legally move it. You just can't damage it. So if you got 4 large blokes to pick it up and move it or a tow truck can move it then winner winner. After this get a gate or a moveable bollard or a large rock or an army of wheely bins.

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dukeofplymouth@reddit

waiting at the end of escalators. I mean, it should be obvious that the escalator will keep bringing more and more people up, so the logical thing would be to wait somewhere else. But no, they have to stop as soon as they step off to look at their phones.

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Popular-Reply-3051@reddit

Top or bottom of stairs, either side of a bridge, doorways...the list goes on. Yeah people are definitely dicks for obstructing everyone else.

I did have tissues by the by - he was welcome to one.

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Appropriate_Gur_2164@reddit

Add mouth breathers to this list, actually.

Oh I've got a list of these!

I see everyone else has more than covered the idiots playing music/films/social media vids at volume with no headphones. My answer to this is play my own terrible music at high volume with no headphones! Because two can play at that game! Or start singing along or watching the film/vids over their shoulder - particularly fond of doing that when they do have headphones but hate the integrity of their own eardrums so I can hear everything.

Related to this is parents allowing their children to watch videos/cartoons/games on a tablet in a restaurant full volume no headphones. Lovely. Just what I wanted to hear - Peppa Pig.

Lots of comments about the lazy entitled mums and dads dropping off at school. I'll raise dropping off kids anywhere nowadays. The lazy drop off parents are fun. Technically illegal to park on a dropped kerb even if you have a disabled badge. Only excuse is medical emergency or the bluelighters. So goodness knows why everyone does it across our driveway so their little angels don't have to walk across the road. Can't children over the age of 10 walk by themselves anymore?!? Maybe not at night but mum can still pick you up by parking legally down the road then walking to get her child FFS.

"Saving a space" when parking. Admittedly have only seen this 3 times but some plonker standing in a space "saving" it for their friend/reli/partner while they circumnavigate the (globe) car park. Depending on other spaces and whether I can be bothered to argue I may choose to drive slowly into the space until I touch the plonker. Obvs not doing this is the person saving the spot is a child as they are not to blame for the adults entitlement.

It was really clear, even from the glance I got before going upstairs, that he's sitting there with his finger poised over the "record" button to try and film someone who wants to stop him. Like he's purposefully being a complete and utter bellend with the goal of posting a video on TikTok.

Honestly though... I've some pity. His life must be so devoid of anything fulfilling to want to do something like that.

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OutsideWishbone7@reddit

Tough

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Relative-Dig-7321@reddit

Tough what?

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reddevil18@reddit

My mum is epileptic, the amount of times people have watched her collapse and smack her head, and instead of helping just muttered shes drunk/drugged and pulled their phones out is a joke.

she even wears a wrist band saying epilepsy, but no one comes to help her to even see it...

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BarryFairbrother@reddit

I fully sympathise, but I've also had two occasions in my life where a person has just collapsed with no warning, had some kind of seizure, an ambulance has been called, and then the person has just got up as if nothing happened, and insists on going about their day, and is angry at the people who have called an ambulance.

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folklovermore_@reddit

The one with this that always baffles me slightly is people whipping out their phones to take a photo/video the second there is a crowd at a tube station. Like what does it actually achieve?

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hhfugrr3@reddit (OP)

I always dread seeing myself in those video clips of fat people walking down the road that they play on the news at the start of a segment about obesity 😭

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YorkshireRiffer@reddit

Order a custom t-shirt with the front text reading:

'Fuck stock news footage'

Presto! They won't use you in their shots.

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OutsideWishbone7@reddit

Easy to edit out

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IrreverentRacoon@reddit

I fear The Tuba will find me some day 😔

Completely legal in the UK at least. If you are 'in public' you have 'no expectation to privacy'.

CCTV cameras are allowed to operate in public spaces because of this....

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sayleanenlarge@reddit

Legal shmegal cunty behaviour.

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Relative-Dig-7321@reddit

Yeah I know, OP said what isn’t illegal, not hurting anyone but is still a bit dickish.

I kind of meant like the auditors and YouTubers like Charlie Vitch or whatever his name is. Or the inconsiderate people that whip their phone out when someone is hurt or are having medical emergencies. As opposed to CCTV, which I’m aware a lot of people dislike.

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duskfinger67@reddit

I think the difference is whether you are filming in public, and happen to catch some people on video, or whether you are actively filming people who don’t want to be filmed.

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Flagship_Panda_FH81@reddit

Isn't that the point of this thread? Things that aren't illegal but might be inconsiderate or rude?

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20dogs@reddit

Reddit's going to find this one hard. A lot of /r/AmITheAsshole is people saying it's technically legal and therefore not a problem.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

A lot of /r/AmITheAsshole is people saying it's technically legal and therefore not a problem.

Relative-Dig-7321@reddit

Yeah cameras in a kids park should definitely be against the law.

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bbravery@reddit

Strange take imo, not that I'm taking pictures at a kid's park, but how is it any different to just looking at the park for example?

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Relative-Dig-7321@reddit

I think taking pictures/videos of other people’s children at a kids playground especially if there parents aren’t there is definitely odd behaviour at the very least.

OranjeBrian@reddit

Parking on someone’s drive should be illegal.

It’s no different than using a supermarket car park. It’s still private land.

Isn't it cheaper than that to park in the official parking?? I last went in 2004 so may be a tad out of touch

Also that's fucking outrageous from the person that rented out your driveway but you have to admire their chutzpah

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Acki90@reddit

Probably not. Parking for Download festival next year is 45 quid for the weekend.

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Kitchen_Owl_8518@reddit

I have no idea I've not been in a long time and used to get VIP tickets through my job so never parked.

Having seen the queues to get out of the official parking and the general chaos that side of town since I was a kid, I would pay a bit more not to sit in it 😂

It wasn't long after this I had ring cameras installed but I do wonder how many Saturdays away fans have parked on my drive and fucked off to football and I've been none the wiser.

I admire the brass but would admire it more if he did it to someone else and not my drive 😂

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theModge@reddit

As I understand it, you just need a sign that's sufficiently visible no one can argue they didn't see it.
Choosing to park there forms the contract, so they're bound to pay, because they can't argue they expected otherwise.

Freeman on the land type nutters try this with putting any random bollocks on a sign, but just doing something that you can reasonably expect to be allowed to do e.g. walking done a path to deliver letters doesn't form a contract.

Or something, massively not a lawyer, but owing the number of people who can afford lawyers getting parking fines this is something that gets discussed a lot

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stocksy@reddit

You need the correct signage and you need to be accredited by one of the parking enforcement trade associations if you wish to be able to request the registered keeper's details from the DVLA. In practice, the rules around how and when PCN NTKs are issued are quite specific and you're likely to fall foul of them as a layman. It's a better idea to purchase a kit from one of the enforcement companies that offer this service. You won't be able to keep the money generated by the PCN but it's more likely to actually stick.

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20127010603170562316@reddit

I think there are services where they'll provide you with signs, you just send them a photo of the offending vehicle. They handle the enforcement and send you a cut.

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Well.. you can Airbnb your spare room, right? Why not rent out your drive if it's not currently in use?

greggery@reddit

The bonkers thing is that letting their tyres down would be considered criminal damage, whereas then parking in your drive is a civil trespass issue.

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EndItAllSoonish@reddit

Just make trespass more of a criminal offence, so it covers everything on private land.

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Is it ok for someone to let themselves into your house and sit on your sofa too?

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Hazz3r@reddit

Strawman. There's no reason for someone to let themselves into my house and sit on my sofa. There's good reason for someone to put their car on an empty drive outside a busy school.

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Knowlesdinho@reddit

It was an extreme example of the same thing actually, i.e. trespassing.

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Hazz3r@reddit

It's really not. It's a false equivalence. Unless you're hoovering your driveway once a week, most people don't place the same level of attachment to their drive that they do to the interior of their home. For example, most people don't mind couriers and posties trespassing on their land when they deliver post, but expect the same people not to step inside the home unless invited.

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Knowlesdinho@reddit

Now that's a strawman argument!

Couriers and posties are providing a useful service which requires them entering a certain part of your land. It's accepted and welcomed.

Some moron using your drive to drop off and pick up kids is trespassing. If they block the drive they are at the very least selfish.

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Hazz3r@reddit

No it's not. I'm make a point about the difference between the interior of the home and the driveway, I'm not comparing the acts of trespassing.

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Knowlesdinho@reddit

If someone parks their car on your drive, they are trespassing on private land. There is no circumstance where it is acceptable to park on someone's drive without their express permission.

You're the one making strawman arguments, you're the one being downvoted because nobody agrees with you. I wager my spare parking space that you would not accept some random person pulling into your drive and just idling there for several minutes morning and night.

It's ok to be wrong you know.

Anyway, I'm done with this conversation. I'll leave you the last word as you'll want that, people like you always do.

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Hazz3r@reddit

Trust me, I am truly okay with being downvoted. That Edit was to encourage people to actually reply to me, so that someone might actually convince me I was wrong. I had 16 downvotes and not a single reply.

I haven't made a strawman argument. My points have illustrated that, while wrong to do so, the idea of making the act of idling on someones driveway for 5-10 minutes a criminal act is ludicrous. The vast vast majority of people would be none the wiser that it happened if they weren't there to see it.

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TheGreatBatsby@reddit

There's no reason for someone to let themselves into my house and sit on my sofa.

I need to sit down somewhere comfortable because my legs are tired and my hemorrhoids are acting up (leaking again). Open up.

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Hazz3r@reddit

Oh look, it's that idea that someone is going to damage your property which I mentioned in the initial comment.

And regardless, people are making a false equivalence between the inside of your home and your driveway. If you care as much about your drive as you do your home then you would have the whole thing locked up, if not a gate then a bollard.

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OranjeBrian@reddit

Yeah because creating a situation where you have to drive across a pavement “outside a busy school, on a busy road, with lots of traffic” is really helpful to the pedestrians isn’t it?

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Hazz3r@reddit

Road safety has nothing to do with the legality of parking on someones drive. You're clutching.

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Remarkable-Wash-7798@reddit

But I own MY driveway. There are many like it. But this one is mine.

I also own my couch which I don't use a lot. Your NOT welcome to pop your feet up. And before someone mentions that coming into my house is different than my driveway. My couch is on my driveway.

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mbrowne@reddit

Unfortunately that makes you into the one committing a crime. You are not allowed to block access to the highway.

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Remarkable-Wash-7798@reddit

AHH law, it's a funny old thing.

Interesting though, I seen a newspaper report about a piece of land next to a beach (privately owned). The owner was allowing the land to be used as parking for the beach, however it had been used as a site for a traveller group. The owner then placed massive concrete blocks to the entrance/exit of the land and said he will not move them if the group don't leave and take their rubbish with them.

tvcleaningtissues@reddit

People parking just enough over a dropped kerb to not get a fine or just enough on the path to obstruct someone. Makes it impossible for disabled people or people pushing wheelchairs to navigate safely.

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ComfortableWinter549@reddit

Massive? Please.

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random_character-@reddit

Stopping at the bottom of an escalator to answer your phone. Dumbass.

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ExpressAffect3262@reddit

People with no kids with them parking in the parent/child spots.

I see it discussed in our local FB often and I'm also personally against it as I have a 3 year old with me when I go shopping.

It always seems to be elderly people but the argument I see online is always "they struggle to walk".

I can't see the difference between parking in a parent/child spot and a normal car park spot behind them that's 20 steps away.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

I can't see the difference between parking in a parent/child spot and a normal car park spot behind them that's 20 steps away.

If they struggle to walk, being 20 steps closer is going to be easier for them.

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ExpressAffect3262@reddit

People always bring up that argument.

Ok sure, 20 steps, but then what? They're walking around a store for 1000 steps.

Is 1020 steps noticeably different to 1000 steps?

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Is 1020 steps noticeably different to 1000 steps

Do you think disabled spots should be positioned towards the back of a car park as well?

For someone with mobility issues, I'm sure they appreciate 20 less steps, especially when carrying things back to their car.

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ExpressAffect3262@reddit

I feel like you're arguing over something that's not been said lol

Both disabled and parent/child are typically at the front of the store.

So where are you getting them being at the back of the store from lol

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glasgowgeg@reddit

Both disabled and parent/child are typically at the front of the store.

You're arguing that 20 steps make no difference, so I'm asking you if they should be at the back of the car park.

You've misread my comment.

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aredditusername69@reddit

Yes. Parent & Child spots are there for safety, not to save a walk, which is the point that a lot people seem to miss.

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X0AN@reddit

It's not a safety feature, it's extra space to get a baby and toddler out.

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aredditusername69@reddit

It's both. Parent & Child spaces usually have direct access to a walkway so your kids aren't running into cars trying to park.

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ExpressAffect3262@reddit

Safety & wider spaces for getting your baby/toddler in & out.

Absolutely kills your arms trying to get a baby out of the chair seat when you can only open your door ever so slightly.

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Chazza_2222@reddit

Pet peeve of mine. I agree with you. I have nothing against smokers, but it's just common decency.

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summerpeachxox@reddit

Yep I saw a bloke smoking right in the doorway of the women’s health and maternity unit recently. Like come on use your common sense, people are bringing newborns out of there and I imagine pregnant women don’t want to walk through a cloud of smoke either! He did get told off on the loudspeaker which made me laugh

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Ruu2D2@reddit

It's so common . I had appointment every two weeks at hosptial because of being high risk .alway had to walk past smokes gathered

So people who higher risk often have to go in twice weeks etc . So even more .

Heaven forbid any of them having hot flush and wanting to stand outside

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greggery@reddit

Smoking in entry ways . I hate carrying my newborn out hospital past clond of smoke .

I believe there's going to be legislation coming in having smoking in front of hospital entrances, which will be nice.

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Yourepissed@reddit

When people stop in the middle aisle of the supermarket for 30 minute catchup with 10 other people.

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Or you can take the instructions of the service you're using and leave it in the auditorium.

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AmphibianNo8598@reddit

Are you seriously so dense as to believe that a company would have its employees best interests at heart? They have TEN MINUTES to clean up all the mess, there’s enough to do with just spillages etc, sometimes it’s only one person cleaning those busy theatres. It costs you nothing and takes virtually no time to just take your crap with you and put it in the bin outside, it’s literally on your way out. I won’t be discussing this with you further. You’re selfish, live with it or change, I don’t care, but there is no good reason to leave your rubbish behind in the cinema screen and that’s a fact.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

but there is no good reason to leave your rubbish behind in the cinema screen and that’s a fact.

Have you ever worked for a cinema? It was generally easier us for folk to leave the rubbish at their seats rather than take it with them, especially unfinished drinks.

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Hazz3r@reddit

It's selfish to do what you're told?

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Calo_Callas@reddit

Saw a film on Saturday and one of the pre-film messages was 'Please leave your rubbish by your seat'.

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glasgowgeg@reddit

I worked in Cineworld for several years, the bins aren't big enough for that if it's a busier showing.

Leave things like unfinished drinks at your seats. I would generally prefer if folk left stuff at their seats, it was easier to clean up than having to run out and empty the foyer bins whilst we were supposed to be cleaning the screens.

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MarshallMathers1973@reddit

There are people being paid to clean up and a lot of cinemas ask you to leave your rubbish there.

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AmphibianNo8598@reddit

Yes to clean up. Not to tidy up. People are paid to clean all sorts of places that doesn’t mean you’re not a prick for making it harder!

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glasgowgeg@reddit

There are things that are easier to leave at your seat, like unfinished drinks.

Don't put unfinished drinks in the bins, because they burst in compactors and it's horrible to clean up.

Leave unfinished drinks at seats, we would bring in an old mop bucket and empty them into that.

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TheJobSquad@reddit

At Vue cinemas they have signs saying to leave your rubbish at your seat. I can't do it. This is mental, but I ended up putting my near empty popcorn box in my bag to recycle at home. It just didn't feel right to leave it for someone else to clear away.

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AmphibianNo8598@reddit

I mean they have bins outside the theatres! I don’t get people defending it, sure the company might say so, I go all the time to various chains and haven’t seen that message in years, but there’s literally ten minutes between showings sometimes and especially if it’s a busy film… they have enough to clean with spillages etc

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Original_Bad_3416@reddit

People who still have the TV on when you visit

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chemo92@reddit

My colleague told me her sister in law will come to her place for a visit and just sit down and put the TV on.

There is a farm across the bridge from my house and street. Daily the horses are walked from the stable and daily the horses sh!t on the street. No one complaints but it stinks and is just unattractive to look at.

The local football club had a fireworks display to fundraise. The stable complained for a month before and a month after.

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NaturalHighPower@reddit

As a motorcyclist I hate this. Police horses round my area are the biggest culprit, always seems to be on a bend too. Dog owners get fined a grand for leaving mess, horse owners should be fined double.

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plantmic@reddit

And any complaint about farmers is immediately shouted down as you being a townie who doesn't understand the countryside.

We were recently in Budapest and went on an evening boat ride down the Danube; specifically chose a boat with no obnoxious lighting so it was nice and chill.

Sat next to some wannabe instagram model who was making her boyfriend take pictures of her with, I swear to christ, some sort of photography grade lighting rig that was blinding about 10 people in their immediate vicinity. To the point where we had to tell them to turn it off.

I get that people are chasing the social media clout game but man just the lack of self consciousness on display is stunning a lot of the time. Here's me constantly worried that my phone will go off and it's not on silent and annoy people nearby, and you've got social media brainrotters who treat everything like it's their own personal studio.

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banedlol@reddit

I somehow feel more embarrassed for the simp taking the pics.

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ClingerOn@reddit

Unless they’re actively getting in peoples ways, it’s not really dickish, it’s just a bit irritating.

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Blametom1@reddit

People who set some fireworks off around 6.30pm... and then a few more around 7.15... and then some more around 8ish... maybe a couple more around 8.45 perhaps finishing with one or two just before 10pm. These people having children themselves and who know full well that there are several other kids on the street who will have gone to bed already.

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littlenymphy@reddit

My city council never put on an official fireworks display anymore so I usually just watch other people's fireworks. My added complaint to yours is that I'll hear some go off, wander into the back garden to wait for them setting more off and then after 10-15 minutes no more appear so I go back inside.

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OrdinaryQuestions@reddit

Sat in a bus station waiting, the queue is huge. Then new people come over, go outside to "smoke" etc, and stay out there so they can be at the front when the bus comes.

And they all just gather in a mass crowd out there too, so the real queue ends up stuck and having to wait behind the chaos.

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MyBeardSaysHi@reddit

As a smoker and bus taker, I stand well out of the way of the bus stop after work and waiting for the bus but I will never let myself be the first on the bus. I keep a mental note of who was there first and offer them to get on first. Followed by any elderly or female persons waiting and will generally be the last on even if I was there first. Its just called manners and too many people (young AND old) do not have any these days.

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True_Application_137@reddit

Yes! That is a proper bug bear of mine. It’s the height of rudeness and honestly really annoying especially when they know they’re doing it and give you a cheeky grin like haha! 😤

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Lanky-Truck6409@reddit

Sounds like poorly planned architecture

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BarryFairbrother@reddit

Putting possessions on the seat next to you on a busy bus/train. Or sitting on the outside seat with an empty window seat (when there is no mobility issue or the like).

I know it's easy enough to ask the person to move them, but I can't fathom the thought process to do it in the first place. I simply can't bring myself to do it. I would feel embarrassed and mortified at the thought that the people around me think that I'm a jerk. The same reason why I never play phone audio/video on speaker mode in public - not because it's rude (which it is), but because of how I will be perceived. Even on an empty bus I keep my bag on my lap until I am sure that no one else is going to get on or my stop is next etc.

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knightsbridge-@reddit

It's the civil wrong of trespassing to park your car on someone's driveway without their permission. Still not technically a crime, but crime-adjacent.

Anyway, sitting on the outside seat of a bus with the inside seat empty because you don't want to sit next to anyone.

I get it. Nobody wants to sit next to a stranger on the bus. Given the choice, we'd all have a seat to ourselves.

But when I'm going home from work, and I'm exhausted, and I just want to sit down and I stare at the rows of selfish pricks who've claimed an entire row for themselves...

People driving up your arse, on the flip side people driving intentionally slow

SuccessfulPanda211@reddit

I saw this video on TikTok of this women taking the entire sushi platter at an all you can eat sushi place. Like the serving tray itself, filled with like 50 pieces of sushi that the entire restaurant is supposed to have access to. The crazy thing was so many people in the comments didn’t seem to understand why this was inconsiderate.

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Ems118@reddit

Ya see to me that’s a dck move because it’s not respecting someone else’s property.

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EfficiencyWeird2567@reddit

Our street is closed due to waterworks, but half the street still has cars parked on it and it’s now delayed the waterworks.

We did get letters for a month beforehand telling us all to move our cars and even got a permit to allow us to park places we usually can’t but no. They’ve decided that because the waterworks ‘haven’t reached this end of the street yet’ they’ll continue to park there. Even though it means the works vehicles can’t get down the road.

Not technically illegal, but definitely dickheads.

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HailToTheBusDriver88@reddit

How do you know she didn't have permission to park there? Maybe she knows the homeowners.

I'm not the woman btw 😆

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hhfugrr3@reddit (OP)

I mean it's possible, although I did notice she wasn't there yesterday when the home owners were there. They seemed to be out when she was there as their cars were gone.

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misterbooger2@reddit

Saw this one guy incite an insurrection a few years back. Didn't really like it, but pretty confident it's all going to check out legally

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hayyah@reddit

Don’t think this is a dickish move if she was still sat in the car? If the owner of the driveway needed to access it, she was there to move out of the way.

Had she parked and left the car there, then that obviously would be another story.

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The issue with £50 notes is they are the easiest to forge! That's why a lot of places won't accept them!

TuftOfTheLapwing@reddit

Dropping in 🏄🏼

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lookeo@reddit

Whose to say they don't know the person who lives there and have an arrangement?

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hhfugrr3@reddit (OP)

Maybe.

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luujs@reddit

Someone repeatedly farted next to me on a full bus today. Not sure who it was, they were silent but repeatedly farting. It smelt absolutely rank so I got off the bus early and walked 10 extra minutes home.

237583dh@reddit

Eating a stinking McDonald's meal in the children's A&E waiting room, literally full of injured and hungry small children.

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greggery@reddit

One woman had decided to park ON somebody's drive (it's a big wide driveway that they've just had put in recently) and sit there waiting for her kid to come out.

I mean it's not a crime. It's not hurting the people who live there. But, it still struck me as a massive dick move.

Announce a change of format to a group meeting/activity 5 minutes before it starts.

My one is a tabletop gaming session, two different GMs said "we do it this way now" 5 minutes before we started.

Bonus points if anyone has had it just before a work meeting

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Snoo_52035@reddit

Lime bikes/rent a bikes dashed all over the paths and roads all over London! An access nightmare for wheelchair users, people with prams, and anyone really!

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flohara@reddit

Going to a good café, ordering an extra hot skinny latte, and expecting latte art on it.

It's 50% water to begin with, and you asked them to scramble the milk. It's going to be a lump, and taste like breastmilk. There's no point paying for premium coffee if you order this.

One woman had decided to park ON somebody's drive (it's a big wide driveway that they've just had put in recently) and sit there waiting for her kid to come out.

Of course that hurts the people who live there.

It's their driveway, and now if they want to park on their own driveway, they've got to have a confrontation with this selfish Karen.

Not to mention the wear and tear on their brand new driveway.

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X0AN@reddit

I had some stupid woman park on my driveway and when I told her to piss off she said no.

So I just blocked her car in with my own.

I was going and would be drinking in the evening, so I just left her and my car blocking her there.

Obviously her car was still there when I got home, though she wasn't.

When I came back from work the next day her car had gone and I never saw her again.

Hopefully she has now learnt not to park in peoples driveways.

But honestly what sort of twat parks in someones driveway and when you're told to move. Just move.

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homelaberator@reddit

It's not hurting the people who live there.

This cuts right to the heart of the moral issue. When we say "no big deal" we are deciding how others feel about what we do to them. We are stripping a really basic autonomy over someone when we decide for them what their emotions are.

We don't have the right to decide if it's hurting anyone or not. Not only are we imposing our will by using their property for our own desires, we take a further step and impose our will on how they should feel about it.

Maybe, they had entered their drive into "Britain's best drives" and had spent all morning cleaning it ready for the photographer who is coming in 12 minutes. And by parking there you've just turned the most exciting day of their lives into an incredibly, gut churning, stressful one.

Maybe, they are waiting for the funeral home to deliver their husbands body for a wake and had cleared out extra space so that he could make that one last trip home with dignity.

Maybe they'd just popped up to the shops with their fleet of US style pickups, and will now have nowhere to park the third one.

Maybe, the love children and deliberately bought a home near a school because they love the noise of hundreds of kids emptying onto the streets every afternoon and particularly enjoy parents parking in their drive because they remember the struggle when they had kids.

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Nostalgia404@reddit

Dog walkers on pathways that don't retract the lead when they clearly see you coming towards them. I take long walks everyday and this happens at least one day a week.

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piecurrantdog@reddit

People parking in child bays without children.

They should have to apoligise

oo er mrs

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Ze_Gremlin@reddit

Not sure if I should go with a Sid James or Kenneth Williams remark..

Either way, carry on..

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Beautiful_Net2409@reddit

I get that, but this person in particular said they were just doing it to be nasty.

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Montinator89@reddit

I mean even if their intent was to be nasty to the kids, this still feels like it's more in the real spirit of Halloween than 99% of the stuff you see nowadays.

If you don't like kids but your door is going to get knocked by them all night regardless, tricking them rather than treating them definitely seems like it's a win for everyone.

Halloween is just turning in to "everybody gets free sweets" in recent years which kind of takes all the fun out of it.

We need more kid hating pranksters to keep the real spirit of Halloween alive.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

The "real spirit" of Halloween has always been kids going door to door getting free sweets, right back to guising in Scotland and Ireland hundreds of years ago.

"Trick or treat" refers to the more modern variant where you either give kids sweets or the kids perform a trick on the house-owner.

House owners tricking kids has never been a part of the tradition, and isn't what "trick or treat" means.

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Shaper_pmp@reddit

I think you've missed the point of that tradition.

The tradition was that kids would shout "trick or treat!" and then the house-owner would either give them sweets or the kids would play a trick on them.

These days people are a lot less tolerant of kids egging their house or toilet-papering their bushes, so the "trick" part has kind of died out as everyone has learned to respect the "no decorations outside means don't knock on the door" convection, but it never meant the house-owner playing tricks on the kids.

That's not part of the fun of it - that's just someone being shitty to kids instead of simply refusing to take part.

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indianajoes@reddit

Leaving trolleys in the parking spot next to yours instead of back to the corral

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pavlovs_pavlova@reddit

People who stand in the middle of the path to have a conversation, so you have to either ask them to move or walk in the road to get around them. I know it's easy enough to ask, but one, some people have social anxiety, and two, a footpath is for people to walk down, not stand blocking other people's way.

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WarmTransportation35@reddit

Driving a car very loudly

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ExArdEllyOh@reddit

... with the stereo on max volume going "boom-tish, boom-tish, boom-tish" for literally hours on end.

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SamVimesBootTheory@reddit

This was a while back

But once I stalled a car on the approach to a roundabout, which was really stressful (learner driver) and I was having problems getting the car going again, obviously not helped by the fact I knew I was holding people up so I was stressed about that on top of stressed about getting the car going and someone cut in front of me to get onto the roundabout

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ExArdEllyOh@reddit

Yoga teacher doesn't seem to be a suitable job for shy people...

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Key-Question5808@reddit

Someone sticking their peepee in the Mrs

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Lewis19962010@reddit

The people that clear out the majority of the reduced section in 1 sweep taking all of everything and trying to block the area off with their trolleys

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Galromir@reddit

People who own large SUVs or Utes but don't have any actual need to do so. If it was up to me, anyone that wants to own anything larger than a CX-60 would have to apply for special permission and prove why they needed it.

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sxcpetals@reddit

Mothers bringing their screaming babies into spas and as an esthetician having to finish a service while a screaming baby is quite literally screaming within 12 inches of my face on top of the mother’s lap. Don’t get me started on the singalong toys and loose granola that add to the chaos in which I have to clean on top of protocol sanitisation in moments given my next client is waiting in the lobby and the service took way longer given the moms break to calm their babies down and with Esthetics it’s a step by step to completion.

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Oh, I’ve got one for you from Saturday in Ipswich! So, after the match, I’m walking down Portman Road, where the mood's half celebratory, half muttering about the ref, you know the usual. Anyway, there's this bloke in a Ford Fiesta who’s clearly decided he’s too important to queue with the rest of us to leave the car park. So what does he do? He pulls his car onto the pavement, right up next to a family walking by, and just sits there with his engine running, waiting for a “gap” in traffic.

Now, technically, he’s not breaking any law, I guess—he's just… on the pavement. And the rest of us are dodging him like he's part of a poorly planned obstacle course. No one's really getting hurt, but you can feel everyone else thinking, “Mate, that’s just a bit much, isn’t it?”

One woman had decided to park ON somebody's drive (it's a big wide driveway that they've just had put in recently) and sit there waiting for her kid to come out. I mean it's not a crime.

Which is also to say, if someone parks on your driveway and you get home and say "fuck it, I'll just block them in" you are committing a criminal offence by obstructing them. Which is absolutely ridiculous.

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allthebeautifultimes@reddit

Well, watch out, neighbour's shiny new drive! (jk, I don't even own a car)

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cuntsuperb@reddit

Skateboarders who speed down sloped on the narrow pedestrian pavement who refuse to slow down or get off even when they see you, they’d just rather almost crash into me every single time.

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AJMurphy_1986@reddit

Wouldn't that be some sort of trespass offence?

SpudFire@reddit

My friend used to live opposite a school and had somebody do that. They then got out and started walking towards the school with their kid. Acted like he was doing nothing wrong when my friend went out and told him to move it. It wasn't even like there was nowhere else to park, but that would have meant walking further than my friends driveway.

Although in your case, perhaps the woman in the car knew the owners of the house and already had permission to sit there?

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Proper_Instruction67@reddit

People not watching their kids out in public. Instead if actually doing my job I had to look after a 1 year old at work because he was throwing cutlery all around and going through the bins just for his dad to come and yell at me for not letting his kid into a bin. Or on a plane sitting in front of a kid who can't stop kicking my seat while the mum is too busy going through her phone

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Adept_Difference_715@reddit

My old man would have been out there at them cracking up bigtime lol massive dickmove. Like resting your hand on a strangers lap

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friends_with_salad_@reddit

There's a roundabout at the end of my road that's always slow during peak hours and has a filter lane to turn off into a suburb that, when queuing orderly, I see 2-3 chancers go down the filter lane, across the inside lane of the roundabout and then force their way back into the main lane.

They almost always get blocked by the first few cars who commit to a bumper-to-bumper line defence. Dicks.

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