I hope it works for you.
It has to work for some people. Some people have jobs with up to the minute deadlines and things like small children that have to be at a certain place down to the second sometimes. That is just the way the world works for many if not most people. God bless you if you have none of that but it still doesn’t give you the right to waste other people’s time by dawdling in unnecessary ways. Find a barber shop and hang out there if you are pining for the 1950’s.
I’m retired, and generally I have all the time in the world to do things (the exceptions being when I have to catch a bus) but I still don’t like to waste time standing in line behind people who don’t seem to grasp simple concepts like taking your wallet out of your pocket or purse before the clerk tells you the total. I don’t get apoplectic about it, just annoyed.
Wow. Talk about landsliding (that is not the right term I wish, but am too stupid to think of the correct term) to the extreme. And all I’ve added are ideas that might help impatient people understand concepts that might help them get through the usual delays in life. I am glad I ain’t you.
Busy mall Saturday afternoon. I and about 100 other people are headed toward the down escalator. The three bovines in front of me STOP 1 foot from the entrance to the escalator to debate as to where to have lunch, or which store has the best deal on shoes.
I was 2 steps behind them headed toward the escalator at full speed. I had to slam on the brakes to keep from running them over.
I wait
and I wait
and I wait some more
Finally I say “hey do you mind you are blocking the entrance to the escalator.”
Three bovine heads turn and look at me. Moo they all seem to say with the vacant bovine stares.
the herd then gets on the escalator.
About 3/4 of the way down, the head bovine looks at me and says “That was so rude”
I smile and reply “No what I said was a statement of fact. You were blocking the entrance to the escalator. statements of fact are not rude. What is rude is thinking that your private conversation was more important than the 100 people that wanted to get on the escalator.”
They all three look at me blankly and say MOOO.
I work in a hotel. Many times, someone will check in and as they are filling in the registration card, have trouble, because they “left their glasses in the car.” Is it a really a big suprise if you wear glasses, you might need them?
I am strongly disagreeing with you over here.
Roddy
Are you actually reading what I’m typing, or just acting like Manny from the first episode of Black Books for the hell of it?
Unless you’re a retiree living in some rural backwater in the 1950s, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that most of the rest of planet has things to do, places to be, and business to attend to, and it needs to be done sooner rather than later.
You don’t have to be a multitasking wizard or work at light speed, but simply acknowledging to the people behind you that you’re aware you’re holding them and up and you’re very sorry and will be done momentarily works wonders. And whilst you may feel you shouldn’t have to apologise for “not being fast enough”, the reality is you are inconveniencing other people by… not being fast enough, or trying to play chess with the ATM, or insist that you be given “new” banknotes, or any of the other annoying things people do that hold up queues for ages and inconvenience others.
Not me. I’m one of the irritating people who will go through the self check with a cart (or buggy, as they’re called here:dubious:) full of groceries.
I’m really picky about how stuff is packed, and I hate it when my poor avocado is put in the same bag as the apples, and my cold stuff is maybe one or two items to a bag, and they don’t listen to me when I tell them I can carry more than 3 cans at a time. Plus I HATE it when they try to speed things up by helping me unload the cart - I have a system! Don’t screw it up!!
In my defense, I’m pretty fast at it. I have a plan, a routine, and I know what will fit where. I make sure that any loose produce has a code label on it so I can just type the # in. If the effing machine doesn’t screw up, I don’t take any longer, and usually less time, than a line with a cashier and a bagger. It helps that the place I go to has a system where you can take full bags off the scales after the item has registered as being in the bag, so I don’t have stuff piling up and spilling over.
The only hitch is if I buy beer, and then I have to wait for someone to come look at my ID.
Me? Anal?
Actually, I think on careful examination you will find my point isn’t that I wish to do things at a snail’s pace but rather that I don’t allow myself to become upset when I am slowed down by others. I still stand by my original point, you and 99.99% of the world are not half as important as you think you are. Trite but true; stop and smell the roses sometime. You might actually enjoy not living by your self imposed deadlines.
You just don’t get it.
There are things setup specifically to accommodate quick use, such as ATMs and self check lanes, etc. Their purpose is for the person wanting to use it to be in and out. Period.
The 99.99% of the people you mention above are annoyed at the people who are so self absorbed as to not give a damn about others.
Again, if a person is taking a long time at an ATM during banking hours, then they should have the decency to go into the branch to conduct their business.
:smack: WTFF are people like that thinking? How do they justify both blocking a traffic area and calling other people rude for objecting? What exactly is the rudeness in “hey do you mind?”?!
And you are the arbitrator of how long is “long time” for someone else? Newsflash, you will never be able to change how the people around you behave. On the other hand, you have all the power you care to wield with regards to how you react to other people’s behavior and how that behavior affects you personally. Do I expect you to change? No. Then again, I do not believe you are part of the 0.01% and so your actions have little to no affect upon me. If you actually enjoy going around in a rush and getting upset with those who dare to disrupt your schedule, more power to you. I suspect you have many opportunities to find that enjoyment.
I ask myself if such people are applying for a mortgage through their ATM, it bugs me too.
Much like women who take such a long time to pack their cards into their purses after paying in the supermarket. Obviously it’s important for us to know that they manage their array of credit/store cards so well, but the reason for such goes over my head.
More so when they delay putting the remains of their shopping into their bags so they can carefully pack their cards then place the purse into its special place in their handbag :rolleyes:
I haven’t read the whole thread yet but I might have an answer to this, If already mentioned…sorry for being lazy.
The first time my son use an ATM (looong time ago) he put the card in 6 times as I sat and watched in the car. I finally gave up and went over, he could only figure out how to get fast cash and was getting $20 each time trying to get up to $200.
Hey, he said he didn’t need help to begin with.
Well bless your heart, is that what you think? That’s so sweet.
But wrong. These things are set up specifically to cut costs. (Whether or not equipment that needs continual maintenance, calibration, and upgrades are cheaper than cashier, I do not know.)
The point of the You-Young-Whippersnappers Contingent is NOT slow down and smell the roses. It is wake up, suck it up, and deal.
People have been waiting in line since there were two living together. For most of my life I never left the house without a paperback book, in case i got stuck in a line; now I just check messages or look up directions or something.
(I also leave myself an extra five or ten minutes and keep a stash of cash; planning ahead means more than pulling your bank card out before you get to the ATM.)
And, no, I don’t have a lawn.
I think the problem here is people who have to talk with their eyes - they can’t talk to somebody unless they’re looking at them and the other person is looking at them. We’ve got a salesman where I work who’s like that. I suppose it comes with his job, but when he’s helping out with my job (convention/banquet kitchen) it’s a problem. Dishing up the meals is basically an assembly line with a definite deadline, and when every time he wants to say something he has to stop what he’s doing and lean over so he can look directly at the person he wants to address, it brings everything to a screeching halt.
I used to have sort of the opposite problem with my roommate. I’d come downstairs to the kitchen specifically to fix myself a meal, and he’d immediately start up a conversation with me while I was trying to put my meal together. I’d be doing my thing, turning this way and that as I took stuff out of the fridge or cupboard, or turned on the oven, or got utensils out, and he would repeatedly stop talking - often in mid-sentence - every time I turned away from him to grab something. I finally broke him of that by repeatedly reminding him that I could still hear him while facing a different direction.
Heh heh: John Pinnette
There is always a scenario where the ATM will be hogged up - transferring of money from one account to another. It is because the instructions are so damned vague and people don’t do research beforehand.
First you have to select the type of banking account (saving, current, what-not), and you have to key in the account number. Second, when the transaction failed to work for any reason, the poor fellow has a BSOD moment, then try again. Again. Then call up the person he is supposed to transfer the money to and ask for the account.
I am not sure who to blame, the bank for the method, or the person.
Which is why I do all transfers online, at the bank’s website. Even I can’t be sure if I could get it right.
What does ATM stand for again? 
I think you might be right.