Always in someone's way

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This might just be the circumstances I put myself in (backstage in a theater), but I constantly seem to be in someone's way lately. No matter where I stand, I accidentally get in the path they are planning to take. Sometimes we do the "back-and-forth dance" to avoid it, but it always seems inevitable. Sometimes it just feels safer to sit in a corner and only move when I need to.

Anyone else ever feel this way?

Ahhhhhhh yes, it happens to me all the time, and I mean all the time. It drives me mad, and it seems to disturb me so much that I've even come home crying angrily about it before.

I seem to get in the way in shops. I panic more when I go into small, narrow shops where there's lots of people because I'm bound to get in somebody's way even more. Actually it's OK when I'm on my own because I can take as little time as I like, but when I'm with somebody, that is the worst of all.

I hate it when I'm with my friend in Tescos. She's one of those who likes me to stay with her, and I don't mind, except she flits about and takes ages choosing what she wants, and I've just got to stand next to her waiting. Then somebody ALWAYS wants to get the item off the shelf that is exactly where I am standing at - no matter where I stand. And my friend never gets in the way of anyone, only I do. Even if I make out I'm looking too, I still seem to be standing in the most unlucky space because I'm always standing somewhere where people want to get past with a big trolley, and I always think, ''well if I had been standing over there, I wouldn't have be in their stupid way!'' And it's always the same.
Don't you hate it when you're walking down a narrow aisle with someone, and something has caught their eye and so they stop dead, and so you've got to stop dead behind them, and you notice there was someone coming up behind you, but instead of the person stopping dead unexpectantly first getting in the way, you get in the way. Ohh, that annoys me!

If it just happened to me occasionally, I wouldn't take any notice, but when it seems to happen every time you enter a shop, it does get you wondering if you are just a daft person always standing in everyone's way, and it makes you feel rather inadequate. It is also overwhelming.

Yep, I definately know how you feel, mate.

To be honest, it probably happens to almost everyone all the time. It's just that I however, with my poor co-ordination, have a hell of a time with it more than almost everyone.

Yup lol

Whenever I'm at a large family gathering, it always seems I'm in the bathroom when someone else wants to get in there, and I always feel as though I'm taking too long. I especially feel this way whenever it's a relative I feel nervous around!

I always manage to be in the bathroom nearly every time the phone rings or someone knocks on the front door. They really do seem to have perfect timing (not lol).

Mind you I rarely answer my phone or door anyway lol.

i bump into people a lot and tend to forget to give them space to get by me. i never think about my physical presence in space, so i forget how much room i take up. so yes, i am always in someone's way.

if i have more stress than usual and are particularly distracted it gets worse.

I'm also always in somebody's way, as well. I used to get very angry at myself over that, saying that I was always in somebody's way. It doesn't bother me and I try to keep in my own space now.

Last edited by CockneyRebel on 01 Dec 2011, 5:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I just hate it when I'm standing there daydreaming or absorbed in all the items on the shelf, when suddenly some woman creeps up from behind me and slowly says, ''excuse me, please'' and gently touches my sides - not only it irritates the f**k out of me, it also makes me jump out of my skin (I am a jumpy person). Men, on the other hand, don't do this. They say ''excuse me'' in a way that doesn't annoy me. They say ''excuse me'' in a quick sort of way and get to whatever they want then go again without standing in my space for too long, either that or they stand and wait. But women in general have to be so annoying, and they make me feel really awkward, because sometimes women snap at me to get out of their way, others stand there in my space for ages, others push right in front of me, and others touch me to gently pull me out of their way, and I feel like yelling, ''ohh just f**k off and stop thinking you're so polite all the time when you're really being a f*****g pain in the arse!'' Once some stupid woman came up behind me and said, ''excuse me, can you move your legs?'' and I felt like saying, ''yes, I will snap them off and stand them neatly up against the wall!''

God, stupid people! Men are much cool over this sort of thing, and they don't make me feel so awkward.

I'm actually quite the opposite. I'm extra-mindful about where people are around me. One or two people it's usually no big deal because I can keep track of them. But any more than that, like on a dance floor or crowded room, and the stress of trying to keep up with the people around me is overwhelming. God forbid one of them bump into me, causing me to recoil and bump someone else - like a pinball.

Glad to hear others get what I'm saying. I have lots of friends that have never understood my aversion to crowds, especially since I perform on stage. They don't understand that it's not the people themselves, but being IN the crowd I can't deal with.