Sally Redux

Scrapcat

You can get more of these on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/soverybritish

I must admit to many of these including hiding from the window cleaner......

sallysimmons

Oh my God. All of these! No wonder I never fit into US society

trottytrue

OMG.. I think I am one of those people. What is it about us, the one about the hand dryer in the loo, I wait till the person who is using the dryer leaves before I exit the loo and if someone is in the next loo to me I bung a handful of toilet roll down the loo so no one will hear me tinkle.

Perth

+1

PS: I have just been through their facebook page posts. Have yet to find one I don't identify with! Here's one of my favs :
Having someone sit next to you on the train, meaning you'll have to eat your crisps at home.

trottytrue

Here's one not on the list, in the supermarket picking a bunch of bananas about to pull one off as I feel it's a little bruised but I see the assistant looking at me so I take the bunch and keep the bruised one

Perth

J.JsOH

Some of them crossed my mind but I rarely act on them, probably leading people to think I am rude but really life is too short to worry about this stuff.

Re number 25, I will politely wait sometimes and sometimes ask to be excused while i reach through. I'm not the worst, while I peruse it is not unusual to have someone reach in front of me without a word of apology to which I sometimes say "you are welcome" and receive a "sorry" back.

Adding one for the list, feeling like a wuss because I wash my hands after using public toilet while many more macho men just flush and leave.

Bnet36

Just this Sunday in my local supermarket, an older man was choosing his bananas rather meticulously for any one normal and I stood and looked at the onions next to the bananas until he was done...he took forever. I thought to myself I should just say 'excuse me' but couldn't do it. I am normal...a normal Brit!

Can't wait to be amoungst people like me������

Perth

Been there, done that

Bnet36

Mummy in the foothills

Right there with you.

TheLonestarBrit

Haha! I can relate to nearly all of these. I thought I was just odd and shy and unassertive ... apparently it's just because I'm British

Of course ... having lived in Texas I'm getting over my assertiveness problem, but I have still done many of these even over here.

EnglishLass

Yes yes yes!! I can relate to nearly ALL of them! After 24 years in Australia there had to be a reason why I still feel like coming home.
Only yesterday I walked past the shop I was supposed to go into, kept walking and pretending everything's cool, I know exactly what I'm doing, etc, pretended I then needed to go into the next shop I came to, then had to spend time looking at things (to be polite), thought I'd better buy something (so as not to appear rude), came out again, made sure I turned the right way when I left the shop (lol), and went back to the original shop I originally intended to go into!! And all because I didn't want to look like I don't know where I'm going.
And today, there was a nice old lady s-l-o-w-l-y putting potatoes into her shopping basket. I really wanted to get to the potatoes as well, but pretended to be looking at the onions in a really interested way, whilst waiting for her to finish. And then when she did finish and I went to fill my own basket with potatoes, she said to me "oh sorry, dear, I didn't realise you were waiting"!! So all was in vain anyway.
And yes, the not remembering people's names - there's some people I've been aquainted with for a couple of years and I still don't know their names - I can hardly ask them again what their name is now can I?

Bud the Wiser

LOL. Just seen this. I can relate to that. Or you let them go soggy in your mouth before you start munching.