London tube. Station is a very big ‘island’ type platform, so one large platform with trains arriving both sides. There are doors which indicate where you should stand, so people queue. Queues can be very long, sometimes 10m long.
Every 4 trains or so, there will be one that terminates at the next station. People have to change at my stop to travel further.
When these trains come in they are pretty empty and approximately 1/3 of the people on them change.
Some of them go to the back of the queue and some of them mill about not queuing and try and get on the next train. This drives me crazy as the platforms are very busy (made somewhat worse by the queues paradoxically!) and I think it’s just quite rude to get off the train and try and push in front of 20 or more people.
AIBU to tell these people to jog on to the back of the queue? I did yesterday when someone backed into me and stood on my foot and was tutted at.
My thoughts are that you can see where the train terminates and you shouldn’t get on one until it goes to your destination - this is what I always do on this line (appreciate it might be different if you’re going somewhere with multiple branches though). If you do get off, you should respect the queue.
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AIBU?
To think that you join the back of the queue in this situation?
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ClaudiaWankleman · 19/04/2019 10:10
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