Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

100%. the plane isn’t leaving without you. I just wait until the end and everyone has finished faffing around. It’s like the scrabble to get off as well. Just relax, it’s only a few minutes why the stress?! I’m almost always last on, last off a plane 😂.

Queue jumping in general though, absolutely call that out. You don’t have to be rude.
‘Excuse me, I’m afraid the back of the queue is actually over there’ tends to do the trick. Even if they clearly did it deliberately it gives them a less embarrassing ‘out’.

I tell them to get the fuck back in line.

sassyclassyandsmartassy, I had this about 20years ago, waiting in the queue for a little train ride, and Asian gentleman in front of me. Ready to get on train and about 20 kids came running up in front of us and got on the train, guy reckoned he couldn't speak English when I challenged him. I was raging.

I am not assertive in the slightest, and am a bit of a pushover... but I can find my voice when someone tries to push in.
I was at a checkout in Lidl, and the cashier was literally about to start scanning my shopping, when some CF came up to me with a basket of items (more than I had!) and asked to go infront. For some reason, all of the people behind me had let him skip the queue. I told him no, and that I was next.

In Boots recently the queue was just me, another woman was hovering but appeared well after me and wasn't looking like was waiting to be served. She tutted at me and called me rude when I was rightly served before her, so I span round and told her I had been waiting and I was there before her. She swore at me and flounced off to the other tills. Saw her standing in a much larger queue as I walked out of the shop!

Another recent one was upon landing at Luton airport. They opened the family gates for us to go through passport control and an older couple tried to come through with us. Staff member asked if we were all together and woman shouted YES as I said no, although suddenly realised that was a bit tight and I could have said yes and done a good deed. Then she called me a fxxking bxxch so I felt better about my decision then.

If someone cuts in front of me & is in earshot I'll ask them if they're in a hurry & ask "did you want to jump in then?"
Just to make a point but I don't usually say much else, I normally aim it as a sort of joke

I skipped the. Queue for the bus last night. Probably wouldn't have got on otherwise

A similar-ish thing happened when leaving a gig with my Mum. We were at Maine Road Manchester (yes many years ago) and it was probably Bon Jovi or Pink Floyd, can't remember, we went to lots. Everyone was pushing to get out. The tunnels were very narrow and as my mum was only 4' 11" and a fair bit older than everyone else, as was I to be fair, I was worried she might get knocked over, so I bellowed STOP FUCKING PUSHING and amazingly everyone did. She was so proud of her delicate little daughter, but we all left safely.

Joking aside it is easy to see how these bad crush situations happen, it is a bit scary and you were lucky not to be trampled underfoot.

You can understand this sort of thing if people are in a situation when they are literally starving and fighting over the last loaf of bread, but going into or out of an entertainment event is ridiculous.

I am very small and old so am often overlooked. I always say in my bestclearRP, "I believe it's my turn next" or point to some other hapless person who is being ignored.

My daughter groans and says "what are you up to now."

Good old Poundland 😆

I always do

I was in Tesco a few weeks back, and whenever I have a lot of items I will always offer someone directly behind to go before me if they have a few bits so they don't have to wait ages.

However, this couple, who were older, so not youngsters, old enough to be potentially grandparents, decided queueing didn't apply to them.

I had a small basket, and the woman decided to use her stuffed trolley as a make shift battering ram, trying to smack me in the kegs and get past me.

I managed to avoid it and said "NO!" with force.
She looks at me and starts talking rapidly to her husband in French, I managed to pick out a few words along the lines of me being a cow for not getting the hint and letting her go before me.

So I said "I can understand what you are saying and there is a queue, I am before you and have 4 items, what's your excuse?"

She then got angry at me! At this point, a Tesco employee intervened and told her to go back in the queue.

Some people just think they're entitled to ignore good manners and conduct.

I do. I particularly hate people who say ‘I got kids’ as if having offspring with you sometimes gives you priority.

Oh my God! People are just unbelievable sometimes. Sorry this happened to you.

Same thing happened with me in Poundland. I hate queue jumping with a passion,especially because I'm disabled with mobility problems and find standing in a queue for ages exhausting. About a year ago,I politely pointed out to the woman who joined the queue at the front that the queue started 'back there', gesturing behind me. She rounded on me, saying that she was waiting to use the self-service tills. I said 'There aren't two separate queues for self-service or manned tills'. She accused me of being aggressive! Obviously she'd led a very sheltered life if she thought that my behaviour was anything like aggressive.

Yeah I've been going to gigs for more decades than I care to quote-theres a difference between the good natured shimmying through the throng, & full-on thumping verging on assault. Yes it happens, doesn't make it right. I don't go to gigs & think, 'great, now I can literally attack my way through people'.

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Brutal!

We were at a city light show. The road was closed and there was one of those snake queues with fences to manage people who wanted to go into one of the buildings and see the lights. They were letting people in groups inside every five mins, so the queue moved quickly, then stopped, then moved quickly etc.

We were in the queue and when it moved forwards, I didn't notice the kerb. I tripped and fell flat on my face. People behind used this opportunity to step over the top of me and get ahead of me in the queue 😮

When he did the threatening "you don't know who I am" etc i said " you're a queue jumper who everyone thinks is a dickhead"
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I was shaking the whole time inside but kept going mostly as I was also enjoying it & I really really didn't want him to win.

I was once travelling with a friend in Europe when group of women with small children tried to push in front of us at the pay desk. I called them out. They said they would miss their train - and would have to wait eight hours for another one. They hovered behind me while I was paying so I put my arm around my friend (who was going somewhere else) to keep them at bay.

Once my transaction was done I did not stand aside to allow them in behind me. I kept my arm around my friend so they couldn't push in before he had bought his tickets. All one of them had to do was say "Please can we go first or we are going to miss our train, there's not another until this evening" and we would have allowed them in front. Instead they swore at us repeatedly, until a member of the security team got involved and escorted them to the back of the queue.

St Marcos in Venice has long queues & attracts people who seem to be super entitled & very practiced queue jumpers. I saw 2 off. We were about 10 in a queue of thousands.

One very well dressed, tall, handsome, very entitled guy in his 30's said it was a free county & he could do what he liked. I replied "ok great, I'll use my freedom to tell you what an arsehole you are the entire time you continue to stand there."

Which I did. Loudly. For several minutes - not sure how long. 10 or so minutes - the opening was delayed. It felt like forever but I wasn't giving up & it made queuing less boring. He even threatened me "you will regret this you don't know who I am in this town" etc. Sure dude whatever.

Eventually he decided to leave - entirely his decision of course 😃😃😃

He wasn't even in front of me but muscling in on some mortified Japanese tourists behind me in the queue. They were very thankful once he was gone.

My kids were both astonished, embarrassed & delighted.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Depends on the queue.

For boarding a plane, who cares, you all have tickets, you will all get on the plane and arrive at the same time. What's the point in pushing to the front just to have to sit and wait for everyone else 🤷‍♀️

On other occasions I am entirely happy to speak up or get my elbows out.

I did during covid. Our supermarket, like many, had stickers on the ground where you had to stand when queuing for the till. However, they went down the aisles so the queue couldn't quite be seen.
Or easier to pretend not to see.
Anyway, I was queuing with my trolley and a guy, mid to late 30s? went with his basket to the till and put his shopping on the conveyor belt. I was a bit taken aback but thought oh well, it's just a few items so let it go. But when another man of a similar age did the same I did say ahem there is a queue here! He did then take his basket and join the queue.

Not bothered when boarding a plane, it won't leave without me! I always wait on a comfy seat until the line has gone down. But yesterday I was in a queue for a loo when two 20ish girls pushed through and used the disabled loo. Wished I'd stopped them, they were too quick for me.

I do, i just say in a ver loud voicem excuse me, the end of the queue is just over there. Very occasionally you get someone who tells you to F**k off but most realise they can’t push in. I agree airport security queues are different, nothing more stressful than being close to missing a flight based on something going wrong on your journey to airport.

Saw the classiest act ever once many moons ago at a supermarket. The bloke hadn’t barged into a queue as such but he had taken a loaded trolley to a 10 items and less checkout (not seen one of those for years now). There were a few remarks made directly to him and other people in the queue grumbling quietly but he ignored it all. He reaches the checkout and the checkout girl smiles warmly at him and says, ‘good morning sir and which 10 items would you like” Cue a round of applause and he marched out in a huff with none of his items. Brilliant; wish they could all be like that but these days it’s probably too much of a risk for any of them to take