Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

I was queueing to board a plane

Do you get to the destination faster if you board earlier? If there is one place I couldn't care less about queue jumping, it's airports. No one gets anywhere any sooner when they are scrambling around to get on and off planes, so just relax 😎

I'm one of those who huffs and puffs and doesn't say anything but make my annoyance known. When it comes it bar queues however I am ruthless! Xx

Absolutely make a fuss!
Once, long ago, I queued over an hour for a delayed train in London. A couple walked straight to the front of the long, long line. Someone immediately politely pointed out there was a queue but were ignored. Several more passengers made it clear less politely. Then a a police officer was brought, who said there was nothing he could do, the queue -'jumpers smirking smugly at this.
So when the gates to the platform were finally opened, the queue, working as one, mobbed them. They were surrounded, shoved out of the way. Several people 'accidentally' bumped into them wiith their luggage.
Oh joy!

👏 Winner of the thread, clearly.

A man in front of me once tried to get served before 2 children in front of him. They looked so confused so I said really loudly to the server “They were first.”

Server looked uncomfortable as they knew the man was trying to push in and hadn’t dealt with it themselves.

Man said “Oh I didn’t see them.”

Yes he did, unless he walked through them or over them as he’d managed to queue behind them until they were at the front.

Not having that!

We were recently in Portaventura in Salou queuing for a ride. There was a girl behind us with her partner. The entire queue she was literally up my ar$e (I was behind my husband with our child in front of him) I moved in front of my husband so I was in front, my child between us and him at the back. At one point she managed to squeeze herself past my husband level with my son then reached behind my husband to take her partner’s hand to pull him forward. I am not an aggressive person at all but when she tried to push past me I actually put my hand on her and pushed her back saying ‘NO’ I actually couldn’t believe someone would thing that was an acceptable thing to do. Even now I am agog that someone would thing this was acceptable behaviour.

I don't understand the plane boarding thing. Its been a few years since I flew anywhere but I thought that once you had booked in and got your boarding pass with seat allocation it was irrelevant when you got on. I always waited till the scrum was over and then just got on without all the hassle. Most of my flights were long haul so the less time sitting in the one place the better as far as I was concerned.

A woman tried to push ahead of me two days ago when I was in queue to board a plane. I turned and said: ' sorry, but this is the system. You queue but you don't try jump it'. Got a real 'f... you' look, but it worked!

My daughter and I waited 35 minutes at a Taylor Swift concert for one of the merch stands. A couple pushed in saying they were “just looking” then got served straight away!!! They stood there smirking 😡
I told them to f* o** to the back of the queue and wait like everyone else, they bought what they wanted and sauntered off - cheeky fuckers!!!

One time I was queuing in the pharmacy for my pain relief and antibiotics prescription as I had an abscess in my tooth, I was in agonising pain and could barely stand still when an older man went to the front of the queue of about 6 people under the guise of asking if something was in stock then gave it the “while I’m at the front I can just quickly get my prescription”. I absolutely kicked off. On a normal day I’d probably be annoyed but would leave it because he was older, but he was visually fit and well with no mobility issues (maybe early 60s) and my jaw was giving me the worst pain I’d ever felt!

Definitely. I’m in a queue to pay/board/whatever for me. I’m not being a placeholder for some self-important CF!

Not to sound aggressive but nobody pushes in front of me. I hate queuing and I hate queue jumpers. You ain’t getting in.

You are raising him well!

It's not something I'd ever comment on, I don't see the point as they don't really care. But I'm glad we don't have to suffer theme park queues etc as we have a ride access pass.

If you're old enough to be a fan of Suede and the Manics you'll know elbowing/dancing your way to the front is the old school way of gigging.

Yes: your username chimes with my most recent experience: at Suede & Manics last night, an assortment of brazen, pushy, mouthy females tried to bypass people who'd made the effort to travel early & stand for hours to be at the front. These entitled clowns thought they could shake their arses & bump on through. Short shrift met them, & they were most indignant. That they reeked didn't help & attempting to cover their farts with vapes had them slung from their targeted zone, just before Brett sashayed amongst us.
It's always the same, brass-necked latecomers walk up & test the patience of folk who've often queued since midday or before. Men, women; the shock when people say no, call them out (or shove them back), I'll never tire of their wide-eyed horreur! Guess their parents never said no...

Last year at Alton towers we queued for ages for one of the rides (My sister, 8 year old son and nephew).
A couple of teenagers and their mother came up behind us, they’d queue jumped about 30 minutes worth of queue. They told me that they were going through to meet up with friends. I told them they weren’t. No regrets (my nephew was impressed, my sister was embarrassed though 😂).

I always say something. But I’m not English. Most recently, 2 school girls decided to go right to the front of a 30 people deep queue for the tube at Canary Wharf. I said loudly “Excuse me girls, there is a queue here.” There looked sheepish and moved along to another part of the platform. People around me had been tut tutting and clearly annoyed but said nothing. A couple of men said “well done”. Not sure why they hadn’t said anything themselves to the girls.

A couple of weeks ago I was queueing in a longish line at the pharmacy section in a large Boots. A woman and her husband stood near the queue, not in it. Just before my turn she dashed forward and started asking the pharmacist a question. I said loudly - excuse me, there is a queue here and I’m next. They went to the back.

I think you are right OP. We need to call it out or it will keep happening. You can be polite.

Often tho you are lead to a different queue that either merges or you are left one end meaning when you get to the front no one can see that you were directed there by staff - you would be surprised at the things people say :( but then we have also had a lot of issues in blue badge parking spaces when 2 healthy adults get out the front and it’s not till we get out son out the back that they stop

Totally understand jumping the queue on this situation. If you are being let to that spot by someone who works there and you have a wheelchair in tow I definitely wouldn't say anything at all. You need all the help you can get

I've called queue jumpers out on a good feed occasions. I point at the end of the queue and say "the end of the queue is there", and keep saying it until they move 🤣🤣🤣 I hate queue jumpers.

I do comment as well as when you hold a door for someone and they have no manners

Yes 💯 and I don't care what people care about me calling it out.

My son is a wheelchair user and on life supporting equipment - we are often moved the front eg at airports because he needs to board safely so he is always first on and last off - you would not believe the hate and abuse that we get. General queue jumping then I understand challenging but you never know if there’s a reason or if they have been told to do so.

At DDs' pre-school the leavers got the main parts in the Nativity. They saved the front two rows for parents of the leavers. DD1 was Mary, we got to sit right at the front. DD2 was 10 months old and I'd expected her to be very wriggly, but she sat on my lap with wrapt attention throughout, watching her big sister on stage.