Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

My kids school the parents are completely unable to que. It's infuriating.
DH and I went to an event for my little girl before they finished for summer. We were really early to get first in the queue because she was nervous about her event.
An elderly gran of a child one of the children when she arrived said her legs were hurting and the que was too long. So the teacher let her in the hall to have a seat to rest.
When were came in at the correct time. The old lady was in the front row with her stick and jackets along the whole front row.
I was so annoyed but I left it as my dc needs to go to school with these families for the next 7 years

All school events are like this and I end up fuming 😂

You have obviously never flown on a US airline!

I did it to a woman ahead of me in a theme park ride queue once, we were chatting nicely and then she mentioned how her family would be joining her soon. So I asked how many people she would be inviting to queue jump, then we argued for a few minutes about how that is or isn't queue jumping. I directed her to the signs all around the park that describe what she was doing as queue jumping and isn't tolerated. Then she went quiet, but texted her husband and he and 3 kids joined the queue at the end, but then they had some awkward interactions as we zig zagged past each other in the queue. I regret nothing

I’m a larger lady so I always say to people who push in can’t you see me I’m not hard to miss

Everyone clapped! Amazing.

Regular couple in our local supermarket > We join the queue > He says, 'I'm waiting for my wife, but you're welcome to stand there'. We say, 'That's fine, we'll move.' . Turns out that he's in the queue and she's still going around the supermarket, and then joins him with a trolley-load of shopping.

Yep. Chessington World of Adventures last year. One family were constantly leaving one in the queue and joining them later by pushing through. Some guy spoke up just behind me and I joined the chorus, but had I have seen them first I defo would have said something first. She made some excuse about having a small baby that she had to leave with family to get on the rides, not sure how that excuses it, or excused it for 3 of them pushing through to meet the one in the queue when there were clear signs up stating it was not to be done! Also no idea why she didn’t buy a fast pass on that basis! Classic CF.

Queue jumpers are the worst! I remember working on customer service at a DIY shop. My next customer was a little old lady who was getting the change ready from her purse. Because she took a fraction of a second too long, the man behind her (big burly builder type) stepped round her and dumped his items on the counter. I quite pointedly told him that the lady was before him. He collected his items and went to stand back behind her, to which I then said: “No. To the back of the line”. Sheepishly, he joined the back of the (rather lengthy) queue. Gobby 16 year old: 1 Impatient builder man: 0. I don’t know what come over me, but it really pissed me off he didn’t give the lady an extra 30 seconds to get her money out of her purse. I still can’t believe he did it though. 🤷‍♀️
I wouldn’t have the moxy to do that now though.

I did that (seemingly Aldi exclusive 🤔) thing where you let one person with just a few items behind you go first.
He was very grateful..

Less so was his pal who sidled up with a crammed basket and didn't look at me once as he pushed infront of me.
Not sure if the same etiquette rules apply abroad, as they were from overseas.

I was still annoyed, so removed a pack of his luxury biscuits from the belt and hid them behind the checkout sweets.

Childish, but felt good 😶‍🌫️

I was stood behind a man at the supermarket check out, shopping still in his trolley. He suddenly wandered off without saying anything and I assumed he’d forgotten something, though usually people tell you if they’re quickly grabbing something.

Anyway, the person being served was all finished and he wasn’t back. The checkout lady asked after him and I said I thought he might have gone back for something. We just waited.

Eventually the staff member said I’d best go first as we can’t just wait forever and maybe he had actually gone. So I put my shopping on the conveyer belt ….. then he reappeared!!

He went absolutely berserk at me, saying I had pushed in and was the rudest person he’d ever met. He was full on shouting at me! I explained that I’d stood waiting but he hadn’t said where he was going or if he was coming back. I only went in front of his trolley when staff asked me to.

I was shocked someone could be so aggressive and rude about me “pushing in” when they’d seemingly abandoned their shopping.

Only when it is a queue that matters e.g. supermarket queue.

Otherwise I leave them to it. Boarding a plane - really don't care. Would rather be queuing for a bit longer than sat down in the seat I'm going to have to sit in for several hours - I usually board towards the end.

Always. It really boils my piss. I had a huge row with a woman (at bingo of all places 😂) because she was trying to walk straight past everyone queueing and I called her out on it and she got pissy.

I see it most at school. There are the same few people who either go right to the front and just push in or just HAPPEN to notice a friend at the front of the queue they need to speak to. It drives me mad - we all want to pick up or drop off our children and get to work (or whatever they do). But obviously some people are just more important 🙄

I don’t call it out because I don’t want to be THAT mum. My husband will though.

Yesterday on the train. No queue, it's just a swarm, but train etiquette is still followed, letting everyone off the train first and leaving a space where the doors open, everyone standing either side to wait. Lad barges past the last person getting off the train before anyone else had moved. The train employee on the platform was so annoyed he followed the lad onto the train to tell him off. The lad's response? 'You snooze you lose mate!' 🤣

This one does give me the rage a bit. If they were sheep they’d actually follow the bloody instructions and queue properly in both lanes and then merge in turn. It would save everyone a significant amount of time. There’s actually a huge amount of very boring maths involved and it’s really annoying that the vast majority of drivers seemingly refuse to accept that it’s actually better to queue in both lanes to the point of the lane merge

I may be slightly over invested as a family member did a lot of the work on the modelling of how to make road queues move faster 😁

sometimes there's a valid reason - I was leaving the airport to catch a train and the queue for departures was blocking the route to the station. I had to essentially join the queue and walk past a line of waiting people - one lady said 'excuse me!', gave me the stink eye and moved back in front of me. I just walked around her. In her defense, it would have seemed like i was queue jumping but I absolutely was not!

No the best one to do is slingshot round a roundabout.

Every single time. Always polite and more of a "the queue starts over there, yes I know it's not all that clear is it" but I always call it out.

Unfortunately not, but standing my ground meant I stayed ahead of them.

Yes. I was very very confrontational as a teenager. I have mellowed as I’ve gotten older. If someone pushes in front of me all that hard work and inner peace goes out the window and suddenly I’m ready to scrap. It’s one of the few things that still really irks me to the point I have to say something. Don’t know why but it does.

I'm British, Queues matter! but for me personally, it depends on the queue and whether the person is being absent minded or deliberately rude.

So supermarket where the queue isn't always obvious, can't get upset also not overly bothered to rush to get on a plane. Ride queues is where my inner rage comes out. I've shamed my family in Alton Towers and Disneyworld blocking queue jumpers from passing me.

That's true but I guess there's a reason they board people with kids, disabilities, additional needs first rather than last

We both need to up our taste in supermarkets,
but obviously not music 😆

The best queues to by-pass are the sheep drivers that get into single file way before the merge in turn. Fine by me if you want to leave an empty lane.

Yep I do it all the time - once in a queue for check in at airport (couldn’t do online check in) and a man decided he would start a second queue and went to the front and stood next to the people there, everyone tutting and moaning under their breath, so I walked over to him and loudly said that there is only one queue and he needs to join the back of the line - he was annoyed and tried to argue but suddenly the other people found their voices and agreed making him move back, everyone started clapping. But had I not done it then nobody else would have