Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

Man in the queue for the Ladies Fitting Room, obviously holding the place for someone. Arms draped with clothing and furtively looking out for whoever it was to return as he neared closer and closer to the front of the queue.
I said to him “Are you holding a place in the queue for someone?”, he replied with a shake of his head “no understand” with a thick accent.
“Oh yes you do” I said “and you need to be somewhere else!”
Multiple women at that point turned to him expressing the same sentiments….he then left!

Yes

An example I have is when DH took DD (then 12) to a Covid test centre for a test before school as we were flying out within the next 48/72 hours whatever it was. They got they before it opened so as not to miss morning registration and to their surprise there was a long queue. Got in line and waited some guy walks straight up to the front expecting to go in. All the ‘queuers’ were not happy but the person at the front handled it perfectly I think. Asked queue jumper very politely if they were here for a Covid test? Reply was ‘yes’. So he told them everyone else was there for that same reason and there was a queue and the back was down there. Queue jumper obliged and went to the back.

DH came back and told me the story and I was impressed. It doesn’t have to be a confrontational situation at all.

To be honest I think the ability to queue and maintain an orderly fair queue should be part of the citizen test and taught in schools.

“Sorry, have you got special dispensation that lets you push in in front of all of us?”

I got in trouble once because I was at an event typically frequented by young trust fund types. Some young women decided they didn’t fancy waiting for the toilet queues and pretended they were going to be sick and ran to the front to push in. As it was clearly bullshit I stuck my foot out and they all fell over. 😂 I say ‘in trouble’, the security guard laughed and told me not to do that. They were all still making a fuss about it when I came out of the toilet and strolled away.

Not for planes or trains. And I think it’s nice to give the benefit of the doubt. People sometimes have good cause.

No! Absolutely not. I am British after all!

Yes, I do.
My personal favourite was, while waiting patiently to buy a ticket for a bus tour, a woman walked straight up to the seller. When I pointed out that I was next she said 'I just wanted to ask a question'.
I said I have waited my turn and so can you.

I was once "called out" for pushing in at the priority line for the plain she even ran me over with her electric scooter while loudly saying these young ones pushing in its disgusting! Until I calmly told her I had booked assistance as I have arthritis, degenerative disease and a dislocating knee cap when ever it feels like especially on stairs she definitely felt embarrassed and said not all disabilities are visible and you don't have to be old to need help 😂

Always. I can't stand people thinking their time is more important than everyone else.

I quite enjoy it

I don’t think I could get upset about a plane. You’ve got a seat. I’d rather be stood than cramped into a plane seat. I rarely queue, I generally wait for the end. Most of the time seats are allocated and I (usually) only carry the bare minimum of hand luggage (the stuff I’ll actually use in the flight). I find it baffling.

Yes a woman did it in an apple specialist store (not actually Apple). I said excuse me, we are stood here waiting (with a queue of people which you know, was a bit of a clue) and she said ‘pardon me’ in a very inconvenienced way to which I responded ‘no, I won’t.’ She was taken aback having been challenged and was very entitled, suggesting she wasn’t sure what she had done despite being presented with the facts. She looked me up and down and I gave her a Paddington hard stare. I have never been that confrontational before but honestly, some people are very entitled. However, I think Elsa said it best.. let it go

That's what I do. I also don't do it if I think it will cause a scene. I don't care that much.

I don't get why people queue to board planes at all tbh, we all have allocated seats right? I usually just sit and wait till the end and walk straight on.

But with regards to other queues, yes pusher inners are rude and well done for holding them to account. I don't have the bottle, I usually just try to cut them off or talk loudly about it to make them feel bad, never works mind. I am sorry but there is no excuse for rudeness, we all have to get along and should all follow the same social rules.

Because the door is really tiny and we can’t all fit in at once 🤷‍♀️

stonedaisy,will be wary of that one in future!

Someone did it to me once when I hadn't pushed in. It was a very slow moving queue and I'd been standing in it daydreaming, when a man suddenly said to me "Excuse me, there is a queue, you know". I was quite startled and said "I know, I've been standing in it for 5 minutes" and he just sort of mumbled and moved off. To this day I'm bemused how he possibly thought I'd pushed in when I'd been standing still so long.

I have never really experienced it in the UK except in places with a lot of tourists from countries where pushing in is normal.

What. In a Tesco queue? Don't be dopey

I was shopping in M&S with mum and young DC once. Mum was ready to queue so took DC with her and told me to have a look round (it was a long queue). I joined her in the queue a few minutes later. I didn't have anything to buy but had appreciated the look around. A bloke two behind her in the queue started making PA jokes to those around him about queue jumpers and the woman behind me told me there was a queue. I was really irked and pointed out that (1) I could see there was a queue and that I knew where the back of it was but that (2) I wasn't actually buying anything, just standing with my mum and DC who were in the queue ahead of her. She was really embarrassed and muttering 'yes, OK', but I was so cross.

Don't challenge people unless you're sure they're doing what you think they're doing.

I always put myself forward at the bus stop regardless of how many people might have been there before me or whether there is anything resembling a queue. I know it sounds rude, but I’ve been caught out by this too many times- me thinking I’m letting other people on first only to realise they are waiting for another bloody bus so no one steps forward and I don’t do so in time and the bus keeps on going! Nope. Too many hesitant people who dotter about or can’t see the bus number, I step right to the front and put my hand out regardless of who is waiting

I have done in the past. Just after Covid when shops had reopened but there was still the 2m social distancing thing in place I was in the queue in Primark standing distanced from the person in front. A couple attempted to sidle in and insert themselves into the gap. I pointed out to them that the end of the queue was behind all the other people also standing distanced from each other, luckily the woman behind me backed me up and told them to wait like everyone else. We got a death glare from them but off they went to the back. A few years ago I probably would have let it go but I'm turning into one of those middle aged women who is so done with people pleasing and out of fucks to give with cheeky twats.

I don't if they are aggressive, especially men. Not worth it

Yes I always say politely ‘excuse me, there’s a queue’

Believe it or not, the British are fairly laid back queuers. I was in Japan recently and there were actually warnings in English not to queue jump. It's practically a hanging offence over there.