Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

On every flight I have been on most people stand up the moment the plane is on the stand and start to gather their belongings etc. General etiquette is that you wait until the people on the rows in front of you have shuffled down the aisle before you move off the plane. 'Getting out the way' is often tricky given the congested nature of an unloading plane (kids, old people, retrieving bags that were stowed in lockers several rows behind where someone was sat etc)

If you are in a such a rush why don't you pay extra to be near the front of the plane instead of being an arse at the back of it trying to squeeze past everyone in a narrow aisle?

This! What’s the rush to get on!

Fine, if you're the only one in the queue. Not fine if there's other people behind you who might not feel the same way.

I would mostly point it out and mostly do it politely!!

I have once or twice said to someone ‘there’s a queue here’ but to be honest it hasn’t happened to me that often- is it really that common? How can people have the brass neck?

There are times when it’s not that clear it actually is a a queue or what queue you are supposed to be in- I’m thinking of shops with multiple tills where sometimes it isn’t clear if it’s multiple separate queues or one ‘main’ queue and you move to which till becomes free first. Or yeah like someone says a gaggle of people but no clearly defined queue. And you know how when boarding they sometimes call some seats to board before others? Could it a situation like that? She was in a seat that had already been called or priority boarding?

I was waiting at Next a few weeks ago and there was an issue with the lady being served at the till. A lady with a buggy joined the queue behind me. We stood for about 5 minutes. Then another lady came to my left, but unknown to me, hadn’t seen buggy lady and thought I was the only one in the queue (buggy lady was slightly obscured by a jewellery stand). I thought lady to the left had just opted to stand there to wait her turn rather than come round the jewellery stands. We waited another 10 or so minutes then I was called forward and at the same time, another cashier came on so lady to the left went to go for it, thinking she was next. Buggy lady went mental!
I then realised lady to the left hadn’t seen her.
It brightened up a dull queue experience, that’s for sure!

Which you can't do, if the people seated on the rows in front of you are waiting to get off first

Of course I can. I couldn't care less if I am first or 10th to exit the plane, I need to get out fast. When everybody in front of me is efficient and fast, have their belonging ready and get on with it, it works perfectly well.

Clearly my time is more valuable because I don't have any to waste faffing around in a plane.

It's the same with escalators, feel free to take your time but get out of the way.

I am not asking you to facilitate, I am asking to get out of the way. How can you possibly think it's reasonable to wait until everyone else is ready to go to decide to gather your belongings, block the aisle and be a general nuisance?

It cannot come as such a massive shock that once the plane has landed, you will need to gather your belongings, have your passport ready et have to walk out of the plane?

I got absolutely bollocked for pushing in a queue to get into the supermarket during lockdown. Everyone was queuing the standard 2m apart, then there was a huge gap. Assuming it was the end of the queue I pootled into place, only to hear a (distant) shout from the end of the road "Oi! Don't push in!". It turned out the queue went round the corner but because this person had left so much space (think 30 feet) I had no chance of seeing that. The really annoying thing (other than her piss-poor queuing skills) was that after apologising and heading for the end of the queue I continued to attract her vitriolic mutterings.

For some reason, people pushing in while I'm waiting to get off the train gives me the rage. If there's already a queue to get off and you're still sitting in your seat, then wait! Or get up first, if you're in a rush! Although it annoys me I don't normally say something. But one time, as a woman nonchalantly pushed in front of me, I said "There's a queue, you know". She burst into tears and said she hadn't realised. She was so distraught that I had to tell her not to worry and it was fine. So I tend to try to let it go. How are you supposed to know whether they're a CF or there's something else going on?

If you are not in a rush, just sit down and let the rest of us go through.

I do. But thanks for the tip.

If you have a connecting flight, a connecting train or other, want to be ahead of the queue at passport control, it does pay off to rush off the plane.

Which you can't do, if the people seated on the rows in front of you are waiting to get off first (and are not sitting waiting until the scrum have moved off first. Most people usually don't).

Your time is not more valuable than everyone else's.

I did recently at a gig. Massive queues for the toilets. 2 young women behind me (early 20s-ish), one of them pipes up ‘let’s just go to the front’ so as they started to pass me I told them not to bother pushing in the queue. She just kept saying don’t speak to me like that’ but stayed behind me in the queue.

Depends. The plane isn't going to leave without me so I'd roll my eyes and leave it.

A queue for a limited number of tickets or something like where there is 30 minutes between turns or similar, id speak up.

Basically depends on the time factor and whether thee are limited things where you might miss something.

100% now I'm older and confident. Some teenage girls closed all the windows on a hot bus yesterday, saying "it's freezing!" while rolling their eyes. I went round and opened them all back up again saying "it's june FFS" and everyone saying thankyou to me. The girls were shocked someone stood up to them and didn't have anything to say.

I used to be worried about peoples reactions. I'm generally finding that these rude people don't expect others to confront them and just get a surprised/shamed look.

slightly different, but I happened to see my next door neighbour in a queue in the local M&S food shop recently. She was chatting to the lady in front of her and quoting 'Im a widow and 80 years young' tinkly laugh and off she goes to the front of the queue.

I'm rolling my eyes as I know that she trots off to Tennis twice a week, ventures on holiday 2/3 times a year on her own with massive suitcases which she manhandles herself into her car, mows her own lawns with a petrol mower, does her own DIY...😂hats off to her I guess!

Often I will. Depends if it’s affecting me enough to get me wound up. A flight though I wouldn’t because it’s not getting me there any quicker.

Little old lady blatantly pushed in front of me in M&S so I said 'do you mind?' or something. She then went into a spiel saying 'I wasn't pushing in you know' to which I countenanced yes you did etc. Next thing, the whole line are moaning at me as her little old lady act goes into overdrive and I am cast as the villain of the piece - gits!.

I wonder if it's a cultural thing?

I work in a place with a high population of African people and although there's quite clearly a queue for public transport, some people will swan to the front of the queue unashamedly. I usually tell them there's a queue because if I don't do it, someone a lot harsher and forthright might in the future.

I will say excuse me we are all queuing and there the end over there.

Actually I have just remembered I once facilitated a queue jump - but I don't think anyone minded. One Christmas Eve morning I was queueing to collect the turkey. We get it from a local fish and game shop. This shop is very popular and so loads of people were in the queue for their Christmas bird and special seafood orders. The queue stretched our of the shop and down the street.

I was in the street patiently waiting my turn when the old lady behind me started to look very distressed and said she didn't think she would be able to stand there much longer. Someone else said "Why don't you just go to the front, I am sure nobody will mind." However, this lady said she couldn't do that and she better just leave it. I felt sorry for her and said I would go down with her and explain if someone would hold my place in the queue. Anyway, as luck would have it when I got in to the shop with her the woman at the front of the queue was someone I knew vaguely and when I explained she was more than happy to let this lady cut in.

Nobody objected. Must have been the Christmas Spirit moving everyone to be charitable.

The last time it happened I said "Oh dear how embarrassing." The person looked at me and I said "I must have turned invisible again because I'm sure you wouldn't have pushed in front of me had you known I was standing here." The woman went bright red and left the shop.

I don't understand it either! We went to Switzerland a few years ago, boarding opened, one guy shot to the front with his hand luggage to get on the plane first. Why? It's not going to leave any earlier!
He did the same when we landed- the door was still closed on the plane- and couldn't get down the steps fast enough.
I did have a little smile to myself when we passed him through customs, with all the contents of hus luggage being examined by customs officers....

Depends. Entitled arse in bakery, sure. Wild-eyed addict shoving ahead to pick up methadone in pharmacy when I’m waiting for a prescription, nope.

Exactly. And really nasty if your name is Karen, as well.