Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

I think it depends on the context and what mood I am in. If it's something like coffee and they only want one, I don't care. If I've been waiting in a queue for something like the post office or pharmacy I absolutely do care.

Not exactly queue jumping but the other week I was in our local post office which is at the back of a mini-supermarket. I went down one aisle but was beaten to the queue by someone who must have realised I was there and run down his aisle to beat me to it. He and his daughter were doing something time consuming which involved passports etc whereas I only wanted to buy stamps to send cards overseas (there's no self serve machine). They took about 10 minutes, I took about 1 and left the post office just behind them. I did feel like asking if they felt smug that they'd beaten me to it, but didn't.

I once told someone to go to the back of the queue at an ATM when he tried to push in front of me and was told I was aggressive. Another example of women not being allowed to have opinions!

I’m so glad he didn’t get away with it, what a twat 😆 feel a bit sorry for the kind lady though, he really put her on the spot!

I don't often pipe up but the other day I was in the supermarket with my young daughter hanging off my arm, just had a small trolley, not loads of shopping, and as I was walking for my turn at the checkout a dickhead man just walked right up with a few things in his hands and said "Can I go ahead of you I've just got a few things" . Had he actually waited for my response before acting I probably would have let him go ahead, but he just walked up to the cashier as he was talking, before I had even responded and I saw red and snapped "What was the bloody point of you even asking me if you're just going to push in anyway - no you can't, I've been waiting". He stopped in his tracks and said sorry, and ran off to the self service tills. I felt like I needed my daughter to see that we can't just be walked over by men.

Without fail.

Oh that's interesting because the example I thought of happened in Poundland and it was someone else who called out the pusher in before I had chance to.

Basically very long queue one lunchtime and a man went up to the elderly lady who was next to be served and asked if she minded him going in front of her because he was in a hurry. The old lady said "of course you can dear" and prepared to let him in.

However, another woman in the queue said "well I mind, why shouldn't you wait like the rest of us", to which I and several others murmured our agreement.

The man then tried to argue his case by saying he was in a hurry because he had left his car on a double yellow line! "Should have paid to park like everyone else then" was the obvious counter. In the end he left the shop with a big huff. Everyone in the queue nodded with satisfaction, apart from the old lady who was still looking bewildered and saying "but I didn't mind him going in front of me." Clearly she didn't get that he wasn't just pushing in front of her he was pushing in front of everyone.

Equally, it's not my problem if you are in a rush and while I wouldn't actively stand in the way neither do I have to facilitate your haste.

Getting space for a cabin bag above their seat if they haven't paid for speedy boarding, I would guess.

If it is obvious someone is pushing in I call it out.

My pet hate is in pubs, especially when the bar person turns around and says 'who's next' and the arse at the back shouts 'me'. When I was pulling pints back in the day we were always taught to make a mental note of who was in the queue and stick to it.

The pub queue jumpers came in two forms, the tall man who thinks leaning over from the back waving a folded £20 note somehow entitles him to be served next. The second being the woman who thinks that by being attractive she can skip tedious things like queues. I have seen more then a few women literally say 'ladies first' as they try and worm their way to the front. I was always very good at making queue jumpers wait their turn as they huff and puff over their perceived importance.

I never understand why people queue to board the plane. If people pushing in bothers you just stay sat until the queue is gone. By that point everyone has a seat and you can just arrive as it's about to take off

No, the hassle isn’t worth it. If someone is prepared to push in, they’re probably prepared to gob off and might even be prepared to push you or whatever. Not worth it IMO.

It’s become worse now because people don’t want to pay to put their luggage in the hold so space in the overhead lockers is always at a premium.

I remember getting called out for queue jumping at a cafe with soft play in a garden centre.

I thought the group of children stood next to the lady being served (not behind her) were with her rather than queuing. The server also turned to me and asked for my order after he'd finished serving her, so I think he thought the same.

I only realised what had happened when I noticed the other lady had left but the boys hadn't, by which point the server had moved away and was making my coffee. I then turned and realised a table full of women (where the boys were from) were loudly and passive aggressively talking about how awful I was while staring at me.

I paid for my drink, apologised to the boys and the women and explained I hadn't realised, but the women wouldn't accept it so in the end I told them to shut up, they were pathetic, how dare they talk about me thinking I'd be too scared to say anything etc.

One of them then came over to me at my table later on to shame me some more "and you've got a newborn baby too, that's awful" so I said "fuck off bitch" or something because I'd had enough of being shamed over a mistake that I'd felt bad and apologised for already, and now she was trying to call me a shit mum.

Sometimes people queue ambiguously and mistakes get made.

Slightly different but I've been stuck in a queue with a learning disabled young person naking noises and really struggling to wait and people look and tut and do nothing.

Perhaps if someone is genuinely struggling to wait offer them a queue jump. I've done that and the relief on the carers face us priceless

I don’t understand the “I’m so cool” posters who trumpet that it would never bother them as the queue jumper may have an issue .

Apart from a few genuine mistakes, most people are fully aware that they are pushing in. Would these “non Karens” stand by benignly as a load of people sneaked past them at a theme park? They’d look right chumps as the line got longer and longer with them saying “Doesn’t bother me.”

dancinfeet · Yesterday 14:24

I had an elderly lady ask me if I minded if she could go in front of me in the queue at the supermarket, she was only carrying a couple of items so I said yes. As soon as I let her in front she turned and called her husband over with trolley piled high which they then started to unload into the conveyer at a snails pace.

I would definitely have told her that she was taking the piss and that I thought she only had a few bits.

Well it is. Why should you push in front of a queue when everyone has been waiting longer than you? This Karen thing is just a way for CF to attempt to asset their CFness.

I had 3 women try and push Infront of us in a queue in a theme park to get to their friends. I told them they couldnt come past us and if they needed to be with their friends, the friends should come to the back to them. One tried to jump over the fence to skip the queue and was fortunately seen by someone who works there, and the 3 of them were escorted from the queue.

We go to our local theme park a lot as we have passes, drives me mad the amount of people who try and queue jump. Unfortunately, queuing is part and parcel of rides and if you have a condition that means you cannot queue, there is ride access pass. No excuse for rude and entitled pushing past people

Queueing for buses is generally fully pointless. How do you queue at a bus stop with 4 different buses going to different places? What are your achieving exactly other than extreme Englishness?

Worked at a bank branch 20 years ago. Monday mornings was the only time where the queue to be served by a cashier, was outside. There was a pillar between the advisor rooms and the cashier booths. I was usually sitting in the first booth. Could see the queue before we served them.

A few regulars used to hover behind the pillar and when the customer I was serving left, they jumped in. Both customers and cashiers pointed the queue was outside. "ooh its raining" "ooh its cold" were the excuses. "Everyone else has queued up outside" was my usual response.

I'm in Germany. Works fine without a queue for buses etc. No advantage to getting on first.

I work at Waitrose and have perfected my polite “The end of the queue is over there” with a smile. It’s generally the same people that try it. One lady tried to tell me that if I didn’t let her go first she would miss her gym class. I just carried on serving people in the queue!

Don’t go to Euro Disney - queue pushing is an actual sport there. Imagine watching adult after adult push past thousands of small kids who are queuing up.

I tend to say something like, "hi. There's a queue." That way if it's actually an accident it's fine, if they're reasonable but a bit cheeky they can pretend they didn't know, and it's not too confrontational if they're a dickhead.

I challenge all the time. My young DD now very loudly states "they've just queue jumped" and points at the offenders 😂

I tend to find that people who do have a reason will ask politely and those who don't are just chancers. There are times when I don't care and will let it go. And there are times – like when I was next to be served by an impressively slow bar team in an airport pub and someone tried to skip the entire queue – where I'll say something. Not the kind of thing where a blanket rule applies, I don't think.