Get in the damn queue!

I also hate the people in busy shopping centres who just stop dead in front of you and you have no way of getting past them because there’s people coming the other way!
Or those who get in front of you in a busy shopping centre and walk in a line of about 3 or 4 and just slowly saunter along blocking anyone from getting past them!

@GrandHighPoohbah we're in Hackney and there would be actual riots if they did, but I can dream. I'm literally sitting have a nice glass of wine, trying to get over a rough day in peace, and I can see three just left in stupid places. It's even worse on Sunday mornings when everyone cycled home at 3am. ARGH.

Separate point, I adore my country-abiding DM but when she comes to visit and we get the tube I now grab her hand and essentially drag her along when we get off. She's the kind of step out of the carriage and then ponder for 30 seconds, even when I tell her to just follow me.

Probably the same people who linger by a zebra crossing, so you're not quite sure if they're intending to cross or not.

People.

All of them. 🤣

I am hoping more boroughs will ban them soon.

Just reading this made me rage

We're incredibly lucky to live on a perimeter road of one of London's beautiful parks, so people cycle to the park and then leave them on my street to walk around the park. The amount of times I've opened my front door to find four or five line bikes just piled at the bottom of my stairs. I report every.single.one

I lost my shit with two grown adults in the middle of abandoning them the other day. I'm able bodied and I don't need a pram (for a baby, or myself) but I can't imagine how annoying it must be for those who aren't/do.

Why do some couples both have to stand in the queue? Is the husband like security detail for his wife, in case someone decides to steal her shopping?
It makes the queue twice as long and in God's name does he have to jangle the coins in his trouser pockets whilst standing there?

It's always older couples as well ( I am not being ageist, I am as old as dust myself,) but I am quite capable of shopping by myself without an escort!

With things like bus queues, I have no hesitation in moving in front of these people, particularly if it means I can get in the bus shelter and/or sit down. I'm still perfectly happy for them to get on the bus ahead of me. To be fair, I don't think I've ever come across anyone who objected to me doing that.

My mum used to say to people not queueing properly "Queueing is a physical activity, are you in the queue?"

And at the bottom of the escalator!!! "Hmmm, should I go right? Should I go left? Or should I stand there like an idiot while people are coming off a rolling staircase right into my back?"

Yes theses folks are the most annoying!
Guess what? The cashier still won't serve you until the person ahead is finished!
Just wait. If you are in a hurry perhaps leave more time in the future. ⏱

The parents on the school run who don't seem to have anywhere to be after they've dropped their child off...the ones who walk out the school and up the pavement in groups of at least four, chatting away while moving at the pace of a snail. All the time I'm thinking 'get out the fucking way I've got to be at work at 9!!'

Omg this. Or those who stand in the aisle and block it while they put their bags/ coats and god knows what else in the rack above so that nobody behind them can get to a seat then everyone who has poured onto the train through the doors at the other end of the same carriage have all managed to board the train from the doors at the other side and get a seat so now all the seats are taken and I now have to stand up despite probably being one of the first people to board the train (behind the twat that blocked me) So infuriating!

Just get in your damn seat and then put your luggage in the racks above when everyone else has got on the bastard train and found a seat!!!

You're either overthinking this, or I'm just rude 😂
For me, either you're in the queue or you're not. If you are standing 2 meters away.from the queue then you're not in the queue.

I only ask when I'm not sure if there is a queue/where the queue is.

Most people get on my tits. It's why I'm a hermit.

Happened earlier today in a shopping centre toilet. I followed a group of three people out who stopped in the toilet doorway and had a discussion about which shop they were going to next. They looked surprised when I said "excuse me" as I wanted to be past.

Hahaha when I read this, in my head I read it as if there was a comma after the word wee 😃😃

initially I was wondering how often you see people seeing in shop doorways 🫣🫣

The lay out of Costa annoys me. Having the food in the fridges in the queue. So you have a family of 5 deciding whether to have food and then what to get. Then it’s just you who just wants a standard coffee. And you don’t know whether to go ahead of them because they’re sort of in the queue sort of not. Most people let you go in front but it’s the oblivious ones. In which case they probably wouldn’t notice me going ahead. But it’s the ethical politeness of it.

I had a rum (and rude!) woman in front of me at the supermarket a few years ago. She emptied her trolley onto the conveyor belt. She only had six or eight items but no problem if she wants to use a trolley.

However, having emptied her trolley onto the conveyor belt, she stuck her empty trolley out behind her with her arm outstretched. I assumed she was pre-occupied and just hadn’t noticed me behind her, so I nicely asked if she could move her trolley so I could get to the belt to begin to offload my shop. But instead of the “Oh, yes, sorry - I was daydreaming” apology I was expecting, she very firmly said No 😮

I was really confused and explained I just wanted to begin to put my shopping on the belt like normal, but couldn’t reach it with her trolley held out behind her like that. She then told me I wasnt allowed to put my shopping on the conveyor belt until hers had all been scanned and she’d paid for it! was momentarily lost for words! Then, I told her how she ought to learn how supermarkets work. I also pointed out that she had happily put her shopping on the belt behind the customer’s in front of her before theirs had all been scanned and paid for! Bloody hypocrite!

Some people are just weird and rude.

All the time op. I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. I stood behind a man in a long queue in a shop a few weeks ago, a woman was stood away from the queue for about 10 minutes and as the queue started to go down she started edging her way in front of my so I started moving closer to the man I’d been stood behind because I thought she was pushing in. She then said to me “sorry I was in front of you”. It then almost became an argument because I’d been stood behind the man the whole time since I’d arrived. I’d clocked the woman stood opposite me but she wasn’t actually in the queue. It turned out she was also in the queue and had been waiting before me behind the same man but she had decided to stand away from the queue to watch for her friend coming out of the changing room!!
If you’re in a queue then stay in the damn fucking queue not 3 metres away from it!!

I had some Vietnamese (relevant) friends who would change shoes at the point of going out into the garden or back into the house. They'd just stop dead & slip off their indoor slippers & slip on their outdoor pods in one swift movement, while I inevitably cannoned into the back of them. No matter how many times it happened, I always forgot they were about to do it. My fault entirely.

But people who walk into a shop & immediately stop in the doorway to look around them? Hanging's too good etc.😂

They do it on trains as well. They get on, block the aisle, and stand there while deciding which seat they want.

They totally block the people behind from getting on and sitting down, and people that came in the other door and file in and quickly all take a seat.

the ditherer will then sit down in the only sets left, leaving everybody who was stuck behind them without a seat.

Then, when you say ‘Excuse me’, so you can try to get to the item you want, they glare at you, as if you have no right to be in the same space as them. If people would put their trolley at the end of an aisle or somewhere unobtrusive, it would be easier for everyone.

If we are talking about queues the one that drives me mad is when theres 1 till on etc... and a huge queue forms. You get in line and have been stood in it for 20 minutes and your next behind the twat in front buying a lifetime supply of food and/or returning 1 tomato without a receipt to the trainee kid.

Suddenly a new cashier appears to finally opens the next till and they say 'next' and within a millisecond before the cashier has reached the till usually some utter fuckwit from the back of the queue (or sometimes not even in the queue but someone who was just walking that way) has bowling balled down like a lightning bolt to grab the first spot.

Mate, she said 'next' as in the 'next in the long line that have been waiting patiently for a staff member to come' not any cheeky fucker who feels like Linford Christie and thinks they don't have to wait like everyone else has.

Where I am if you don’t wait for the gates to close before presenting your ticket it often causes the barrier to malfunction altogether.