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Rant about queue jumper

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Booboostwo · 02/11/2018 21:55

This is just a rant so I can vent. And a long one, you have been warned.

I had to take both DCs shopping today as it is half term and DH is working abroad. DD7 uses a wheelchair and she had to push herself around as I couldn’t steer the loaded trolley and push the wheelchair. The supermarket was heaving, I don’t know why, but it was really full of people and it was challenging to get round with DD following and trying not to lose DS4.

We finally made it to the tills where there were massive queues. It is usual to have to wait 15 minutes at the till but today the wait was double. So we parked ourselves at the end of a queue and waited.

In front of us was a woman who was at one point joined by a man. The man saw us very clearly when he arrived but joined the woman and chatted to her so I assumed they were together. However when they unloaded their shopping it was separate so I very politely asked if they were together and they were not. So I pointed out to the man that he had jumped the queue.

First he said he had not, that he had been there before us, but I insisted and the woman also backed me up. There was absolutely no way he hadn’t seen us when he arrived he made eye contact and squeezed in in front of us.

Then he said that he only had a few items and I had a lot, so I replied that had he asked to go in front of me I may have let him, but it was no excuse for pushing in front of us.

And finally he had the nerve to tell me he was disabled all the while looking at my DD waiting patiently in her wheelchair! He was such an arsehole another customer from another queue came over and commiserated with me.

Disclaimed: if anyone ever asks me in a queue to go in front of me because they are unable to stand of course I am happy to help them out. This was not the case here.

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SnuggyBuggy · 03/11/2018 07:45

He sounds a right twat

RedBlu · 03/11/2018 08:02

He sounds a twat.

I have found now we are getting nearer to Christmas and the shops are getting busy, the queue jumpers are out in force.

I was in M&S the other day during my lunch break, if was absolutely heaving for some reason.

I was waiting in the queue for a good ten minutes when an older lady went and stood the other side of the queue barrier opposite me (I was next in line), like starting a queue all of her own but I thought maybe she was just waiting for someone.

Nope, when it was my turn she side steps out in front of me and goes to the till. I did ask her what she was playing at but she claimed she was in front of me?! I couldn't be arsed to argue but seriously......

Thing is when you call people out they seem to either ignore you or claim they were in front (like they have some mystical power to evaporate and reappear on command)

Squarepeg29 · 03/11/2018 08:22

I would have challenged the lady as soon as she took up that potentially attacking position. Something along the lines of “are you looking for the queue - it’s behind me” with a big smile.

With regard to OP, you’d done what you could while battle was raging. I’d follow it up with email to store asking for their policy in these situations - cashier should have called security to boot his sorry arse out of the door.

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Booboostwo · 03/11/2018 08:36

I should have said I am in France, there is less regard for queues to begin with but still this guy takes the biscuit.

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hmmwhatatodo · 03/11/2018 08:49

It’s happened to me before, stood patiently waiting in the queue (exception was the only one in the queue!) and a man just rushed ahead and went to the till as soon as someone finished paying before waiting for the ‘next customer’ announcement. When I pointed out that I was actually in the queue he gave me a mouthful and the till assistant apologised to him and gave me an irritated look which wound me up even more!

MyNameIsNotSteven · 03/11/2018 08:58

Sounds like you stood your ground brilliantly OP. Did he give in?

I have a CF one too. A few weeks ago I was trying to park at Tesco express but the car park is so tiny that I had to squeeze round into a parking space to let another car out and then straighten up after. There are 5 spaces with two at right angles to the rest. As I was straightening up, a car in one of the right-angles spaces started to reverse out so I had to wait again, but then some twat in a 4x4 came along, parked right behind all 5 spaces but not in any of them and immediately in front of the shop doors, blocking the other car entirely - then went into the shop! All I could do was squeeze back out of the car park. I was Shock at the rudeness!

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Booboostwo · 03/11/2018 12:09

He did not give in. I remained polite and kept pointing out his lies, but it was obvious from the start he was not going to do anything about his rudeness. He wasn’t in the least ashamed.

The world seems to be full of entitled individuals at the moment.

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JustMarriedAndLovingIt · 03/11/2018 16:05

Hate queue jumpers. I was in Aldi the other day. Had already waited maybe 10 mins behind two other shoppers with lots of shopping. It was finally my turn and this guy with one item just leapt in and said to DH ‘you don’t mind do you, it’s just this’ I loudly said that actually I did mind but by that time the woman had already scanned it. I just felt really miffed that we had waited patiently and he felt it was his right to go ahead.

Fluffyears · 03/11/2018 16:48

An elderly woman in B&M was praticakkyninsode DH’s trousers with gin in her effort to squeeze in. Blocked the silly mare with a trolley!

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