Do you always find yourself in the slow queue?

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I ALWAYS do. Why???? What is it about me that makes me pick the queue with the slowest, most incompetent people. Waiting at busy fuel station and it’s like the person in front is filling up for the first time ever. She is in her 50s so I doubt very much it is. It’s more the fact that I always end up in these queues and it’s so frustrating. Especially with two kids in the car.

I always end up behind the arsehat in the express cue that pays by card and then buggers off to buy stuff in the shop.

Often I take a guess and usually end up wrong.

This is why I love self service checkouts!

I know... I always seem to pick the one with someone wanting a chat / sodding around with precision packing but couldn't be arsed to order it on the belt / can't find their cards, change.

Or I just start putting my stuff on belt when "opening check out 3" rings out.

I try not to take forever at fuel station but I fill up from basically empty and dislike the pay at pump ( I want sweets). I also want to reset my mileage and mpg when I get in the car... I don't spend ages faffing but considering half seem to drive off while wrestling with their seatbelt I do look a little slower...

I'm always behind the person who takes an age to use a cash machine or am stood in a toilet queue where everyone takes far far longer than I end up doing (yes I know hidden disabilities, medical devices, periods, complicated clothing etc etc but that doesn't explain why everyone seems to take so long).

@BarbaraofSeville

In busy public toilets (especially in airports) I notice this and make it my mission to get in and out as quickly as possible, as if to show how it should be done. Yeah. That'll learn them

I'm in the slow queue of life, I think.

I was behind someone agonisingly slow the other day and then the same thing that always happens happened. I’d already waited 10 minutes plus at least another 5 for the slow coach with one person serving. The second it’s my turn another member of staff turns up! WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU BEFORE!!!

Yes!! Me!!! And not just in supermarket or filling station queues! Anytime there is a slowdown on a road with more than 1 lane to choose, I always manage to be in the queue of traffic that moves most slowly. Its infuriating!!

I have found my people!!!!

DH and I are like magnets for the wrong queue :)
SuperMeerkat - I was going through passport control recently and I stood behind the line, had my feet correctly placed where indicated etc. etc. and as I walked towards the passport check person, she pulled down a screen and closed up shop! Luckily someone in another queue let me in, otherwise I would have had to go to the back of a very long queue.

Blobby10

Yes, I am always in the wrong traffic queue too!

I studied the maths of queuing at university at one point. Can't remember why or what the answer was.

But. Mainly you notice the times you are in a rush and you are in a slow queue because it is frustrating. you don't notice all the times you are in a fast queue or when you aren't in a rush. So your remembered collective experience isn't actually representative of your real experience.

Sod’s law! No matter what queue I go in it’s always the slowest one, even if I move to one that I think will be quicker, it never is.

Doesn't matter which queue I choose,I ALWAYS seem to be behind someone who decides to pay in small change for something costing a fiver. Or someone who doesn't realise that they need their purse/wallet to pay,and end up spending 5 minutes hunting through their vast handbag or every single pocket they possess.

While we're on the subject of queues,can I ask whether the following scenario ever happens to anyone else? You're standing in a long,slow moving queue,and a member of staff comes along to open another checkout. He/she calls out to come over,but before you can get a chance to react,everyone BEHIND you in the current queue charges over! You don't bother moving over as you would now be relegated to the end of the queue. This has happened to me countless times,but because I'm disabled and cannot move very quickly,I always get pushed to the back. Makes me so mad!

I’m the one who waits in the queue at the cash point, whilst the person in front faffs with their card, keys in the number, does a transaction, looks at the slip, starts another transaction, same thing and so on and so on.

Or they give up with one card and try another...............

I always feel sorry for the people behind me at the bank;
because if I'm in the bank then 95% of the time I'm paying in bags of coins from the PTA...