Falsely accused of queue jumping

[HyacinthsHydrangeas]

A number of people in front of me to collect prescriptions today. Three year-old DS and I took our spot in the queue, which was not very orderly (the arrangement of the shop makes it difficult to form a clear single line if more than two people are waiting). Watched four or five people arrive after me.

When I was about to be next in line, a woman accused me of jumping the queue! She said "There's actually a long line here. I'm not sure where you came from, but we've been waiting a long time." I said "I'm not certain if I was before or after you, but I know I watched the person right behind you walk in!" She then made a HUGE show of being "gracious" enough to "let" me go first (this included asking everyone behind her in line if they minded if I went first).

I know it's unreasonable but I was SO mad!!! I recognize that it is mainly the fault of the shop for not creating a clear place to wait, but the fact that she came off looking like she was doing me a favor really grinds my gears.

Please tell me your stories of false accusation to help fuel my righteous indignation.

Pretent to be hard of hearing when people like this speak to you. They soon give up.

The one about aldi - in my aldi the people who are second in line have usually unloaded their stuff already but people further back still have their baskets/trolleys.
We were waiting behind a line on the floor. We weren't allowed to unload until the previous customer had paid. This was in March.

I once had a summer job in a cafe. I took the order of a mum and her daughter. The mum ordered a "mocha". I assumed this to be a mocha coffee, as I hadn't noticed the hot chocolate and coffee "mokka" on the menu.

When I brought the food, after having served the drinks, the daughter was nudging her mum and said "say something". The mum shook her head and said no. I asked if everything was OK and if there was a problem. The mum again said no. I then went on my break. When I returned I got a bollocking from the manager because I'd served them the wrong thing and they'd complained.

Obviously I accept that was my fault for not realising there were 2 items on the menu with the same name, and I would have been happy to remedy it, if I'd been given the opportunity.

Another time I had a one off job serving champagne at a posh furniture shop's event. At the end of the evening there were lots of bottles of champagne left and the cellist from the string quartet put one in his case. At the next event a few months later the owner made a point of telling us they knew how many bottles there were, as someone in the serving staff had stolen one last time. Obviously the members of the string quartet were beyond reproach.

We where in Aldi one Friday afternoon and finished our shopping so went to queue up

Next to the till we joined,is the bread and I had noticed an older couple standing there,but much further back from where we joined the queue

My dp is unloading the shopping and I’m standing there in a world of my own when I heard an older male voice hissing down my ear

I turned round to see the older gent standing behind me,hissing threats and had raised his arm like he was going to hit me (not my dp who was at least a foot taller than this bloke)

Long story short,they thought they’d joined the end of the queue but where actually standing about 3 metres from where it ended and they thought we’d queue jumped

My partner did say sorry and offered to move across (he’s much more polite than I am) but the bloke was really nasty and said he’d move to a till with a much shorter queue and him and his ‘lovely’ wife kept shouting insults at us and giving us dirty looks

Joke was on them-a member of staff-who’d seen him go to hit me on the back of my head-banned them from the shop as they can’t go round doing that over what was a genuine mistake-if they’d just come over and asked nicely we would have let them in first

Dickhead-it still pisses me off

@SkyLarkDescending

At an outdoor market/food stall place last week we had been moved a couple of times by waiting staff as they weren't sure which tables were allocated for us. Friends and I had eaten our food and were enjoying a drink, chatting away.

Along comes a big guy, clearly a fair few drinks in and starts shouting at us to get out of his seats. Friends and I look confused, start explaining politely we've been moved their by staff and perhaps he should check with them. Loud guy adamant that we need to effin move right naaaaaw. His gf starts on at us too, then his mate.

At this point we were trying to catch the attention of a bouncer when a staff member comes over and simply says 'wasn't this your table here sir?' Yes he was sitting on the next table over. He skulked off without a word

A similar thing happened to us at a hotel a few years ago.

We had just been seated, it was a buffet style breakfast where everything was put out and the hot food cooked, but you went and served yourself, and we'd collected teas, coffees, and orange juice but hadn't gone back for food.

A woman came over and announced loudly "well you can keep the table but I'd like my coffee back if you don't mind" and my DH, who she was shouting at, just said "What?" and she said "My coffee. I'll find another table but I want my drink back." She was trying to take the cup out his hand when a voice from the next table said "Um...we're over here." She went very red and walked away again, and my husband got to keep his coffee

God knows what she thought we'd done with her family when we 'stole' their table, or why we'd want to be drinking her secondhand coffee from a used mug, but her priority was clearly the coffee so I think she just perhaps isn't a morning person

I had exactly the same thing. In a queue at a theme park. Had literally been stood there for 25 mins when person behind accused me of pushing in.
Luckily the people behind them said "I ve been staring at you both for 25 mins."

😅 being falsely accused of things is very annoying. A couple of years ago at my kids school I applied for a job, I did ONE DAY and then a parent of my DD's friend went marching into school to say she'd been let know by a staff member her kid is always being left out and is made to sit on her own, she told me afterwards and it was another member of staff doing the same job as me that told her but because our children were friends at school and I had only just started it looked like me, the headteacher went round asking a few staff members that told me why I thought it was acceptable to gossip about school 😅😅😅 it wasn't me and I felt like I was being gossiped about myself because she didn't ask me directly.

Not a queue jumping one but queue related.

We were at a theme park at the water flume ride. We'd already done it a few times but before we moved on I wanted to go on again but no one else did so I queued alone while dh and dc watched.

It's one of those where the log comes along and you just hop in. I'd done it a million times. The queue operator was a bit distracted when the flume came along so I just got in. As it started going up the slope the operator shouted at me 'oi, you're supposed to wait until I tell you to get in!' I was mortified. The flume goes around twice so I faced his wrath when I went around again and then when I got off. Dh and the DC were pissing themselves laughing 'mum got told off!' and the whole of the massive queue witnessed my humiliation.

Any time theme parks or log flumes are mentioned I get 'Do you remember that time mum got told off!' and the story gets told again. It was about 15 years ago and I haven't got over the embarrassment.