I stood behind a woman in the queue in H&M today for 20 minutes. When she got to the counter she wanted to exchange something. The lady serving asked for her receipt. Cue 10 minutes of searching all her carrier bags, her handbag, her pockets, her purse, through 100 other receipts that were in her purse, the floor before she finally located it. The queue got longer and longer and longer.
I also find this at the airport when people wait until it's their turn to put their stuff in the little tray thing to take off their belt/shoes, take out their laptop/liquds. Why not do it while you're waiting, so you can just put it in when you get there?
AIBU to think that you should have your receipt/card/cash/shoes/liquids or whatever to hand if you've been waiting to be served for 20 minutes?
AIBU?
to get annoyed with people who are not ready when it's their turn?
HolyAutumnGoldBatman · 06/10/2012 19:29
"I almost shat my spleen out"
bupcakes I just spat on my screen with laughter at that.
So please do explain to me how I do that in the queue, Batman. I really would like to know how one human woman holds a wriggling baby, pushes a pram, herds three other under 6's, holds her own and most of their hand luggage and takes belt and shoes off and liquids out and laptop out, all while moving in a queue.
Seriously, you tell me how and I will gladly do it so as not to add 15 seconds or so to your wait. 
at the conveyor bit. Which is what I said I did already. But you told me several times to do it all in the queue
Way to backpedal.
Ok, you have one plastic bag with liquids in the outiside pocket of your handluggage.
You have everything else in the bag instead of in random pockets.
Or have it in pockets and take off your sodding jacket and put it through the conveyor (that works for children's random shite).
Just don't faff. I hate faffing. If there are 200 people in a queue, and everyone faffs for 2 minutes, that's a calculates madly awful long time 
GoSak, if it's needing to put things down that's the issue, can you not use the pram as a handy mobile table? Or the children... if you've got an extra eight pair of hands around, might as well use them. (Not being entirely serious there, before anyone froths at me!)
For the record, I am exceedingly impatient and often have to take deep breaths to avoid mortally wounding my fellow shoppers/travellers/pavement-walkers....
If you're not blocking the queue, then it's good enough for me!
Reading your posts I think it might be you that needs to calm down though!
You'd have all hated me last week. M&S Simply Food on a Saturday afternoon, I was the one buying 40 gift cards each with £20 on them. No customer service desk so no choice but to go through the normal checkouts.
Woman behind me huffed and puffed and several times said "If I'd realised this I would have gone to another till". The cards were clearly on the belt, I didn't hide the things under a newspaper or whip them out at the last minute (Tadaaaaa... Look what I have here! ). Should I have explained my purchase to every customer in the queue just in case their trolley of shopping was more urgent than my purchase?
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Ah, but Brian, hotel toasters are only there for Toast Roulette. Do you stick with your pale-and-slightly-warm bread that's been through once or do you risk a second run knowing that it'll almost certainly be cremated. That's the gamble.
I actually vote with PP that the most annoying scenario is at the train ticket office. How can you get to the front of the queue and not have the faintest idea when you want to travel 
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