The lady who jumped the que in sainsburys

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Ok guess it's a AIBU but to be fair I'm not annoyed I actually found it bloody funny!

So today me and dp popped to our local sainsburys, as we finished we made our way to the till DP in front and me waddling behind overdue in pregnancy!

DP got to check out and put trolley up against the belt I wasn't really far behind and a elderly lady walked straight in front of me, around DP and trolley and plonked her basket on belt in front of him! The cashier was open mouthed!!!

We just looked at each other and DP said in a cheery friendly way " you alright love to the lady" the lady turned around and said yes but I have a hearing aid and pointed to the sign that states the till has the loop thingy (just to clarify that over half the tills on our local shop have this so it is not a exclusive till or anything!

Well me and DP just looked at each other and totally cracked up laughing and just carried on behind her still giggling to each other until she paid for her shopping then we done ours!

The cashier was very apologetic and clarified that the till is for everyone but being a young girl don't think she had the confidence to say anything!

So just wondered if I AIBU to think this is cheeky and having a hearing aid doesn't give you priority to skip ques?

If she was really elderly it wouldn't bother me- maybe standing waiting was too much for her physically.

No not elderly, guess 60's very glam heels etc!

Like I say I'm not actually bothered just wondered if this was not just rude

I would have giggled as well.. its the brass neck.

I'll never forget this little old lady who pushed in once. I swear she floated at speed to the till. I thought I was seeing things.. never saw her legs move.

How rude! I get so cross at some elderly folk these days. I always hold open doors, give up my seat etc but so often these days I haven't even been acknowledged, let alone thanked. Many times my DC have been pushed out of the way, knocked over etc by old ladies just barging through. Makes my blood boil, especially as I was raised to respect my elders. Shame some of them don't deserve that respect

I'm imagining though that your particular old lady thought she was actually given priority because of her hearing aid, not realising that it is a feature of most checkouts, rather than a special one!

Me and dp acted very childish and giggled away like kids all the way home, in fact the sane lady cut us up on a roundabout coming out the store as she was in the wrong lane!!! We actually laughed even more

Speaking as someone approaching sixty I have a teeny tiny objection to the words 'old' and 'elderly' used in this thread. I am neither.

However, it is extremely rude to jump a queue - ask politely and accept it graciously if the person in front says No.

Ridiculous behaviour!

A man pushed in front of DD and I the other day. The woman behind me in the queue was really pissed off. I just loudly said, "I'm not going to make a big deal about his rudeness". He knew he'd done it; kept looking back at me. The annoying thing is that DD, who is 3, knows about queuing and doesn't understand why someone would push in.

Someone young did that to me when I was about 9.5 m pregnant with DS. I was actually already unpacking my basket. I made an arch remark that was utterly ignored. The cashier said nothing.

People who do this are just shitheads.

I've been queue jumped, and I've accidentally queue jumped (if there's a big gap between the line and a machine/self pay/atm, it's not always clear to me there's a line). At the end of the day she only inconvenienced you by a couple minutes. Not a big deal.

I think I'd laugh if an old lady cut me too. What else can you do about it? I don't think I'd be able to yell at someone that looked like my grandma.

I would have pull her up on it. I hate queue jumpers no matter what age they are.

My MIL is tricky & queue barges everywhere - she didn't live through the war to have to line up in Boots if she'd might miss her bus. Seriously. Funnily enough we don't see that much of her & neither do her daughters.

YABU for using the term elderly for a glam 60 year old.

But she was very rude, I would have said something personally, but I think your reaction was better.

One older lady pushed in front of me in the taxi cue outside asda you use freefone phone a taxi n the store and go outside to wait she told me the taxi was hers as she had been waiting in the store not a clue if she had or not but I was too gobsmacked to challenge her!

YABU for calling someone in their sixties elderly. But yore not for thinking it rude, and funny, that she pushed in.

You're

+1 for 60s is not old! (And I'm nowhere near that yet)

Does sound funny though

She's probably the sister of the old bag who tutted, complained and accused me of bad parenting on the bus today. It ended in a blazing row me getting off the bus in tears and her sitting there glaring! The bus driver was wonderful, dropped me at the school, helped with the pushchair and didn't make me feel a hormonal nuisance. Personally hope she trips on her sodding bus pass!

I'm not trying to make excuses or be ageist at all but I spend a lot of time caring for my elderly mil. She is both quite deaf and has dementia so is quite disconnected from what is going on a lot of the time. She often does strange things that appear rude but has no idea she has upset people. I am forever apologising in her wake! Otoh, some people of any age can be rude!!

I am only months away from being elderly. Will they take all my faculties away?

Queue.

I was in a shop last christmas which has two opposite tills and you form two queues, one either side. This elderly lady (and I mean 80-90) sauntered down the middle and plonked her stuff at a till, past about 20 of us waiting! It’s the pure confidence and just not giving a shit that made me laugh. I thought good for her tbh, no one enjoys Christmas queueing!

I laughed with glee when my DD turned to me and declared 'didn't his mummy teach him to wait his turn?' When a suited and booted 40/50 year old guy did that to us. He got so cross about her manners/ he was in a hurry/ he actually works don't 'cha know. It all went a bit quiet. Cashier was blushing.
'Does he work with you mummy?'
I could have kissed her.
I waved on the cashier and wandered to the till beside us.
Some people are very self absorbed.

I was shopping once and had my stuff on the conveyor belt. A very eccentric looking older man started to move my stuff and put his in front! I was about to say something when he said in a very cheery voice 'hope you don't mind, just putting my stuff in front of yours!' I was so open mouthed, I said it was fine. I actually had a chat with him and he was actually a very nice man, just a little eccentric I think! Sometimes you have to let it go!

I don't really get all this making comments about people but not to them business.

I mean, I DO – it's quite British –but it's pointless. Why not either say clearly to someone 'I'm next in the queue' or suck it up?

But in the OP's example, I probably would have just found it funny too. And she wasn't 'elderly'!