AIBU for getting annoyed when people ask “are you in the q”

[Manchestermanchester]

I’m in the chip shop and I’ve ordered. I’m on my phone and literally in the corner, away from the cashier and my eyes are on my phone.

Why do people continue to ask “are you being served love”. I have made it as obvious as possible I’m not waiting to be served.

Normally the person at the till says “what can I get you”. At that point it the person on their phone doesn’t respond I would jump in.

Chip shops can be weird, though. Last time I went into an unfamiliar chippy, it took me a good few minutes to realise that most of the people inside weren't in a queue as such, but waiting to collect their orders. It was very very busy, so that was not immediately apparent due to the layout of the shop. I then, having twigged that I wasn't actually in the queue to order, had to try to ascertain who was. I daresay a lot of them thought it was bleedin obvious, too.
They were exceptionally good chips, though, and worth waiting for.

Some people doodle about like lemons, leaving a good five feet between them and the end of the queue because they’re engrossed in their phone and then savage anyone who innocently steps in front of them 🤷🏻‍♀️

Gosh there's a lot of miseries on mumsnet this afternoon. Did they say hiya as well?

Would you rather they ignore you and said hiya while they're at it. Some miserable fuckers on here today

OP's eating her chips now - she won't be back!

They just don't want to be rude and cut in line.

I secretly love it when people can see a clear obvious queue and still ask "are you all waiting to be served?" and when everyone says yes, the person is quite bothered about it and spends time looking around, trying to think of a way to get around waiting their turn, before eventually joining the back of the queue, looking annoyed 😁

I want chips now. Thanks!

How grumpy are you? It's a perfectly civil question to ask.

I want some chips.

Lol a lot of grumpy people seemed to have jumped on the thread calling me the grumpy one.

Ummm no you're def the grumpy one

There's so much weird queuing behaviour happening at the moment. There's a thing in my post office at the moment where people stand beside you instead of behind you in the queue, like they're sidling up to queue jump the minute the queue moves. Makes the whole experience even less enjoyable than it already is.

YABU, they are only being polite

Good grief. Of course YABU. Next time maybe wait outside the shop. They have many customers through the day and sometimes they probably forget who they have served or who they haven’t. And your angry about that?! Jesus wept.

A good example of this is when I go in Gregg's and buy a sandwich that I want heated up. I move right over to the side,away from the part of the counter where the tills are,yet I still get people hanging back and saying 'After you'. Yet if I WAS in the queue,you can bet your life someone would be elbowing their way in front of me!

And on the flip side you’d get a person on here who claimed to have moved one centimetre to the side for 30 seconds to check a Very Important thing on their phone and then moan and ask: “AIBU that three people pushed in front of me and didn’t even bother to check if I was in the queue or not”?

Well you can’t moan if anyone pushes in then

Fuck sakes.

This irritates me too, but I am a highly irritable person to be fair.

You may be failing to show proper queue behaviour: alert but slightly bored as already waiting on an order.

The phone is altering these time honoured interpersonal signals.

36degrees Oh yes someone stood beside me while I was buying a train ticket. What's that all about?

YABU

They have manners.

Chippies round here have the strangest queuing system ever. Once you’ve ordered you take a step back against the wall. Anyone that comes in and doesn’t know the system thinks that’s the queue. Yabu.
It’s hardly annoying to be polite and make sure you’re not queue jumping

I live in fear of accidentally pushing in in queues, sorry OP but I always ask

For the side queuers, I recommend turning side on, so your back is to them, even though this means you are also stood ‘oddly’. Works a treat.

OP, you are BU, you are giving mixed or unclear signals. Also, truly, nothing on your phone is that important, try engaging with real life and you may be less of an arse.

You've clearly never thought a person wasn’t in the queue, you move forwards to be served and they come out of nowhere in high dudgeon that you ‘pushed in’ as they were ‘clearly in the queue’ even though they were nowhere near the cashier.

Guards! Seize them!