AIBU to feel this angry about queue jumpers?

[LeggyLinda]

This is my first AIBU question (though I’ve been here a while) so please forgive me if I don’t make sense - this is my first started thread.

We have a bus stop. Busses stop there (obviously). People wait in line for bus. All works perfectly in normal situations.

Bus service is unreliable and sometimes a service is missed which results in a big queue. But recently I’ve noticed that people see the queue and decide to stand at the front (pretending to look at the timetable( and then make the beginnings of a new queue going the other direction.

The “fake” queue then grows as more arrivals are encouraged to join it by the queue jumpers (to give it credibility I suppose).

This is half term week and I assume that visitors do not know the protocol (despite signs). But I get really angry when I’ve been waiting for a bus for 45 mins and someone who’s been there 5 mins gets on board and I have to wait for the next one (which could be ages).

I know this is a first world problem. I am not disabled, nor do I have young children with me (usually). But I get so uncharacteristically annoyed by this.

For the first time (that I’ve seen) someone challenged one of these queue jumpers today and it got quite aggressive. I wish I could’ve stood up and supported them, but I’m obviously too weak 😢

IABU to be upset so much about this?
I probably am.
Considering everything that’s going on in the world, for this to anger me so much is unreasonable surely?

I frickin hate queue jumpers! Gives me the absolute rage even when the thing we’re queuing for doesn’t matter at all, or I’m not in a hurry. It’s just the principle of the thing!

But I get really angry when I’ve been waiting for a bus for 45 mins and someone who’s been there 5 mins gets on board and I have to wait for the next one

So why don't you speak up?

To put another viewpoint: what's the etiquette when for some reason the person at the front of the queue is standing well back from the bus stop, meaning that if everyone obediently queues behind them half the queue is standing out in the rain even though there is plenty of room in the bus shelter? Personally in that situation I think "Fuck it" and go and stand at the front of the queue, which probably makes everyone else hate me - but I let people who got there before me on to the bus first when it comes.

I bloody hate queue jumpers, but not as much as my DH does. But one of the funniest things I've seen is my husband mistakenly queue jumping about 20 people for a ticket machine at a train station.

As you walk in our local train station the doors are to the right with the machines on that wall. To the left is a big open space where people wait in the bad weather and on this occasion there was a queue of about 20 people. I drop DH off for his train, he's on the minutes as usual and jumps out of the car and strides into the station (followed by his mate) straight to an un occupied ticket machine. He quickly taps in what he wants, pays, turns back to me, gives me a wave and off they go. I notice his friend is creasing up laughing.

DH genuinely didn't realise there was a queue, there are 4 ticket machines usually, on that day 3 we're out of order. Hence the queue, but it's not unusual for that area to be full of people waiting out of the rain or queuing for the coffee shop etc. But he must have looked like such a twat just walking in like that. And no one in the queue said anything!!

The one that annoys me- as I commute on a bus service that a lot of kids from local college also use- is when there’s one or two teenagers in front of me. Fine. Until the bus pulls in. Then all of a sudden a hoard of their mates appear from nowhere armed with Maccies, pushing to the front to catch up with their mates. Proper pisses me off. I’ve tried speaking to them about their rudeness and they just laugh in my face.

I once told off 4 men in Istanbul airport as they were plotting a queue jump ahead of me (25 year old girl, alone) at the interminably long passport control queue.
They didnt speak English but totally understood what I was saying and didnt attempt it again as I was so cross.
It's the sheer entitlement of queue jumpers that gets me. I tell people every single time that there's a queue, even older people, who do try it on a bit at times. Very politely but firmly too.
You aren't being unreasonable but do say something.