To be annoyed by customers who implement a single queuing system at the cashpoints

[knpeppa]

... and glare at you because you start queuing for an individual machine.

Because they're afraid that the other queue might move faster and they don't want to look silly? How long does it take to use a cashpoint anyway - 2 minutes at the most?

And then it all breaks down when one of the machines is different from the others and people only want to queue for that one.

Single queue starters - get a life! If having a single queue was possible, the bank would do it.

i agree .

Not much to do today then Knpeppa?

I'm a single queue person.
Queue in the middle and go to whichever machine comes free next.
Fair's fair!

Individual queue starters - get a life!

but banks DO have single queues that feed off into many windows

I don't care .. I go with the flow, if I get there and there's a central queue I join it, if 2 separate queues I pick one and join it .. I am a born queuer it is genetic inbreeding I think

Is this really what Mumsnet has come to?

Nothing better to start a scrap over than queuing?

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Oh don't you just love queue politics?

Our local Boots does have a single queue system at counter and the other day I was at the front. A woman behind me said 'which till are you going to?' whilst subtly nudging past.

I said 'I think there's only one queue' so then she pushed past and said 'well I'll go to this one!'

She must have saved herself all of 2 minutes, fgs!

I don't care which it is as long as no-one shoves in.

My bank has the single queue thing inside, btw.

Sod queueing - just barge in .

joke.

I'm a single queue kinda girl!

What I hate is that awful moment in a big shop (normally dept store) where you have to queue round a desk. But the person in front of you hasn't queued round the desk and is just sticking out and you don't know whether to queue round the desk or behind the person in front because if you queue round the desk then someone else might come and just stand behind the person in front.

Or something..

Is it just my loca Lidl (am I asking this?) where 'mature couples' go to separate queues and reunite at the faster moving one once one gets to the conveyor belt? I only have single cash machines where I live, how interesting is that?

Stleger I've done that with the different tills! I'm sad, aren't I?

Don't shop in Lidl though [puke emoticon]
[ruthlessly middle class emoticon]

I have only seen it in Lidl, it seems to be a place for shopping couples. And it sells coffee cream chocolates which I like! And cottage cheese.

Bang - at Christmas I was forced back behind an imaginary line in a shop 'in case you see the person in front of you putting in their pin' even as the shop assistant on the other side of the desk was signalling frantically for people to come forwards to her empty till . A row of tills would solve this sort of issue.

Single queues fairer IMO.

One queue is much fairer-otherwise I always get stuck in the one with a problem.

Single queuer here.

Think of it this way - if you were in a hurry and your multi queue was stalled by the div who wants to check balance in every account, forgets pin, uses another card etc etc. Much fairer and quicker to single queue.

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I go with the flow but definitely prefer single queues - much fairer. I was in a single queue for 2 tills at a garden centre once - not started by my but when I got to the front of it I was the only person in it. a bloke came up and started tutting at me and saying how confusing it was. I so regret that at the time I didn;t have the presence of mind to say something along the lines of "if you find the concept of one queue for two tills confusing I really am astonished how far you've managed to come in life..."

also re the op - if there's already a single queue and you start a new one at an individual machine then you're pushing in. so you deserve to be glared at. in a smiley please god lets not argue about queues kind of way