Tube Etiquette: Who goes on first?

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Alright picture this. It’s busy on the London underground. You’re waiting for the tube. You didn’t manage to get on the previous tube. So you stand where the doors will stop. The tube stops, so you move directly to the side to let passengers off the tube before you can get on.

Someone sees you waiting. It’s obvious what you are doing. But instead, they decide to jump straight to the front of the queue and push past you to get on the tube.

AIBU to think it’s pretty obvious that the people waiting to the side of the tube doors get to go on first?

How did they get in front of you - you mean they just barged through all the people getting off?

Yes yanbu but that never happens.... maybe a better chance on jubilee where its obvious where doors are and can stake your claim easier.

Same at bus stops some queue and other just join where they feel like ot despite the massive orderly looking queue

There is no tube etiquette. Plenty of people barge on as others are getting off.

There's no queue. You are close to the doors this time and will be able to get on. No time to stress about other people's intentions on the tube.

You're right OP. It was definitely your right of way.

Everybody has an arsehole.

And you find extra ones on public transport (and the roads) everywhere you go - aways have done; I remember being very pregnant and frequently being shoulderbarged out of the way always by middleaged men in suits when actually stepping onto the train, one foot in train, one foot in the air.

All you can do is wish for him to become infested with tube network bedbugs when he barges his way to the seat. And roll your eyes and get on with your day.

It would be polite for them to wait but it’s London in rush hour… the whole London rush hour thing is wrong but I think your expectations are unreasonable!

Every man/woman/whatever you identify as for themselves. Surely only etiquette is on the escalators 🤣

There is no etiquette on the tube, it’s every man for himself.

I have a crutch.

Tends to stop most people.

Tube etiquette is everybody stands to the side to let people off. There's no etiquette about who gets on first.

there's no etiquette because the majority of people are busy and have more important things to worry about eg work.
think for yourself and no one else otherwise you end up stood at the closing doors, when you probably could have fit in the first one,

how is people going to and from work wrong?

Whoever goes on first goes on first🤷‍♀️

Wheelchair crutches etc always go first

Absolutely 'queue rules' i.e. person that's been waiting the longest goes on first but as with all things, you get the odd person who through genuine obliviousness or sheer nerve will ignore the (implicitly formed and seething) queue and barge their way straight to the front, you just have to inwardly tut and get on with it I'm afraid. I once ever saw someone on a really packed tube who was forced to get off even though it wasn't their stop to let the people behind them in the packed carriage off, as any fool knows the person that's done this gets back on first before people waiting on the platform but to our assembled horror we saw a guy with a huge backpack and earphones in waltz past sideswiping her and nearly knocking her off her feet (luckily it was so overcrowded she pretty much just pinballed straight back up off the crowd standing next to her). The rudeness! The horror!

Although tbf we've all been 'that' person even if we don't care to admit it, I still get cold shivers thinking about the time I accidentally waltzed past the mother of all queues waiting for the one working public water fountain in a park on a hot day, people were standing politely well back while the head of the queue filled their bottle so I strolled right past them with my head in the clouds looking at the pretty flowers etc only to notice I was being glared at by about 50 people 😦just not lest ye be judged and all that!

There is always going to be someone who does this. It's common sense to let people off the train before getting on,but a hell of a lot of people obviously don't understand this.

I think you’ve done well to have only one person push in front of you on the tube. Tube etiquette, from what I have observed, is basically whoever can push through goes first.

No rules on the underground except walk on the left/ stand on the right and let the passengers off first. After that it’s everyone for themselves. I hate the stupid jubilee platforms where people try and queue

This. You don't queue to get on.

The London Tube rule seems to be shove and/or be shoved but I never got on with it. Funnily enough, I agree with you OP that both sense and courtesy suggest it might be a plan to let disembarking passengers off and not barge through em like a pissed-up Ghostbuster. Sense also suggests someone standing back when the doors open and people get off is waiting for something very like that to happen, as opposed to just a TfL hobbyist enjoying the sexist jostling and whiffy breezes. Agreed it’s frequently those terribly important men in suits who haven’t a second to spare, nor enough sense or courtesy to go around.

A very well-dressed city boy behind me once decided to assist me onto the tube by bodily propelling me into a flow of egressing commuters, perhaps he got confused and thought it was the queue for tuck. Let’s hope the massive ridder he got when I loudly told him to get his sweaty fucking mitts off my back clarified my personal view on transport etiquette for him a bit 🤪

Tube etiquette?
There is no such thing.
I would do what you do, it's polite and sensible. Expecting anyone else to do the same is bonkers.

At rush hour there is no tube etiquette.

It's a trick question. The real unreasonable ones were the other passengers not moving down and causing congestion in the door area in the first place so they can slump against the glass divider at the end of the seats or against the door when it shuts instead of getting out of the way and standing properly for a few minutes.

Some people are dicks, that’s really all there is to it.

I am definitely a glass slumper. It is nearly as good as getting a seat. I am very accepting of other people’s tube behaviour though and wouldn’t judge OP’s queue barger.