To think ^I'm^ not the queue jumper here?

[GretaGip]

Went to fuel up today and paid for a car wash.

I drove around the to the start of the car wash and there was a car parked there, which I thought was odd as Id been the only person in the shop.

A man got out of his car and then wandered to the shop.

Menopausal rage ensued and I thought I wasn't having him push in. Obviously the convention is you get your ticket first then get in the queue.

So I drove around the front and precision reversed in.

Got out the car and put my code in as he walked back from the shop.

Apparently I'm a fucking bitch for doing this, according to the charmer in the parked audi.

So, Aibu to reclaim my rightful place in the queue?

MaybeSmaller · Today 11:31

...what are you supposed to do here? Queue for your food and risk there not being a table free for you to eat it at, so you have to stand around awkwardly while it gets cold?

Or get your food and stand around, whilst it gets cold, ditto the person behind you and ditto the person behind them.

Then some smug, selfish twat behind them sits at the unused, empty table.

@GretaGip

You are most definitely not the unreasonable one here. Let's break it down.

You were first and acted correctly, by buying your ticket and joining the queue in turn.

He, on the other hand, drives an Audi, which puts him in the Wrong balance from the off.

He then decided to push in and further, to block the car wash, to save HIM a few minutes, not caring that he was delaying you unfairly.

Then he became angry with you, even though he was in the wrong, by blocking you from using the car wash. I'm going to go out on a limb here, but he was probably jealous of your reversing skills.

He has then topped of his utter wrongy wrongness, by swearing at you, because you were able to regain your rightful place.

I'm getting a strong sense of small dick energy from him. I bet he had a purple face like a sun burned scrotum, too?

With a bit of luck, he worked himself up into such a rage that he crashed into a wall and had an aneurysm.

YANBU - what a legend 😂👏

😅

I'm with you OP. You get the ticket first and then you drive to the carwash.

Parking in front of it and then going to get your ticket is what the entitled self absorbed twats that live among us do.

The only exception I can possibly think of to this 'rule' is if there is already a large queue and someone is already in the car wash, and you join the large queue while your passenger runs in the shop to buy the ticket, because there is ample time before it would become your turn.

Parking in front of it, blocking it so no one else can use it, without having a ticket is a dick move.

Well done for the reversing in!! I'd of not had the guts to do that and would have sat silently seething at the prick.

Is it possible that he, like me, hadn't encountered a car wash where you can't pay at the entrance so had pulled up expecting to just make his selection and tap his card but then found out he had to go into the station to pre-pay?

Well then surely, wouldn't you, on seeing another car pull up, apologise to them and say you didn't realise you needed a ticket, move your car out of the way and then go and get your ticket? Not just leave it there making someone else, who already had a ticket, sit and wait for you?

You are my hero OP. Well done!

like you I always assumed only rude twats acted as he did. Imagine my surprise when the man I am married to did exactly this with me in the car. I’m still not over it. Rest assured he knows better now!

Apologies for not coming back.

My menopausal hot sweats rendered my fingers too slippy to type.

What I want to know @GretaGip is just how scary walking through the car wash was? I’ve had cause to do that before (different reason, helping an elderly lady who drove in not realising you had to put a code in and was puzzled why it wouldn’t start) and it was very very unnerving!

why would you make that bet?

men fight men all the time. It’s the main thing they think they are good at (but most end up being bad at),

men aren’t shy at calling out people, regardless of their sex.

Oooohhhhh...I always buy the car wash FIRST and then drive round?

You were ready to use the wash, he wasn't. So in my view yanbu.

MN double standards writ large here. Imagine this post, "parked at the correct waiting space for the car wash today and went to pay. When I came out a man, a mannish manny man, had somehow reversed into the car wash ahead of me. What a cheeky, male thing to do! I called him a knob and he didn't look pleased. Hope everyone agrees what a knob he was."

@Hobbi yes yes yes

You can use contactless to pay at the entrance to the wash where we go misses point of thread

Don’t be silly, of course he would not have verbally another man in the same way. He was being a dick.

bloody good for you!

what a dick, (course it was an Audi 🙄, it always is).

I always park by the car wash with enough room for anyone to go past me into the car wash, should they have their ticket before me.
He's the dick.

Maybe in your one but not one round here.

Menopausal rage? YABU just for perpetuating the misogynistic myth that women are unhinged because they think with their uterus.

What you did seems fair enough to me. I think it's a bit of a cheek to get into the queue and prevent anyone else from using it whilst drifting round the shop and buying a ticket. It seems that it was in fact his intention to prevent anybody else from using it before him, by the way he reacted when you got in before him :) Good for you!

YANBU. He should have pulled over to the side, bought a ticket and then joined the queue.

😂😂😂Well played! The car wash was blocked by a parked car, how else we're you supposed to get your car washed?!