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Wowzawow · 2023-09-21T13:44:13+00:00

Short one Basically when people don’t look to check if there’s a queue when I’m in a shop waiting at the checkout and just walk in front of me, I’ll say “Excuse me, there’s a queue” or “Excuse me, I’m also waiting for the checkout”, or something to that effect. My husband always gets embarrassed and tells me to let it go and “live and let live”. AIBU?

Olika · 21/09/2023 16:58

itsmeafterall · 21/09/2023 15:32

I don't let people push in. Had a run in at a packed tube the other day. Young bloke swanned past the huge queue and tried to beep on the turnstile before me, obvs thinking I was a slow old lady (😂). Like lightning I beeped my card before him, reaching my hand under his.

He was affronted and said incredulously "really? how petty !" I turned round , gave him a withering stare and responded "maybe, but at least I have manners and know how to queue".

People behind me grinned. I strode off, happy in my petty victory 😬. The entitled little shit.

Conversely if I'm not in a hurry at supermarket I'll offer for people behind to go first if they have a small basket.

Loving this

MsFrost · 21/09/2023 17:00

Are you one of those people who stands about 5 metres away from the checkout waiting though? Some people do this and then it's hard to notice when there's a queue! Stand as close to the checkout as is socially acceptable and make it obvious you're there.

BatshitCrazyWoman · 21/09/2023 17:02

I travel on the tube every day, and only this afternoon I blocked two blokes from barging onto a just-arrived tube when the passengers who wanted to get off hadn't actually left the train (the rule is to let passengers off first). Might have muttered 'ignorant knobheads' under my breath. So rude.

ambitchious · 21/09/2023 17:02

pleasefuckinggodno · 21/09/2023 16:56

Least magical place I’ve ever been and the staff are SO rude, it’s very unfortunate. I don’t think the French are very well placed to deliver the Disney concept.

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They are not unfortunately. The staff in Florida are truly magical tbf, even most of the the people sweeping the ground in the parks are magical. The very first time and day we went to MK an elderly man shouted out to my daughter ’There you are!’, bowed and asked for her autograph and said he had always dreamed of one day meeting Ariel.

comedownwithme · 21/09/2023 17:03

I'm not confrontational, so I wouldn’t say anything. It's either a genuine mistake, or they are the type of people who don't care and are likely to give some grief back if challenged.

Either way I don't care enough to be bothered by it

GrimGrinningGhosts · 21/09/2023 17:06

I've been to DLP three times this year alone and never experienced this. I'm off again in a fortnight so will be interesting to see if time of year does make a difference.

In Supermarkets I always let folk with a few bits through, if they try and push I've been known to exclaim to DH "My invisibility cloak! IT WORKS".

minipeony · 21/09/2023 17:08

It's fine but do it nicely. I have a disability and don't always notice a line as I get disorientated. I get really aggressive people having a go at me sometimes for not noticing

minipeony · 21/09/2023 17:11

Wowzawow · 21/09/2023 14:49

No no definitely not, I always believe when they apologise and acknowledge their mistake and I’ll tell them not to worry and give them a smile, everyone has days where they’re just in a world of their own, and that’s perfectly fine.

Thank you that is prefect for me

Ýsette · 21/09/2023 17:16

I was waiting to get on a train. The very well fed man inside on his phone motioned with his head for me to open the door for him. I declined and moved to the next carriage

pontipinemum · 21/09/2023 17:22

MsFrost · 21/09/2023 17:00

Are you one of those people who stands about 5 metres away from the checkout waiting though? Some people do this and then it's hard to notice when there's a queue! Stand as close to the checkout as is socially acceptable and make it obvious you're there.

Yes, the other day in the shop there was another woman way back from the till, I just said are you queuing, she moved forward then.

The amount of people that 'didn't notice' the people queuing back from the tils during covid though, I think a lot of them were chancers.

Annasoror · 21/09/2023 17:23

It depends. If someone is in an urgent hurry, I don't mind, if they are nice about it. I saw someone give grief to a very elderly man in an airport last week, who would have missed his flight if he'd not jumped the queue, and I thought they could try to be a bit understanding. He should probably have arranged extra help from the airport, but still. I also think that, unless you're in a huge hurry, it's nice to let people go ahead of you at the supermarket if they have only a couple of things.

WoollyRosebud · 21/09/2023 17:24

GrimGrinningGhosts · 21/09/2023 17:06

I've been to DLP three times this year alone and never experienced this. I'm off again in a fortnight so will be interesting to see if time of year does make a difference.

In Supermarkets I always let folk with a few bits through, if they try and push I've been known to exclaim to DH "My invisibility cloak! IT WORKS".

Went to the Harry Potter tour last week and someone tried to push their way in front of me. I commented that I was so glad my Invisibility Cloak was working. They glared at me but did go to the back.

imnotwhoyouthinkiam · 21/09/2023 17:25

I hate queue jumpers with a passion. Especially on public transport. I got on the bus last week, it pulled up about 30 seconds after I got to the bus stop. I was quite clearly walking towards the door whilst trying to find my ticket when another woman walked straight past me and got on the bus. The driver made her get off, let me on then let her on and told her not to jump the queue in future.

pontipinemum · 21/09/2023 17:27

@Annasoror some people are arses! Coming home from my first 'girls holiday' aged 18, the flight was delayed a few hours. The bus would never get us to our train on time, the queue for taxi's was ages long so we asked could we jump the queue as we would miss the last train home. Everyone apart from 1 woman at the top of the queue let us pass. Her husband argued with her saying they were getting their taxi straight home, these girls will be stuck at the train station all night. She said she didn't care she had queued and so should we and hopped into the next taxi.

We got the next taxi and arrived at the station to see our train pulling out 😭

FionnulaTheCooler · 21/09/2023 17:28

I wouldn't have confronted queue jumpers when I was younger but I will do now. When it was still Covid social distancing and keeping two metres apart a couple of CFs tried to insert themselves into the gap between me and the person in front in a shop. There's no way they could have failed to notice the rest of the queue snaking back to the entrance of the shop they were just trying it on. A pointed "The end of the queue is that way" from me and a "Wait your turn like we've all had to" from the woman behind me soon sent them on their way, with filthy looks thrown at both of us 😂.

ItsNotRocketSalad · 21/09/2023 17:35

MsFrost · 21/09/2023 17:00

Are you one of those people who stands about 5 metres away from the checkout waiting though? Some people do this and then it's hard to notice when there's a queue! Stand as close to the checkout as is socially acceptable and make it obvious you're there.

Yep. If this is happening to you so often you make a thread about it, you're the problem.

RedDawg · 21/09/2023 17:36

Reminds me of the time I popped to sainsburys chemist for migraine tablets, picked up some food whilst there and joined a queue only to me tapped on the shoulder by someone that was the size of a giant, I was mortified and immediately apologised and explained I was in la la land and had not seen him 🫣. He was surprised as no one ever would not see him 😆

Giard · 21/09/2023 17:38

Does that happen a lot? Maybe twice in my 53 years...

ambitchious · 21/09/2023 18:02

RedDawg · 21/09/2023 17:36

Reminds me of the time I popped to sainsburys chemist for migraine tablets, picked up some food whilst there and joined a queue only to me tapped on the shoulder by someone that was the size of a giant, I was mortified and immediately apologised and explained I was in la la land and had not seen him 🫣. He was surprised as no one ever would not see him 😆

😂😩

callmej · 21/09/2023 18:31

In my local Tesco Express there's the person tills and self-service tills. Though I'm not sure if it's marked as one queue for both, everybody always forms one line and then when a self-service comes free and nobody's moving, you point it out and ask everyone in front of you if they mind you using it. All very civilised and wonderfully British. But very occasionally someone will dart in from the left and go straight to the self-service without even acknowledging the queue - and worse, they're so far away that short of screaming at the top of your voice and launching yourself 30 foot across the room to claim your rightful place before they've managed to start scanning, all you can do is glare furiously at the back of their head and shoot evil looks at visible shop staff for not preventing this sort of outrage. I know it's not the worst thing in the world, but it really does make me irrationally angry - and as I really want to think of myself as a relaxed, go-with-the-flow type it makes me even angrier that I have to confront the fact that I am actually not a happy little hippy but rather a middle-aged woman who grumbles about how she was 'cut up' in the supermarket days after the event 😂😂

GingerIsBest · 21/09/2023 19:13

pleasefuckinggodno · 21/09/2023 16:50

When did you go? Apparently some dates are worse than others - like April bank holiday - which is a religious holiday for most of Europe.

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We went in July. I get soooo stressed in queues when people are queue jumping that it was such a revelation to feel like queue jumping wasn't as much of an option.

Although to be fair, it was busy but not insane so maybe that was part of it?

AuroraForever · 21/09/2023 19:29

I’m not particularly bothered by queue jumpers. Generally when it’s happened those who have gone in front of me by mistake have been mortified when they’ve realised and that’s good enough for me. I usually let people behind me go in front in supermarkets if they’ve got less than I have or if their kids are being a pain in the arse. On public transport I let others get off before I do, we’re all going to get where we’re going so it doesn’t matter to me what order we do it in!

itsmeafterall · 21/09/2023 20:13

@GingerIsBest I had 2 pregnancy Waterloo and city line experiences.

The first when I fainted and people stepped over me. Bastards.

The second when I was so nauseous and hot that I stated to strip off all clothes I could in the confined space , looking more and more green and sweaty. Bastard grinning fucker in a suit laughed at me straight into my face. Me: "I'd stop grinning if I were you mate, I'm about to redecorate you Armani suit". I've never seen space appear so magically on a packed tube train before or since 😂😂😂😂
I ended up in the Bank control room, having been rescued by the staff. I noisily threw up into their toilet, emerging to see the sea of disgusted /shocked /sympathetic faces in the control room (how can such a small pregnant woman throw up so noisily ?). They gave me water and sent me home.

This was long before 'baby on board ' badges. Gif I'd have given my right arm for one of those !!!

Annasoror · 22/09/2023 00:52

pontipinemum · 21/09/2023 17:27

@Annasoror some people are arses! Coming home from my first 'girls holiday' aged 18, the flight was delayed a few hours. The bus would never get us to our train on time, the queue for taxi's was ages long so we asked could we jump the queue as we would miss the last train home. Everyone apart from 1 woman at the top of the queue let us pass. Her husband argued with her saying they were getting their taxi straight home, these girls will be stuck at the train station all night. She said she didn't care she had queued and so should we and hopped into the next taxi.

We got the next taxi and arrived at the station to see our train pulling out 😭

How mean of her. It would have cost nothing just to be a bit kind.

Allofthisisasimulation · 22/09/2023 12:32

I sometimes let someone go in front if they have a much smaller amount than me, however if assume/try to push in then I don't let them. I also think that there's a limit to how many people 'with 1 or 2 things' I'd let in, because eventually they'd soon add up to quite a lot.