Do you call people out who push in queues etc?

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I can't stand it when people just push into long queues and usually say something. I know people will say 'just leave it', but this is how they keep getting away with it, by relying on nobody saying anything.

I know there are much worse things in life, but when you've been queueing a long time and you're tired and fed up, it's not nice.

This can apply to other things in life too.

I was queueing to board a plane last night after a long delay, a woman in her 20s decided she didn't fancy the long queue and just pushed in near the front. A woman must've seen me looking irritated so she tapped me on the shoulder and said 'Just leave her, she might not be all there'.

Not to sound aggressive but nobody pushes in front of me. I hate queuing and I hate queue jumpers. You ain’t getting in.

Definitely. I’m in a queue to pay/board/whatever for me. I’m not being a placeholder for some self-important CF!

One time I was queuing in the pharmacy for my pain relief and antibiotics prescription as I had an abscess in my tooth, I was in agonising pain and could barely stand still when an older man went to the front of the queue of about 6 people under the guise of asking if something was in stock then gave it the “while I’m at the front I can just quickly get my prescription”. I absolutely kicked off. On a normal day I’d probably be annoyed but would leave it because he was older, but he was visually fit and well with no mobility issues (maybe early 60s) and my jaw was giving me the worst pain I’d ever felt!

My daughter and I waited 35 minutes at a Taylor Swift concert for one of the merch stands. A couple pushed in saying they were “just looking” then got served straight away!!! They stood there smirking 😡
I told them to f* o** to the back of the queue and wait like everyone else, they bought what they wanted and sauntered off - cheeky fuckers!!!

A woman tried to push ahead of me two days ago when I was in queue to board a plane. I turned and said: ' sorry, but this is the system. You queue but you don't try jump it'. Got a real 'f... you' look, but it worked!

I don't understand the plane boarding thing. Its been a few years since I flew anywhere but I thought that once you had booked in and got your boarding pass with seat allocation it was irrelevant when you got on. I always waited till the scrum was over and then just got on without all the hassle. Most of my flights were long haul so the less time sitting in the one place the better as far as I was concerned.

We were recently in Portaventura in Salou queuing for a ride. There was a girl behind us with her partner. The entire queue she was literally up my ar$e (I was behind my husband with our child in front of him) I moved in front of my husband so I was in front, my child between us and him at the back. At one point she managed to squeeze herself past my husband level with my son then reached behind my husband to take her partner’s hand to pull him forward. I am not an aggressive person at all but when she tried to push past me I actually put my hand on her and pushed her back saying ‘NO’ I actually couldn’t believe someone would thing that was an acceptable thing to do. Even now I am agog that someone would thing this was acceptable behaviour.

A man in front of me once tried to get served before 2 children in front of him. They looked so confused so I said really loudly to the server “They were first.”

Server looked uncomfortable as they knew the man was trying to push in and hadn’t dealt with it themselves.

Man said “Oh I didn’t see them.”

Yes he did, unless he walked through them or over them as he’d managed to queue behind them until they were at the front.

Not having that!

👏 Winner of the thread, clearly.

Absolutely make a fuss!
Once, long ago, I queued over an hour for a delayed train in London. A couple walked straight to the front of the long, long line. Someone immediately politely pointed out there was a queue but were ignored. Several more passengers made it clear less politely. Then a a police officer was brought, who said there was nothing he could do, the queue -'jumpers smirking smugly at this.
So when the gates to the platform were finally opened, the queue, working as one, mobbed them. They were surrounded, shoved out of the way. Several people 'accidentally' bumped into them wiith their luggage.
Oh joy!

I'm one of those who huffs and puffs and doesn't say anything but make my annoyance known. When it comes it bar queues however I am ruthless! Xx

I was queueing to board a plane

Do you get to the destination faster if you board earlier? If there is one place I couldn't care less about queue jumping, it's airports. No one gets anywhere any sooner when they are scrambling around to get on and off planes, so just relax 😎

Saw the classiest act ever once many moons ago at a supermarket. The bloke hadn’t barged into a queue as such but he had taken a loaded trolley to a 10 items and less checkout (not seen one of those for years now). There were a few remarks made directly to him and other people in the queue grumbling quietly but he ignored it all. He reaches the checkout and the checkout girl smiles warmly at him and says, ‘good morning sir and which 10 items would you like” Cue a round of applause and he marched out in a huff with none of his items. Brilliant; wish they could all be like that but these days it’s probably too much of a risk for any of them to take

I do, i just say in a ver loud voicem excuse me, the end of the queue is just over there. Very occasionally you get someone who tells you to F**k off but most realise they can’t push in. I agree airport security queues are different, nothing more stressful than being close to missing a flight based on something going wrong on your journey to airport.

Not bothered when boarding a plane, it won't leave without me! I always wait on a comfy seat until the line has gone down. But yesterday I was in a queue for a loo when two 20ish girls pushed through and used the disabled loo. Wished I'd stopped them, they were too quick for me.

I did during covid. Our supermarket, like many, had stickers on the ground where you had to stand when queuing for the till. However, they went down the aisles so the queue couldn't quite be seen.
Or easier to pretend not to see.
Anyway, I was queuing with my trolley and a guy, mid to late 30s? went with his basket to the till and put his shopping on the conveyor belt. I was a bit taken aback but thought oh well, it's just a few items so let it go. But when another man of a similar age did the same I did say ahem there is a queue here! He did then take his basket and join the queue.

Depends on the queue.

For boarding a plane, who cares, you all have tickets, you will all get on the plane and arrive at the same time. What's the point in pushing to the front just to have to sit and wait for everyone else 🤷‍♀️

On other occasions I am entirely happy to speak up or get my elbows out.

St Marcos in Venice has long queues & attracts people who seem to be super entitled & very practiced queue jumpers. I saw 2 off. We were about 10 in a queue of thousands.

One very well dressed, tall, handsome, very entitled guy in his 30's said it was a free county & he could do what he liked. I replied "ok great, I'll use my freedom to tell you what an arsehole you are the entire time you continue to stand there."

Which I did. Loudly. For several minutes - not sure how long. 10 or so minutes - the opening was delayed. It felt like forever but I wasn't giving up & it made queuing less boring. He even threatened me "you will regret this you don't know who I am in this town" etc. Sure dude whatever.

Eventually he decided to leave - entirely his decision of course 😃😃😃

He wasn't even in front of me but muscling in on some mortified Japanese tourists behind me in the queue. They were very thankful once he was gone.

My kids were both astonished, embarrassed & delighted.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I was once travelling with a friend in Europe when group of women with small children tried to push in front of us at the pay desk. I called them out. They said they would miss their train - and would have to wait eight hours for another one. They hovered behind me while I was paying so I put my arm around my friend (who was going somewhere else) to keep them at bay.

Once my transaction was done I did not stand aside to allow them in behind me. I kept my arm around my friend so they couldn't push in before he had bought his tickets. All one of them had to do was say "Please can we go first or we are going to miss our train, there's not another until this evening" and we would have allowed them in front. Instead they swore at us repeatedly, until a member of the security team got involved and escorted them to the back of the queue.

When he did the threatening "you don't know who I am" etc i said " you're a queue jumper who everyone thinks is a dickhead"
🤣

I was shaking the whole time inside but kept going mostly as I was also enjoying it & I really really didn't want him to win.

We were at a city light show. The road was closed and there was one of those snake queues with fences to manage people who wanted to go into one of the buildings and see the lights. They were letting people in groups inside every five mins, so the queue moved quickly, then stopped, then moved quickly etc.

We were in the queue and when it moved forwards, I didn't notice the kerb. I tripped and fell flat on my face. People behind used this opportunity to step over the top of me and get ahead of me in the queue 😮

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Brutal!

Yeah I've been going to gigs for more decades than I care to quote-theres a difference between the good natured shimmying through the throng, & full-on thumping verging on assault. Yes it happens, doesn't make it right. I don't go to gigs & think, 'great, now I can literally attack my way through people'.

Same thing happened with me in Poundland. I hate queue jumping with a passion,especially because I'm disabled with mobility problems and find standing in a queue for ages exhausting. About a year ago,I politely pointed out to the woman who joined the queue at the front that the queue started 'back there', gesturing behind me. She rounded on me, saying that she was waiting to use the self-service tills. I said 'There aren't two separate queues for self-service or manned tills'. She accused me of being aggressive! Obviously she'd led a very sheltered life if she thought that my behaviour was anything like aggressive.

Oh my God! People are just unbelievable sometimes. Sorry this happened to you.