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'.

I do. I particularly hate people who say ‘I got kids’ as if having offspring with you sometimes gives you priority.

I always do

I was in Tesco a few weeks back, and whenever I have a lot of items I will always offer someone directly behind to go before me if they have a few bits so they don't have to wait ages.

However, this couple, who were older, so not youngsters, old enough to be potentially grandparents, decided queueing didn't apply to them.

I had a small basket, and the woman decided to use her stuffed trolley as a make shift battering ram, trying to smack me in the kegs and get past me.

I managed to avoid it and said "NO!" with force.
She looks at me and starts talking rapidly to her husband in French, I managed to pick out a few words along the lines of me being a cow for not getting the hint and letting her go before me.

So I said "I can understand what you are saying and there is a queue, I am before you and have 4 items, what's your excuse?"

She then got angry at me! At this point, a Tesco employee intervened and told her to go back in the queue.

Some people just think they're entitled to ignore good manners and conduct.

Good old Poundland 😆

I am very small and old so am often overlooked. I always say in my bestclearRP, "I believe it's my turn next" or point to some other hapless person who is being ignored.

My daughter groans and says "what are you up to now."

A similar-ish thing happened when leaving a gig with my Mum. We were at Maine Road Manchester (yes many years ago) and it was probably Bon Jovi or Pink Floyd, can't remember, we went to lots. Everyone was pushing to get out. The tunnels were very narrow and as my mum was only 4' 11" and a fair bit older than everyone else, as was I to be fair, I was worried she might get knocked over, so I bellowed STOP FUCKING PUSHING and amazingly everyone did. She was so proud of her delicate little daughter, but we all left safely.

Joking aside it is easy to see how these bad crush situations happen, it is a bit scary and you were lucky not to be trampled underfoot.

You can understand this sort of thing if people are in a situation when they are literally starving and fighting over the last loaf of bread, but going into or out of an entertainment event is ridiculous.

I skipped the. Queue for the bus last night. Probably wouldn't have got on otherwise

If someone cuts in front of me & is in earshot I'll ask them if they're in a hurry & ask "did you want to jump in then?"
Just to make a point but I don't usually say much else, I normally aim it as a sort of joke

In Boots recently the queue was just me, another woman was hovering but appeared well after me and wasn't looking like was waiting to be served. She tutted at me and called me rude when I was rightly served before her, so I span round and told her I had been waiting and I was there before her. She swore at me and flounced off to the other tills. Saw her standing in a much larger queue as I walked out of the shop!

Another recent one was upon landing at Luton airport. They opened the family gates for us to go through passport control and an older couple tried to come through with us. Staff member asked if we were all together and woman shouted YES as I said no, although suddenly realised that was a bit tight and I could have said yes and done a good deed. Then she called me a fxxking bxxch so I felt better about my decision then.

I am not assertive in the slightest, and am a bit of a pushover... but I can find my voice when someone tries to push in.
I was at a checkout in Lidl, and the cashier was literally about to start scanning my shopping, when some CF came up to me with a basket of items (more than I had!) and asked to go infront. For some reason, all of the people behind me had let him skip the queue. I told him no, and that I was next.

sassyclassyandsmartassy, I had this about 20years ago, waiting in the queue for a little train ride, and Asian gentleman in front of me. Ready to get on train and about 20 kids came running up in front of us and got on the train, guy reckoned he couldn't speak English when I challenged him. I was raging.

I tell them to get the fuck back in line.

100%. the plane isn’t leaving without you. I just wait until the end and everyone has finished faffing around. It’s like the scrabble to get off as well. Just relax, it’s only a few minutes why the stress?! I’m almost always last on, last off a plane 😂.

Queue jumping in general though, absolutely call that out. You don’t have to be rude.
‘Excuse me, I’m afraid the back of the queue is actually over there’ tends to do the trick. Even if they clearly did it deliberately it gives them a less embarrassing ‘out’.

Was your need for the bus greater than the person who now couldn’t get on but had waited for longer? Didn’t know buses operated on any principle other than ‘you are here first’.

That was rude of you to skip the queue.

100%. the plane isn’t leaving without you. I just wait until the end and everyone has finished faffing around. It’s like the scrabble to get off as well. Just relax, it’s only a few minutes why the stress?! I’m almost always last on, last off a plane

Getting on, it's about the overhead luggage space.

Getting off, it's about being first, or further forward, in the passport queue. It could also be about making a connecting flight.

I don't understand why people keep parroting that it's fine to queue jump when boarding a plane because it doesn't matter who gets on first. If you don't care when you get on, wait until the queue has gone. But if people do queue for whatever reason, it's still rude as hell to waltz in front of them.

absolutely!

People have made the effort to arrive early to be first in the queue, for whatever reason, there's a queue, respect it.

Depends on scenario whether I would actually say something (and there have been plenty of times I have - haha one time the woman got so defensive she went on the offensive and said how rude I was (for asking her not to push in....) and she'd been down in London for the day and not one person had been rude to her until me); but I would ALWAYS seethe at it as pushing in to a clear queue infuriates me.

The woman tapping me on the shoulder would also infuriate me too - you're entitled to say something to the queue jumper if you want to, it's not up to her whether you do or not, but you hadn't even said anything and had just pulled a face (which I would too) so who does she think she is deciding what you can't even pull a face?!

And so could the person she shoves in front of.

I can give you DH's reasoning. He flies a lot & on many flights passengers have much hand luggage. He likes to be amongst the first on the plane so he can put his hand luggage in the locker above his seat, rather than wherever there's room for it. It doesn't bother me, but it's important to him.

If it's important, pay for the hold
I never take anything on the plane that can't fit under the seat in front

if it's important, the last thing you want is putting things in the hold.
I am not even asking how you can go away for several days and fit everything in a tiny bag going under the seat.

Surely arriving early and starting queuing early to guarantee a spot above your head is the correct way?

It's not a tiny bag
A normal rucksack fits under the seat in front
if I cant fit it in a rucksack then it goes in the hold
Obviously valuables would be in the rucksack