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'.

Many years ago I was lucky enough to be in Sydney for New Year and at that time there were about 20 standing tickets available (on a first come, first served basis) for the Opera House's New Year's Eve concert which you could queue for on the day. I decided to queue and got there at about 5pm. I was 1st in the queue and a few people arrived after me. Obviously you can guess what happened.

When you have been queueing for a long time for one of a very limited number of tickets, to have someone try to queue jump is totally unacceptable. The would-be jumpers were given very short shrift and sent on their way.

I got my ticket and it was a wonderful evening, watching the 9pm fireworks from the walkway right on the harbour and sharing a bottle of bubbly with a New Zealand couple at midnight as the main firework display saw in the New Year - happy memories.

Agree with that. I still don’t understand the need to rush about, but if people ARE in a queue you get to the back, not push in!

Different thread but it's not about paying, it's about the wait at the other end, assuming that your case doesn't get lost. I always try to travel with hand luggage only but don't go away for very long trips.

And one for another thread as well - why don't airlines board their planes from the back?

Yeah fair enough if you need the overhead space. I’ve never had a problem with finding any even on packed flights but maybe depends on the airline.

I can understand for connections for sure. Passport queue we always end up pretty far back as we get our hold luggage, go for a wee etc before heading to control. I guess I just assume it’s going to take a while and don’t really worry about it.

Whatever your choice, queue or not queue pushing in is 100% not on.

Not all airlines allow you to put hand luggage under the seat in front & if you're in the front row there isn't a seat in front to put under.

It's definitely not about having to pay to put luggage in the hold. He wouldn't have to pay extra, as it would be included in the price of his ticket. The thread was about calling out queue jumpers. DH makes sure he gets to the gate early and his boarding pass is one of the first to be checked so he can get on the plane quickly for the reason I gave. He would challenge someone who queue jumped.

I have too, when picking up a parcel. The person I challenged said I was busy looking for something in my handbag - erm yes, the card that had been left & needed to be shown in order to pick the parcel up!

I use a wheelchair permanently and when I use the supermarket I find a trolley that clips to my chair. They are usually the smaller size trolleys even though I have three children so lots to buy. I was waiting at the conveyer belt ready to start putting my items on when my chair is hoiked backwards and some cheeky sod pushes in front with a basket. I asked him what the hell he thought he was doing? He said where’s your carer? I don’t need or have one what’s that got to do with queuing and moving my wheelchair (a handleless one). He thought I needed someone to do my shopping with. Why not ask?????? Cheeky git.

"Call them out" was in the original post.

Overhead space is often a problem. I travel constantly on business and it's not at all unusual for people towards the end of boarding to have their hand luggage taken down the plane by the cabin crew to where there's more space. If you're at the front of the cabin and that happens to you, on landing you have to wait until everyone else goes past you before you can go down and get your bag back. That can easily add 40+ minutes to your transit off the plane and through immigration with the queues.

I try hard to only take hand luggage even on longer trips as while the odds of your luggage being delayed or lost aren't terrible it does happen. So far this year I'm 11 trips in (with 4 long hauls), a total of 30 flight legs with the long haul connections, and my hold luggage was delayed by 2 days on one trip.

Over the past 10 years I've lost count of the number of times my hold luggage has gone awol - it's at least 10+ though, sometimes arriving on a later flight the same day, sometimes several days later, twice not at all... Granted that's over hundreds of flight legs but once is too many times when you need what you've packed.

I always pre order my coffee from Greggs via the click and collect app as it very busy in the morning. I go straight to the click and collect till where it’s ready and waiting for me.

a man told me the back of the queue was over there, fair enough, I explained I had pre ordered via click and collect. He got very irate and told me I still had to queue. I told him the exact statement on the app was “skip the queues when you click and collect”, but he still refused to back down. I just ignored him.

I've only ever experienced people trying to push in front in a queue from gen Z (I'm a millennial) it's happened to me a few times in the last few years but never before then. And yes I always call it out. Once I was getting into a taxi with a friend when a teenage girl pushed in front of us and tried to take the taxi, the taxi driver told her 'no' and I think he did the right thing.

It's happened a few times in the local co-op that school children (teenagers) have tried to push in front of me in the queue and I've always told them to go behind me and I was there first. This (crazy) entitled behaviour definitely needs to be called out. They won't stop if they are allowed to get away with it. And it can be a slippery slope.

Some people may not feel able to stand up to these sorts of people, so it's for the greater good if you're not that easily pushed around.

The trouble is that these kids see stuff on the internet, think its okay to emulate it, but don't understand the consequences. Also they are the generation that has never been reprimanded in any way, either at home or at school, and therefore know they can get away with whatever they like. Have you noticed how surprised they are when you tell them "NO"?

DH can't stand for more than a few minutes. On his own he will get to the end of a q say to the person in front and behind that this is his place but he needs to sit down and then get up when his place has reached the front. If we're together I keep his place but tell the person behind me that.