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'.

That's fantastic! And why I love acquainting myself with other cultures as opposed to the British, who have perfected a PA tutting and sighing but often without confronting the situation directly.

As for the pointy-elbowed variety in plane queues, why bother? Planes usually board in phases according to seat order: they're not going anywhere until boarding is complete.

I'm guessing these are of the same breed as those clicking off their seat belts the minute the wheels hit the tarmac and reaching for hand luggage before you even come to a standstill. Planes disembark row by row from the front end. Where on earth do these people think they're going?

I once told someone off for pushing in at a bar. He turned to me, apologised, and said he'd better buy me a drink then. And he did. And he still does. Reader, I married him.

I did food courier order pick where we put the bags at the CSD/kiosk. There was a man who barged at the front of the queue just to buy a bag of apples.

" I am not serving sir". He went into a right strop.

I was once behind a woman with just a basket, I had been there a couple of minutes when she turned round, waved to someone and then said to me 'She's with me, let her through', the other person had a fully load, deep trolley When I said No they were both furious and she called me a Stuck up bitch. When I said Maybe I am but I can also spell it. I do love a bit of passive aggression, it really annoys people.

"Will passengers in row 18-32 please come up with passports and boarding passes". Always someone in a row outside that range that queues up and gets stroppy when the boarding gate crew tell them they need to wait their turn.

Yes I do now. I'm a small woman and I've spent decades queuing at bars or to get groceries with someone pushing in.

But whilst queuing for hours in the heat for a tourist attraction a guide tried to push in because he has promised his group tickets for that particular time. Nah mate you are not going in front of me.

But yes when they are called out on it they accuse you of being rude

Where I lived in spain, they had a great system where whoever's just entered the shop, post office, bank, etc, asks who's the last person in the queue, and they take note of who they're behind. So simple, but it works when customers don't actually form a queue.

people in a rush are trying to push the bloody faffers who have nothing better to do than delaying the whole plane, take all their time and waste their day.

There's a special place in hell for these idiots. If you are not in a rush, just sit down and let the rest of us go through.

If you have a connecting flight, a connecting train or other, want to be ahead of the queue at passport control, it does pay off to rush off the plane. Just because you have all the time in the world, it doesn't mean the rest of us do. When the doors open, I am out.

I do, but assume they haven't realised (to be fair that is mostly the case), so just politely point out where the end of the line is.

Drivers on motorways - where there is a queue to exit or roadworks. Junction 10 M25 is full of roadworks at the moment and I make a return trip once a week. Every time, both ways, people do it. Always men and they very aggressively push in.

We were visiting Brighton and some guy pushed past me at the self serve queue in Sainsbury’s

I pointed out the queue and he told me to shut up so that red rag made me go full Glaswegian on him. it didn’t prevent him from scanning but it definitely made him pipe doon

Everytime, don't let them away with it. Bus queues, shops the lot. OH gets mortified but I don't care ha.

I tend to find that people who do have a reason will ask politely and those who don't are just chancers. There are times when I don't care and will let it go. And there are times – like when I was next to be served by an impressively slow bar team in an airport pub and someone tried to skip the entire queue – where I'll say something. Not the kind of thing where a blanket rule applies, I don't think.

I challenge all the time. My young DD now very loudly states "they've just queue jumped" and points at the offenders 😂

I tend to say something like, "hi. There's a queue." That way if it's actually an accident it's fine, if they're reasonable but a bit cheeky they can pretend they didn't know, and it's not too confrontational if they're a dickhead.

Don’t go to Euro Disney - queue pushing is an actual sport there. Imagine watching adult after adult push past thousands of small kids who are queuing up.

I work at Waitrose and have perfected my polite “The end of the queue is over there” with a smile. It’s generally the same people that try it. One lady tried to tell me that if I didn’t let her go first she would miss her gym class. I just carried on serving people in the queue!

I'm in Germany. Works fine without a queue for buses etc. No advantage to getting on first.

Worked at a bank branch 20 years ago. Monday mornings was the only time where the queue to be served by a cashier, was outside. There was a pillar between the advisor rooms and the cashier booths. I was usually sitting in the first booth. Could see the queue before we served them.

A few regulars used to hover behind the pillar and when the customer I was serving left, they jumped in. Both customers and cashiers pointed the queue was outside. "ooh its raining" "ooh its cold" were the excuses. "Everyone else has queued up outside" was my usual response.

Queueing for buses is generally fully pointless. How do you queue at a bus stop with 4 different buses going to different places? What are your achieving exactly other than extreme Englishness?

I had 3 women try and push Infront of us in a queue in a theme park to get to their friends. I told them they couldnt come past us and if they needed to be with their friends, the friends should come to the back to them. One tried to jump over the fence to skip the queue and was fortunately seen by someone who works there, and the 3 of them were escorted from the queue.

We go to our local theme park a lot as we have passes, drives me mad the amount of people who try and queue jump. Unfortunately, queuing is part and parcel of rides and if you have a condition that means you cannot queue, there is ride access pass. No excuse for rude and entitled pushing past people

Well it is. Why should you push in front of a queue when everyone has been waiting longer than you? This Karen thing is just a way for CF to attempt to asset their CFness.

dancinfeet · Yesterday 14:24

I had an elderly lady ask me if I minded if she could go in front of me in the queue at the supermarket, she was only carrying a couple of items so I said yes. As soon as I let her in front she turned and called her husband over with trolley piled high which they then started to unload into the conveyer at a snails pace.

I would definitely have told her that she was taking the piss and that I thought she only had a few bits.

I don’t understand the “I’m so cool” posters who trumpet that it would never bother them as the queue jumper may have an issue .

Apart from a few genuine mistakes, most people are fully aware that they are pushing in. Would these “non Karens” stand by benignly as a load of people sneaked past them at a theme park? They’d look right chumps as the line got longer and longer with them saying “Doesn’t bother me.”

Slightly different but I've been stuck in a queue with a learning disabled young person naking noises and really struggling to wait and people look and tut and do nothing.

Perhaps if someone is genuinely struggling to wait offer them a queue jump. I've done that and the relief on the carers face us priceless