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'.

Yes a woman did it in an apple specialist store (not actually Apple). I said excuse me, we are stood here waiting (with a queue of people which you know, was a bit of a clue) and she said ‘pardon me’ in a very inconvenienced way to which I responded ‘no, I won’t.’ She was taken aback having been challenged and was very entitled, suggesting she wasn’t sure what she had done despite being presented with the facts. She looked me up and down and I gave her a Paddington hard stare. I have never been that confrontational before but honestly, some people are very entitled. However, I think Elsa said it best.. let it go

I don’t think I could get upset about a plane. You’ve got a seat. I’d rather be stood than cramped into a plane seat. I rarely queue, I generally wait for the end. Most of the time seats are allocated and I (usually) only carry the bare minimum of hand luggage (the stuff I’ll actually use in the flight). I find it baffling.

Always. I can't stand people thinking their time is more important than everyone else.

I quite enjoy it

I was once "called out" for pushing in at the priority line for the plain she even ran me over with her electric scooter while loudly saying these young ones pushing in its disgusting! Until I calmly told her I had booked assistance as I have arthritis, degenerative disease and a dislocating knee cap when ever it feels like especially on stairs she definitely felt embarrassed and said not all disabilities are visible and you don't have to be old to need help 😂

Yes, I do.
My personal favourite was, while waiting patiently to buy a ticket for a bus tour, a woman walked straight up to the seller. When I pointed out that I was next she said 'I just wanted to ask a question'.
I said I have waited my turn and so can you.

No! Absolutely not. I am British after all!

Not for planes or trains. And I think it’s nice to give the benefit of the doubt. People sometimes have good cause.

“Sorry, have you got special dispensation that lets you push in in front of all of us?”

I got in trouble once because I was at an event typically frequented by young trust fund types. Some young women decided they didn’t fancy waiting for the toilet queues and pretended they were going to be sick and ran to the front to push in. As it was clearly bullshit I stuck my foot out and they all fell over. 😂 I say ‘in trouble’, the security guard laughed and told me not to do that. They were all still making a fuss about it when I came out of the toilet and strolled away.

To be honest I think the ability to queue and maintain an orderly fair queue should be part of the citizen test and taught in schools.

An example I have is when DH took DD (then 12) to a Covid test centre for a test before school as we were flying out within the next 48/72 hours whatever it was. They got they before it opened so as not to miss morning registration and to their surprise there was a long queue. Got in line and waited some guy walks straight up to the front expecting to go in. All the ‘queuers’ were not happy but the person at the front handled it perfectly I think. Asked queue jumper very politely if they were here for a Covid test? Reply was ‘yes’. So he told them everyone else was there for that same reason and there was a queue and the back was down there. Queue jumper obliged and went to the back.

DH came back and told me the story and I was impressed. It doesn’t have to be a confrontational situation at all.

Yes

Man in the queue for the Ladies Fitting Room, obviously holding the place for someone. Arms draped with clothing and furtively looking out for whoever it was to return as he neared closer and closer to the front of the queue.
I said to him “Are you holding a place in the queue for someone?”, he replied with a shake of his head “no understand” with a thick accent.
“Oh yes you do” I said “and you need to be somewhere else!”
Multiple women at that point turned to him expressing the same sentiments….he then left!

Nearly always for standing in a queue - after waiting over an hour and a half in queue for passport checks at arrival airport last week - I challenged a couple who pushed in and told them to get to the back - everyone else was muttering about it but didn’t say anything - then thanked me when I did
Traffic queues are different if roadworks or lane merges it works best if we all let one vehicle in and keep it moving - that said I won’t allow in obvious chancers who scoot down the side right to the front and try and push in

But how much pain might she have been to queue at all? Have some empathy.

Had this a few weeks ago on a CalMac Ferry to Harris which has a self service cafeteria with much of the food cooked to order. The shutters are usually opened once the vessel has been secured for sea and moved off its berth. Signs show how passengers should queue and a queue of maybe ten people had formed.

As soon as the shutters opened a whole group of around 20 people dashed straight in. They were on an organised tour for which, I looked this up later, they had paid several thousand pounds a head. The tour organiser believed he'd had an arrangement with the purser for his people to have priority.

Yes, I am British.

Brits always respect the queue and if they dont, I know that everyone behind me agrees they should.

My local Tesco express,there are 2 marked queues, with a barrier in-between, one marked self service on the right, the other side is by the cashiers desk, a few weeks ago,both auto tills were in use, I had alcohol so elected to go to the cashier. There was a queue behind me. As I got to the cashier,a bloke came from the shop straight to the cashier, ignoring all the queue. I told him there was a queue and I was next. He said why hadn't I gone there then,he didn't give me chance. My late DM wouldn't say boo to a goose. She was born in the 30s,very much under my late fathers thumb. She had severe depression,was sent in the early 70s on an intensive therapy course 18 months assertion training. She was barely 5 ft tall. We went into a greengrocers,a bloke pushed in front of her, she whacked him on the head with a white cabbage, and said "I believe I was next", I still laugh thinking about it!

Standing in the queue for the loo in a London department store that has gone woke ( single sex toilets, in cubicles, but pee on the floor, you know what I mean) when this chap waltzed to the front , clearly thinking it was the usual arrangement - although the signage was clear. So I told him there was only one queue and he needed to get to the end of it. He did, but then sloped off with his tail between his legs.

The one that really gets me is the supermarket queue which you join because there is someone carrying only a few items in front of you then you get ambushed by their partner who has been lurking by the chewing gum rack with a full trolley. I do stand my ground with that one.

I often do. Sometimes it seems that the person is so self-absorbed that they havent noticed the queue.

Always call them out, even if they don't speak English and I have to gesticulate!
I did queue jump once but asked permission as my father who is in his mid eighties just couldn't stand easily in the easy jet priority boarding queue. I let people in if they ask and have a reason.

Try not to let things like that bother me. Also think I might be quite bad for jumping queues purely by not really paying attention haha

I was waiting to board a flight in Singapore recently- for people who don’t know, the security screening is at the gate. So when they open the boarding gate there’s horrendous queues.

Suddenly a lady came to the front of the huge line to cut in, at which point the person at the front started throwing a fit… awkward because they were allowed to be served first as they had gold status with the airline.

Person who called them out went absolutely red in the face and were mortified!

Although once I got accused of queue jumping at M&S at their self checkouts! Went around the front instead of queuing (pretty commonplace when There are ZERO people in line?) bizarre…

If it's in a shop or coffee place the staff should be aware of who is next in line and the order of the queue and should point it out if someone is in the wrong place or jumping the queue- it's part of their job. Normally people are quite polite and there's definitely a nice way of pointing out to someone if they have made a 'mistake'.

The other day my daughter was waiting patiently for her turn on a ride and a bigger boy pushed her and shoved in to go first, I said no, you need to wait your turn. The mum had a massive go at me that I wasn’t to tell her child what to do. I said no ideally you’d tell him not to shove a smaller child and wait his turn, as it’s your responsibility to teach your child manners. She went ballistic. No doubt he’ll grow into an entitled little shit 🙄

It depends on what the queue jumper looks like (i.e. will they beat the shit out of me if I say something). I've said in the past "excuse me, there's a queue over here".

In a queue to board a plane I'd be pissed off at them, but ultimately you're all going to the same place at the same time and, assuming it's one with pre-booked seats, it doesn't make any difference. My luck would be, they'd be an absolute arsehole about it and they'd end up in the seat next to me!