To use my second language to gain an advantage in the Lidl queue?

[SerenYrWythnos]

I live in a town on the Welsh border. So much on the border that parts of my town are actually in England, but the Lidl is in Wales.

It's not a Welsh speaking area at all. Welsh is taught in schools but you don't hear it being spoken out and about - I honestly can't remember the last time I heard anyone speaking Welsh outside an educational setting.

But because it's in Wales, Lidl do all their store announcements in Welsh first, including the announcement that another till is opening and the number of the till.

I speak enough Welsh to know which till is about to open before it's announced in English so I just zoom straight over there when I hear it in Welsh. This gets me dirty looks from people who were ahead of me in one of the queues, but didn't twig which till was opening until it was announced in English. Lidl tends to have mega queues so getting in first at a newly opened till is a major win round here 😁

AIBU to take no notice and carry on being first at Till 5? Or should I wait until everyone has understood what's going on, or should I even give the people ahead of me a heads up?

They make the announcements, you are responding to them. Nothing wrong with that. Surely anyone living in Wales/on the border could learn the numbers one to ten if they wanted to?

Go for it, I also speak enough to understand til 5 is opening (it really isn't hard to pick up these things) so if they don't make the tiny effort to learn this tough on them!!!

you snooze you lose. Go for it I say

Nah fuck ‘em. They could learn Welsh if they could be arsed - or let’s face it, not even the whole language, just the Welsh for ‘till 4 is now opening’.

Let's ruin it for OP by all learning our numbers today so we can beat her. After me everyone.

Un (een)
Dau (die)
Tri (tree)
Pedwar (Ped-waar)
Pump (pimp)
Chwech (good luck)

That'll do, no Aldi has more than six right? Listen out for them and get to the front, go go go!

How can they be shopping in the same supermarket and not have picked it up by now? Surely after a few times they’d pick up what word meant what number?

So one, two and three are very similar to English anyway? 😆

Reminds me of that 70s kids’ programme with Mike Reid ‘Runaround’ - God I’m old 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yeah we were more or less on the same page for the first three numbers then we lose the plot after four.

My son does this for me in Lidl all the time, he picks out the part of the announcement that is the number faster than my brain processes each word. I love it.

No yanbu
Similarly, maybe I'm at Sainsbury's in Sheffield and most people are half asleep in the queue ahead, any till opening announcement is a free for all. You snooze you loose. Don't feel bad.

Lidl does my head in, regardless of in Welsh or English, all of that opening and closing the tills at the drop of a hat is bound to cause discontent when in combination with the UK queueing system. I normally stay at the one I am at regardless, and let anyone who has just a few things go before me. They must spend more time messing about with this than actually just keeping one or two lanes open?. When will they realise that most people from the UK like queueing, are happy to queue in an orderly manner, and do not want a "survival of the fittest" contest every time they go in to buy their lunch. I go because it is the nearest, and it has some good things for cheaper than the other supermarkets, plus I have to say their policy of giving things for free is quite good. But I am not keen on running the gauntlet of what is socially acceptable every time. Sorry I have rambled on, but I sort of get your point. xx

I would never be so rude tbh. If someone is in front of me and a new checkout opens I would say 'on you go'- o don't get the mad need to be first, I'm happy to wait my turn.

At my Lidl it wouldn't matter if you had an advantage as the till doesn't open until at least 5 mins after they've announced it so it's usually quicker to stay in the queue you are in.

On a similar theme though, it really annoys me when queuing in other supermarkets when the staff come and tell the people at the back of the queue to go to a newly opening till.

Nah, if theyre in wales and can’t understand un dau tri then that’s on them

I wish I understood Welsh

I'm Wales, lots of Welsh speakers, but I manage to get to the newly opening till quickly too. My Welsh is good enough to understand the announcements. Go for it, their loss.

I love this. Never change 😆

It's not your fault they haven't learned enough to understand "Till 5 is opening" in the language known to be used first for till opening announcements in the shop they use. If anyone has a problem, multiple language learning resources are available.

If they live in the English part then I don't see why they need to learn Welsh.

Small wins. Take 'em when you can.

It's a dog eat dog world out there op.

Oh girl, yanbu

BUT you would be unreasonable to not teach us Welsh for tills one to five!!

well they don’t need to learn it. Unless they want to get to the tills faster like OP