Get in the damn queue!

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Is anybody else irritated at people who stand miles away from the queue, so you think they're not in the queue? You either have to ask them if they're in the queue (if you're able to successfully get their attention), assume they're not, because why would they not be standing actually in it and walk past, or wait like an idiot behind them with a huge disjointed queue.

I'm also noticing loitering people blocking gateways, with no regards for anybody else who should need through. What are these people doing?

Anybody else want to partake in a rant at situations like this that irritate you?

It’s the people who walk out of a shop/cafe and then just stop in the doorway to have a wee think about where to go next, and you’re walking out behind them and have to emergency brake yourself before you head butt their back. Tops of escalators too! They annoy me more than the queue deceptors.

Yes, they just abruptly stop don't they, usually transitioning from quite a fast pace as well. Then there's the ones who insist on walking in a row, blocking paths walking at a snail's pace, when you're trying to get past.

People in queues who don’t move when the queue in front of them moves forward.

Yes!!! Recently I went to the pharmacy and this stupid man was stood about 8metres at least away from the queue next to the £1 section. I assumed he wasn't in the queue so got behind the person I thought was last in the queue and he moaned at me! I said " Sorry I didn't realise, you were really far away ". I wish I'd just bellowed "get in the bloody queue then nob!"

For me, it's people who get to the ticket barriers at the station, and only then start ferretting about in their bag looking for their ticket, blocking the barrier for anyone else.

The “Get inside a shop and stop” people are out in force at the moment. They then look surprised that other people want to enter the shop and barge them out of the way. By people, I mean me 😂

No spatial awareness at all. It’s their world and the rest of us are just in the way.

Ooh I know the ones I hate with a passion! You know when you’re at a traffic light that manifestly only lets 2-3 cars through each time? The people who check their phones or whatever the hell it is they do that distracts them and stops them actually paying attention, keeping up with the traffic flow and passing through the light on green. Only two cars get through the lights because these knobs weren’t paying attention and now everyone in the queue gets to wait even longer. Those are the people that irritate me! Thanks for the moaning opportunity!

A few years back I nipped into McDonalds for a quick lunch, and there was a lady stood back from the queues. I asked if she was in the queue abd she replied 'No, I am just standing here' so I went in front of her and got my burger. It only occurred to me later that she was probably being sarcastic, but hey ho!

I was just about to say the same. Logically I'm not sure why it bugs me, but it really does!

I had queue rage today. Was in one queue in supermarket and noticed the next queue had fewer items on it, so swopped. B One woman didn’t have a basket or trolley, just a carrier bag, so I presumed she had a couple of items in there. However, next minute, her husband with two kids turned up with a trolley full of food. Grrrr.

Another pet hate is that there was a child sitting in this trolley, and she looked far too big to be sitting in it (I know mn doesn’t seem to mind kids in trolleys, but it irritates me, and this child could hardly fit in, it wasn’t a toddler or pre-schooler).

(I moved queues and found one that moved quite quickly).

Adults who walk 3 or 4 abreast on pavements, in shops etc. Usually ridiculously slowly. No spatial awareness whatsoever.

Yep, was going to say this. They cruise soooo slowly up to traffic lights you know you aren't going to make it through. 10 minutes later when they finally change to green, Billy slow bollocks takes 20 minutes getting his brain into gear before slowly crawling away again. Guaranteed to be in front of me at 17 mph for the next 10 miles 😡

Just presume they aren’t.

A woman left her bag in the post office queue. I explained that's not how queues work and that I was not moving behind her. She yelled to stop talking to her. So random.

Also when in traffic and leave 2/3 car spaces when moving at 2 miles an hour.

And @ruethewhirl

The queue does not move any quicker just because the person in front likes their space. You won't get to the front any sooner.

People who wander slowly side by side through the aisles, so one person will be pushing the trolley and their spouse/companion/whoever is walking beside them, both at a snail's pace but taking up the entire space so that nobody else can pass. Walk behind each other and keep to one side!

People who stop at the top or bottom of an escalator to study their phone so everyone piles up behind them. People who stand on the left on escalators on the underground.

Oh you're not one of those people that constantly nudges you my the back with their trolly because I've let more than a 5 cm gap appear between me and the person in front....or even worse when I'm hanging back slightly while they do their pin number so they don't think I am trying to steal it.

The older I get, the more I realise I basically hate everyone.
People who pack away all their shopping at the supermarket checkout before they deign to look for their purse/phone in order to pay (because who could have foreseen they’d need to pay??) and then — obviously — have to put said purse/phone away, zip up their bag etc etc before picking up their shopping and going…
People who passive-aggressively stop and expect you to walk around them when you’re both walking in different directions on a street, rather than doing the socially acceptable, mutually accommodating dance where you each try to move out of the other’s way.
People who park half (or occasionally totally!) on pavements with no consideration for pedestrians/parents with buggies/wheelchair users.
People who park with no consideration for anyone else, full stop.
People who speak too loudly to their dog/child when out, in that performative parenting/pet-owning way.
People who expect me to love their dog/child intruding on my space.
People who don’t apologise for their dog/child intruding on my space.
People who insist on listening to anything in public on loudspeaker.
People who don’t say please, thank you or sorry in situations where I would say one/other of the above.
People who don’t accept my apology where I’ve had occasion to say sorry… (eg, because my dog/child has intruded on their space…)
I could go on…

Agreed, especially the socially acceptable dance

Yes, what is it with these people, and why are they joined at the hip (literally)?

Oh god, DH did this the other day. I was a bit behind and saw a poor teenager almost collide with him as he came to an abrupt and unexpected stop and yes he had been moving quite quickly up to that point, so teenager had built up some speed. I went all Sybil Fawlty and said ‘Oh for God’s sake Basil (ok he’s not called Basil)!’ And then apologised to the teenager with ‘I’m so sorry my husband appears to be a fool’. He doesn’t make a habit of it though (not yet anyway).

I walked straight into the back of the woman who played Deidre in Corrie in urban outfitters about 20 years ago when she stopped dead in the door way! She proper glared at me