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?

damned queue

The dam queue is strictly for beavers only. 🙊

Stoppers. People who literally just stop. Inside shops, outside shops, at the ticket barrier.

But someone else can step in front, nearly happened in Tesco the other day because some twit didn't move forward and somebody else went to join the end of the queue not realising the queue was all the way back.

It led to a lot British apologies apart from the one fucker who should have just moved the fuck forward!!

You don't have to stand on the person, but an 8ft gap is going to cause confusion!

And the people who for some reason sit on a flat bit of road with their handbrake on, and haven't anticipated that they'll need to pull off soon, so lights change/gap in traffic, and they're putting the car into gear, releasing the handbrake then pulling out instead of being ready to go straightaway!

This may be London-centric, but people who just abandon their Lime or similar bikes in the middle of the pavement with no regard whatsoever for people with visual impairments or mobility problems, wheelchair users, people with pushchairs. Especially if it's fallen on its side! Slowly being tackled by local councils, I believe, insisting they have to be docked in designated areas. Long overdue.

People who wait ages for a bus and then don’t get their oyster out until they are in front of the driver, which they then can’t find.

People who just walk at a weird, slow pace, regardless of what's in front of them and continue walking at that pace even when they walk into something. I had someone do this to my car once. He just walked out into the road and walked into the side of my car while I was waiting at a traffic light and had the nerve to tell me off!

I think you're describing my dm there!😂

Reading this thread has made me realise it's all people, pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, and children (let's throw those in for good measure as well) that are all just bloody annoying!!

Exactly this. Just get in the bloody queue, it looks like they're hanging back waiting for somebody, or just faffing/loitering. This is even more annoying on the school run. "No, the teacher cannot let little Timothy out when she cannot actually see you!"

People who spend their train journey chatting to friends, and then get off the train at the station and immediately stop to check their phone for directions, instead of actually walking along the platform and allowing the rest of the carriage to actually get off as well.

My irritation is shoppers who browse the shelves for ages at the supermarket with their full trolley lined up against the shelf, blocking the whole section.

Most the time I ask someone if they're in the queue its a 'no, go on' and I think 'then why are you standing in the way of the queue'. Never had it the other way round.

The gate thing does my head in at school. The 'chatty' mams seem completely unaware they block everyone else and they always stop or walk ridiculously slow in the NARROWEST bits. The a whole huge open area yard thats 50% empty, so why are you stopped in 1 of the 4 gate ways and/or the small narrow path in between the gates.

Just anyone who uses a bloody Lime bike in general. They are an awful blight on the urban landscape.

My irritation: The impatient hares, queue police and pavement police, who moan about us tortoises who like a bit of space.

I have name changed for this because cancer does not define me and I don't refer to it but it is pertinent to this reply. I have stage 4 incurable cancer (to look at me, you would never know) and use a walking stick to keep me steady. Due to low SATS and fatigue I am very slow, but I still have the right to use what little mobility is left to me. I am usually out with a supporting friend, who walks alongside me as my safety net. Obviously they have to match my speed (or lack of it). In my head I am running at the pace I used to when my health was fitter.

I am NOT apologising for my right to slow-lane pavement space. If I see a potential 'barger' heading towards me, I take a strong stance and stop moving altogether because if I lose my balance, the cancer in my bones will probably mean broken bones if I fall. The amount of folk, usually entitled men, who do make bodily contact and then turn to see what 'tank' refused to move for them, is rare, but not unknown. I am sure my stand-still for just a few seconds may further irritate the folk behind me.

Also being neurodiverse, I loved 'social distancing' during Covid: I enjoy a queue-gap. As I said further up, the queue won't move any faster and you won't get to the front in a quicker time frame. So yes, I am probably that person who others find incredibly irritating.

My further irritations are the 'tutters' as they breeze on by, or try and shuffle me forward by invading my body space in a queue. 😂

To be fair, in a pharmacy he may have had some nasty ailment that he didn't want to inflict on others - or, he may have been wary of contracting someone else's due to ailments of his own.
Or, he may just have been a knob😉

The pavement parkers grind my gears. I walk with a cane and it makes my life difficult. I can only imagine how it must feel to be pushing a pram or trying to navigate a wheelchair in these situations.

People who don't understand that queues can go around corners - cashpoint machines are the worst for this. Queuers just block the whole bloody pavement (and road!) rather than queue down the street keeping out of everybody's way.

People who stop suddenly at the top of the stairs/escalator to check the map on their phone.

People who stop in downways to take photos- I actually shouted at somebody in the British Museum for this earlier in the week.

And the worst people ... People who wait at ticket barriers for the gates to close before presenting their ticket. They don't have to close before they open! Keep moving!

Where I am if you don’t wait for the gates to close before presenting your ticket it often causes the barrier to malfunction altogether.

If we are talking about queues the one that drives me mad is when theres 1 till on etc... and a huge queue forms. You get in line and have been stood in it for 20 minutes and your next behind the twat in front buying a lifetime supply of food and/or returning 1 tomato without a receipt to the trainee kid.

Suddenly a new cashier appears to finally opens the next till and they say 'next' and within a millisecond before the cashier has reached the till usually some utter fuckwit from the back of the queue (or sometimes not even in the queue but someone who was just walking that way) has bowling balled down like a lightning bolt to grab the first spot.

Mate, she said 'next' as in the 'next in the long line that have been waiting patiently for a staff member to come' not any cheeky fucker who feels like Linford Christie and thinks they don't have to wait like everyone else has.

Then, when you say ‘Excuse me’, so you can try to get to the item you want, they glare at you, as if you have no right to be in the same space as them. If people would put their trolley at the end of an aisle or somewhere unobtrusive, it would be easier for everyone.

They do it on trains as well. They get on, block the aisle, and stand there while deciding which seat they want.

They totally block the people behind from getting on and sitting down, and people that came in the other door and file in and quickly all take a seat.

the ditherer will then sit down in the only sets left, leaving everybody who was stuck behind them without a seat.

All the time op. I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. I stood behind a man in a long queue in a shop a few weeks ago, a woman was stood away from the queue for about 10 minutes and as the queue started to go down she started edging her way in front of my so I started moving closer to the man I’d been stood behind because I thought she was pushing in. She then said to me “sorry I was in front of you”. It then almost became an argument because I’d been stood behind the man the whole time since I’d arrived. I’d clocked the woman stood opposite me but she wasn’t actually in the queue. It turned out she was also in the queue and had been waiting before me behind the same man but she had decided to stand away from the queue to watch for her friend coming out of the changing room!!
If you’re in a queue then stay in the damn fucking queue not 3 metres away from it!!

I had some Vietnamese (relevant) friends who would change shoes at the point of going out into the garden or back into the house. They'd just stop dead & slip off their indoor slippers & slip on their outdoor pods in one swift movement, while I inevitably cannoned into the back of them. No matter how many times it happened, I always forgot they were about to do it. My fault entirely.

But people who walk into a shop & immediately stop in the doorway to look around them? Hanging's too good etc.😂

I had a rum (and rude!) woman in front of me at the supermarket a few years ago. She emptied her trolley onto the conveyor belt. She only had six or eight items but no problem if she wants to use a trolley.

However, having emptied her trolley onto the conveyor belt, she stuck her empty trolley out behind her with her arm outstretched. I assumed she was pre-occupied and just hadn’t noticed me behind her, so I nicely asked if she could move her trolley so I could get to the belt to begin to offload my shop. But instead of the “Oh, yes, sorry - I was daydreaming” apology I was expecting, she very firmly said No 😮

I was really confused and explained I just wanted to begin to put my shopping on the belt like normal, but couldn’t reach it with her trolley held out behind her like that. She then told me I wasnt allowed to put my shopping on the conveyor belt until hers had all been scanned and she’d paid for it! was momentarily lost for words! Then, I told her how she ought to learn how supermarkets work. I also pointed out that she had happily put her shopping on the belt behind the customer’s in front of her before theirs had all been scanned and paid for! Bloody hypocrite!

Some people are just weird and rude.