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?

The lay out of Costa annoys me. Having the food in the fridges in the queue. So you have a family of 5 deciding whether to have food and then what to get. Then it’s just you who just wants a standard coffee. And you don’t know whether to go ahead of them because they’re sort of in the queue sort of not. Most people let you go in front but it’s the oblivious ones. In which case they probably wouldn’t notice me going ahead. But it’s the ethical politeness of it.

Hahaha when I read this, in my head I read it as if there was a comma after the word wee 😃😃

initially I was wondering how often you see people seeing in shop doorways 🫣🫣

Happened earlier today in a shopping centre toilet. I followed a group of three people out who stopped in the toilet doorway and had a discussion about which shop they were going to next. They looked surprised when I said "excuse me" as I wanted to be past.

Most people get on my tits. It's why I'm a hermit.

You're either overthinking this, or I'm just rude 😂
For me, either you're in the queue or you're not. If you are standing 2 meters away.from the queue then you're not in the queue.

I only ask when I'm not sure if there is a queue/where the queue is.

Omg this. Or those who stand in the aisle and block it while they put their bags/ coats and god knows what else in the rack above so that nobody behind them can get to a seat then everyone who has poured onto the train through the doors at the other end of the same carriage have all managed to board the train from the doors at the other side and get a seat so now all the seats are taken and I now have to stand up despite probably being one of the first people to board the train (behind the twat that blocked me) So infuriating!

Just get in your damn seat and then put your luggage in the racks above when everyone else has got on the bastard train and found a seat!!!

The parents on the school run who don't seem to have anywhere to be after they've dropped their child off...the ones who walk out the school and up the pavement in groups of at least four, chatting away while moving at the pace of a snail. All the time I'm thinking 'get out the fucking way I've got to be at work at 9!!'

Yes theses folks are the most annoying!
Guess what? The cashier still won't serve you until the person ahead is finished!
Just wait. If you are in a hurry perhaps leave more time in the future. ⏱

And at the bottom of the escalator!!! "Hmmm, should I go right? Should I go left? Or should I stand there like an idiot while people are coming off a rolling staircase right into my back?"

My mum used to say to people not queueing properly "Queueing is a physical activity, are you in the queue?"

With things like bus queues, I have no hesitation in moving in front of these people, particularly if it means I can get in the bus shelter and/or sit down. I'm still perfectly happy for them to get on the bus ahead of me. To be fair, I don't think I've ever come across anyone who objected to me doing that.

Why do some couples both have to stand in the queue? Is the husband like security detail for his wife, in case someone decides to steal her shopping?
It makes the queue twice as long and in God's name does he have to jangle the coins in his trouser pockets whilst standing there?

It's always older couples as well ( I am not being ageist, I am as old as dust myself,) but I am quite capable of shopping by myself without an escort!

Just reading this made me rage

We're incredibly lucky to live on a perimeter road of one of London's beautiful parks, so people cycle to the park and then leave them on my street to walk around the park. The amount of times I've opened my front door to find four or five line bikes just piled at the bottom of my stairs. I report every.single.one

I lost my shit with two grown adults in the middle of abandoning them the other day. I'm able bodied and I don't need a pram (for a baby, or myself) but I can't imagine how annoying it must be for those who aren't/do.

I am hoping more boroughs will ban them soon.

People.

All of them. 🤣

Probably the same people who linger by a zebra crossing, so you're not quite sure if they're intending to cross or not.

@GrandHighPoohbah we're in Hackney and there would be actual riots if they did, but I can dream. I'm literally sitting have a nice glass of wine, trying to get over a rough day in peace, and I can see three just left in stupid places. It's even worse on Sunday mornings when everyone cycled home at 3am. ARGH.

Separate point, I adore my country-abiding DM but when she comes to visit and we get the tube I now grab her hand and essentially drag her along when we get off. She's the kind of step out of the carriage and then ponder for 30 seconds, even when I tell her to just follow me.

I also hate the people in busy shopping centres who just stop dead in front of you and you have no way of getting past them because there’s people coming the other way!
Or those who get in front of you in a busy shopping centre and walk in a line of about 3 or 4 and just slowly saunter along blocking anyone from getting past them!

Somebody shouted at me the other week that I pushed in front of them. They were standing over the other side of the shop. It was insane. They weren’t even polite. Actually shouted.

People who assume they know better. For example, waiting in a queue for a cashpoint, there are 2 but one is broken so everyone queuing at the working one. Inevitably, every other person comes up, quizzically peers at the broken cashpoint and enquires, is this one not working? Yes, yes it is, I've just chosen to stand here waiting like a lemon and not use it.

Or people who press the traffic light or lift buttons that are already lit up because, hey, you know what? I pressed it when I arrived!!

I had this today at the supermarket,so annoying,a great big trolley blocking the whole section I just pushed it out the way.I take no prisoners when I’m shopping😂

People who stand to the side in bus queues, just why?!! There's a reasonably straight queue and then one person standing 3 feet off to the side and they don't even take their proper place when the bus arrives and the queue starts to move, just shuffle along next to the queue but not actually in it 🤷🏻‍♀️

I get irritated when I’m on a train that’s pulling into a station and there’s someone hammering at the button for the door before the train has even come to a stop. It’s not going to open until it lights up, numbnuts. And then people who want to get on as I’m getting off who won’t give me the 5-10 seconds I need to disembark before forcing their way in.

Those people who absolutely want that space next to you in a 3/4 empty car park .
I had one wave insistently and aggressively at me in a car park today to get out of her way .
I was just going to wait for her and tell her how she was rude and needs to calm down but my companion said save your breath , those folks are always that way.
I still wish I had said something though.

Agree. If you're in the queue, get in the queue. Also, people who don't understand they have to wait for others to get off a train before they get on.