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?

My ticket will not work unless I wait for the barrier to close, which is just as annoying for me. It’s either wait a millisecond for the barrier to close, or wait several seconds while I wave my phone at the barrier getting more and more annoyed before giving up and stomping over to the attended ones, pushing through all the people behind me.

Aaaaaa! Absolutely - overspill from the pubs, on the pavement, and the only way is to step into the road - and they are oblivious!!!! Especially in London (Great Titchfield Street)

It depends on the behaviour of the people in the queue. If they are puffing on a vape or cigarette in a bus queue, then maybe you don’t want to be near them.

Omg I needed this thread today. People who don't look where they're going and seem surprised when they walk into you. People sitting in the outside lane on a dual carriageway or motorway going less than the speed limit - just WHY?! Finally, people who push past you while saying 'sorry, can I just...' instead just saying 'excuse me please' and giving you a chance to move. When this did this pushing through saying 'sorry' become a thing?! 🤷‍♀️ phew! Rant over 🤣

Yeah me too 😂. Even worse are the people who gather in a large group by the doorway, or entrance to an aisle just chatting to one another, whilst being oblivious to people needing to get through the crowd. And they're annoyed when you have to raise your voice to say "excuse me please" 🙄

I'm getting flashbacks to my queue rages at my old job! I used to work in a very busy retail outlet which had regular massive queues and a row of tills.

My biggest bugbear was the ones not being served yet, but first in the queue, looking every bloody where except for the tills. Up at the ceiling, facing the back of the shop, twiddling with items on the till points. Absolutely no spacial awareness whatsoever. I used to have no voice left at the end of my shift shouting "Is anyone wanting to be served?". Then queue members 2,3 & 4 looking at you like your'e the one in the wrong with a "do something then, I'm waiting" glare on their face.

Don't even get me started on drivers not giving way when the obstruction is on their side and steaming towards you anyway!

Eurgh, people! Rant over!

Yes!! They have the "hard done to <sigh> look" don't they, when it is infact those individuals being the CF's in the first place.

I had some spectacular queue rage yesterday. Busy train station and the usual mad dash for the train as they announce the platform with three minutes until departure. My ticket is playing up so I join the queue at the staffed barrier. Just as I get to the front a woman appeared at my side from nowhere and waved her card in the staff members face asking to get through. When I pointed out there was a whole queue of people waiting and she should join it, the rather haughty response was “I’ve already stood in a queue today”. I didn’t realise that standing in one queue exempted you from all the others. I’ve been doing life wrong!

Has anyone mentioned the swimmers who

stop half way down the pool to chat with their friend/s

stop at the end of the pool to chat with their friend/s

stop at the other end of the pool to chat with their friend/s

swim slowly down the length chatting to their friend

Fine it is a family swim time, but when it is lane swimming time it is for anti social bastards like me who just want to get their lengths in not socialise. And you bet your bottom dollar they are the people who boast that they “ go swimming three times a week” but probably only actually swim for about five minutes each time. And don’t get me started on the muscle stretchers and goggle adjusters, who always have to have a bottle of water poolside in case they dehydrate themselves with all the posing.

Someone told me that they deliberately wait until amber to stop the car behind them. They see it as entertainment. I think a lot of people do it on purpose.

People who listen to music/watch films/have conversations on their phones in public without speakers are worse than ALL of the above combined - and the above all annoy me a lot.

I wish TFL would start a campaign against it instead of all their ridiculous 'in hot weather bring water' bollox they bombard you with

Life is just awful in general 😪

Men - and it always is men - who make a big deal of overtaking you at a fast walk and then dawdle along at a snail's pace just in front of you. If you walk past them they will overtake you again.

At this point, I cross the road and walk on the other side.

Yep, this one enrages me too.

WAKE UP and get a move on!!!! 🤬

People who create what I call a bottleneck in supermarket aisles or other shops by grouping together and preventing access to any of the shelves!

move, assholes!

Omg Aldi and Lidl,the whole point of the speedy checkouts is that you put your goods on the conveyor belt, they whizz it through,you stand at the end and shove it back into your trolley,pay and then proceed to the packing area and put it in your bags.The amount of people who stand at the checkout and slowly and precisely put their shopping straight in their bags so the cashier has to keep stopping for them to catch up.Go to bloody Tesco..

Now I use billy big balls/ bollocks but that is now a new saying that I am using. Billy slow bollocks. 🤣🤣🤣

People, often students for some reason, who don't put their meal-deal or whatever on the belt but hug it to themselves like a childhood teddy then hand it to the cashier. Just put the fuckers on the belt as soon as there's space so I can put mine on, you knob-end.

People who don't put the divider down behind the last of their items, making me stretch for a divider with a sarcastic "EXCUSE ME" and slamming it down on the belt.

Loose men (it's always men). A random man, generally 60+ (this is relevant), loitering in no particular aisle, perusing the shelves without really looking. There is a corresponding woman in there somewhere, doing the actual shopping but for now, he's redundant. His role is to drive, probably pay, load the bags into the car and drive home. Age is relevant because I haven't noticed this so much in younger couples who either shop together or the woman is perfectly able to drive and pay for herself and the man is quite happy to do the actual shopping, even if it includes nappies and tampons.

Women (it's always women) of 2 or more generations with one trolley so you think they're only doing one shop. Get to the checkout and they proceed to do the "that's mine, that's yours" dance as they divide the load up into multiple shops so when you thought you were 2nd in the queue, you're actually 4th. Bonus points if one or more pays for their shop cash and counting out the small change.

When I'm queuing to use a self service checkout and waiting for the people who scan their items, pay and THEN retrieve a carrier bag and slowly start to pack everything.
NO! Just bloody pack your items as you go. Scan your milk and then put it in a carrier, then scan your bread and put that in the carrier too. It's not bloody difficult!

Agree - also dislike groups of people (usually tourists) who congregate at the top or bottom of a moving escalator on the underground as you end up being rammed into them by the commuters on the steps behind you as they can’t see them until they land on top of you.

I appreciate they are visitors, but most countries have escalators… surely it doesn’t take more than one brain cell to move far away from the escalator once you have disembarked?

And conversely people who are so close you can feel their breath on your neck. I am a leave a gap person, it doesn't make any difference. Not talking a huge gap.

People who seem unable to operate/function on their own; the one's that don't know it are the worst....needing to ok it with a,b,c first....relying on x,y,z before they can consider going 'fishing', etc, etc, etc.. get scared if DH/DP is 'away' and someone has knocked on the door is a favourite irk of mine.

Although, with age I have overall become a lot more mellow, it still doesn't stop me from noticing even more what a bunch of scaredy cats so many humans are.

People are just a pain in the arse. Myself included. Pet hate: the person behind you in the supermarket who begins unloading their trolley load onto the conveyor belt when half your shopping is still in the trolley, and gives you about 3 inches of space to fit it all in. That won't get my groceries through any faster, pal. Back off.

But while we're at the checkout, I never really understand the complaints about people reaching for their purse/wallet/phone to pay after they've packed the shopping. You can't pay for it until it's been scanned, and I don't see how having your method of payment in one hand at all times could speed up the packing process.

🤣 Yes! In the doorway of the supermarket.
Just inside, no leeway, no legroom. It is like they've wondered where they are and stopped in confusion. Set down by aliens.

They're not bloody confused, and they weren't set down... they've taken that moment to plan their shopping list.

Don't mind me, I'll work around you!!! Which gets you a filthy look.
Which gets them a death stare.

People who are the first ones having to stop at a red traffic light then get impatient and start edging their car closer and closer to the line thinking the lights are going to go green any second but they don’t. I mean what’s the fucking point, you aren’t going to make them go green sooner by edging your car further and further up to the line!!!