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?

Or the two women in front of me who got to the bottom of the escalator last week, stepped off and just stood there so I ended up banging into the back of them. No awareness of their surroundings or common sense whatsoever.

This but in the supermarket- especially when they’ve waited in a queue. Drives me berserk - especially men pat-patting themselves down to locate their wallet. Do people not realise they’ll have to pay for their stuff!

Line up the handle of the trolley with the end of the belt. They can't get near it then.

Covid was marvellous for stressed hilarity at our local Asda...

So the arrows are going up down in the aisles but by the tills they just pointed from entrance to exit.

So people have gone up the penultimate aisle and down the last one, but... Give me strength, because the arrow is still pointing toward the back wall there's a massive queue forming on the last aisle behind the idiot who won't move even though they can see a row of empty tills.

I didn't need anything from last aisle so just went straight to a till and there was uproar! We've been queuing here for 20 minutes! How dare you?!

Well, you see that arrow there? The one stopping you from walking to an empty till, keep following it then. That's right, straight through the freezer, the brick wall, on to the street and queue for Costa next door! Eejits!

It's not like the staff helped. Ooh nobody at the tills, where could they all be? I don't care 🤣

It's the same where I live and we have e-scooters too which are also flung on the ground blocking narrow pavements. Both are an utter menance to people with who have visual problems and parents with buggies and of course the less mobile who have to manovere a way round them. The bikes and the scooters are mainly ridden on the pavements and us pedestrians have to leap out of their way as they power along. I have even been sworn at for getting in the way!

housethatbuiltme · Today 18:28

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.

Ah, the Laldi experience!

That was me.at the weekend. However in my defence I was searching for Marks and Spencers extra choclatly chocolate covered custard creams. And they are worth the search.

this has the potential to be a new competitive sport,

I travel a lot and I have to say, the penchant for queuing in Britain is fantastic. Not everyone does it properly all the time, but I thank you all SO MUCH for doing it mostly right most of the time.

Latin America.... chaos. Very poor queue etiquette.

Morocco... the worst. Just arrived in Tangeir. Checking into the hotel. Woman sitting on the sofa in the lobby area, I assume she's with a man who is being served. I queue behind him. He's done, I move forward. She appears in front of me gesturing that she's next. How tf was I to know? No queue whatsoever.

Same hotel, checking out. I'm queueing. 2 staff serving. 2 new staff appear further along the counter. Instead of calling for the next person waiting, two men come through the door and walk right up to them and they get served. I just slapped my key card on the counter, said "I'm not just standing here for decoration you know" and left. If they can't serve people in order, I'm not gonna wait for them. Massive queue rage that visit.

You can’t ime till you have finished and paid for the items or is there a way round this

😂 Always a man scratching his head/balls/arse, and lurking in the inbetween door area in Asda, Morrisons you name it, and they don't move! "Get the hell out of the way I need a basket." They are always the same ones that look at stuff aimlessly in random aisles, with no intentions of buying it. They just wander about, night of the living zombies I swear!

People who can't park properly on my road and leave half a car space between them and the next car so you lose even more room to park. It especially grinds my fears (no pun intended) when they don't even live in my road and leave their car badly parked for weeks on end.. grrrrrr

I had the outside lane hogger on my way home tonight. I was coming up to my exit so I indicated and moved over and the wanker moved straight in front of me. So he wasn't merely a lane hogger but a sexist arse of a man who couldn't allow himself to be overtaken by a woman.

You can't pack your stuff if you're using one of the self checkouts that has a conveyor belt but I'm talking about the small ones that you'd use if you just had a basket of items.
Your basket goes at one side, you scan and then put the item at the other side, I just have a bag waiting at that side and put things straight into it.

Queues to leave the bus. When I was younger (not that long ago?!) you’d let someone in front of you get out their seat and join the queue out of politeness. Now everyone just barges past trying to get off quickest. And, though not queue related, I can’t stand it when people allow the sound of their phone or iPad/etc to be heard. It’s so anti-social!

Where has common courtesy gone?!

These people are a gift for fare dodgers. The weird loiterers in busy tube stations are watching for people with tickets and/or who seem unsure, and follow them through the barriers.

I was going to say this - people that insist on standing an inch away from your back at the checkout, it won't make you get served any quicker, ignoramus 😑

The too close v. too far away queue argument is weird, it's not one thing or the other. There is a happy medium of queuing where you're evidently in a line but not nuzzling the person in front's neck.

MN is, as ever, a place of extremes.

Wandsworth have banned the stupid inconsiderate abandoning of these bikes wherever these lazy people feel like. Hurrah for Wandsworth!

Ugh...but the opposite is worse! Why the fuck are you breathing down my neck, it's not going to make the queue go faster!!

Don't get me started, How about the child sitting in the seat behind you on a long flight.
Banging, poking, kicking... hard for ever.
I stood up & said loudly, this flight is 8 hours long, are you going to allow your kid to carry on for the whole flight? because things could get really messy.
Mother did not apologize, kid did calm down, lots of whispering & disgruntled noises.
grrr

I find it gets upset and starts bleating on about the item in the bagging area (I.e bag) so I wait and pack afterwards

People who don't say please and thank you when asked something in a queue in a coffee shop. " Would you like a glass?" No. "Would you like chocolate sprinkles on that ?" No. "Americano with hot milk (PLEASE needed there) ". They arent young and 'cool' they're my age ( 59) and would have been brought up say it and not got anything without using those words. Really odd. "No thank you." " Could I have.....please". So simple to say.

I did this the other day, sorry! I had a basket and only meant to get a couple of bits so put the carrier at the bottom of the basket. Then ended up getting a lot more so when it came to loading it I couldn’t get to my carrier, so had to scan everything then put it in the carrier. If it helps I was annoyed at myself too

Yabu not to ask them if they're in the queue or not.