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?

I do wish people would just stand in a normal line shaped queue - not well away from it. Also the closeness thing - was using public transport last week (unusual for me) and I swear the guy behind me, who was trying his best to push in, was actually bumming me. What a shame when my very heavy shoulder bag started to dig in and I had to hitch it up again, with a backward swinging motion, and it caused me to falter back in my heels. Get out of my personal bloody space! So freaking rude.

Sorry, does the word "random" now mean "annoying"? It acquires new meanings every day!

There's one of those near me I have to go through regularly, time for maybe 3 cars to go through and turn right. If I'm in front, as soon as the other lights start changing I sit there like a coiled spring, revving my engine like I'm about to perform a Grand Prix blast off.

My moan for today is the person ambling along doing 30 in a 60 zone who BRAKED as they began to ascend a hill.

It means when somebody is behaving in an unexpected strange way in this scenario.

Saves blocking things at the back (see: long car queues)

When those lift doors open and those inside are met with a sea of people standing on the outside directly in front of the doors, no one's budging, not putting two and two together that they need to move in order for you to get out so they can get in.

Because if someone runs into you from behind you’re in trouble- handbrake on means a pain in the neck but not much else. School friend killed many moons ago by a shunt on to the crossing she was on …the handbrake might have saved her.

I was at Pets at Home a couple of weeks ago, which for some reason attracts people who apparently are unfamiliar with the concept of queuing, waiting to pay when I felt something bump sharply into the backs of my legs. I turned around, outraged, to discover the culprit was a sad looking beagle with a cone on its head. Compromised proprioception is the only excuse for standing too close as far as I'm concerned.

Yes exactly. Why can't they stand a normal distance away? They shouldn't be breathing down your neck, or so far away that they don't even look like they're part of the queue. They're always the first to roll their eyes if asked if they're in the queue, or huff and puff if shock horror somebody would join the actual queue that they aren't part of!

I've noticed this at bus queues recently and was going to post about it!
It's odd behaviour. The bus stop is obvious but more often than not the first person in the queue stands at least 8 feet away from it. Then everyone else in the queue leaves loads of space in between them and the person in front of them. It makes a queue of 5 people really long and not very obvious.
I'm not one for jumping queues, but this makes me very tempted. Queue properly or don't be surprised if someone goes in front of you!

A lady in a mobility scooter did this in our local Asda which has an automatic gate thing at the entrance. She was completely oblivious to the near pile-up of customers behind her while she decided which direction to head off in.

Fair point. I was thinking of London Underground specifically where the gates don't need to shut and will just stay open if everybody keeps moving and slapping their cards down.
I should be more patient ...

Re: stopping at the top of escalators.

This was a fair few years ago now, DD (now 13) was about 2 or 3 and terrified of escalators so I always carried her. A woman of about ....70 or so (yes, this is relevant) saw her friend at the top who was about to go on the down escalator. They start chatting so I realise I cant get off and a queue starts to form behind the other woman. I ended up basically being shoved into her by the escalator despite saying "EXCUSE ME!!" several times. The people behind the other woman were pissed off and starting going past her and they both had a right go at all of us for being so rude. She said to me "You young people are so rude these days!" I was 41 so actually quite chuffed she said that, but I did say back "And you are rude for holding up so many people so you can have a chat" didnt go down well!

People that try to cross a road in a random spot when there’s literally zebra crossings or traffic light crossings metres away. It absolutely baffles me. Today I saw a lady walk past where you’d stand to cross at a zebra crossing and she walked a few steps and then stopped to cross!!! Hello there is a CROSSING it annoys me so much I’m that petty I don’t stop unless they’re at the crossing 😂

They're probably the same people who make a massive performance of packing their shopping at the till, special bags for specific things and only then decide to get their payment method out, the cashier and the queue standing/sitting there waiting like lemons.

They will be the same people who stroll across the driveway entrance to nursery as they take their kid to school next door with you so much as a glance if there’s anything turning in/out.

Point taken. It is unlikely to get that bad, but tbh if there were that many in a queue I’d either be asking for another check out to be opened, and maybe chuntering about lack of staff, or start a conga at the back as we snake around the shop.

This reminds me of cyclists without helmets and such like, wearing dark colours in dimly lit areas, and on main roads! Why, just why? Do they have a death wish?!

Admittedly not a queue but there's a lift I have to take most days as I'm unable to walk up and down stairs. Every single time, there are people standing directly outside the doors, smoking and/or vaping. Sometimes, they're just standing chatting. Although ground level and under cover, with a mass of other spaces for them to stand and smoke, they huddle in front of the lift doors and make me feel like I'm inconveniencing them when they have to move to let me through.

People at cafes and pubs who wait until they reach the cashier before looking at the menu. Rage. All the rage.

QR code ordering has been very therapeutic for me.

And when you cant see them until you are almost literally on top of them, YOU get the abuse from THEM! Happens a lot around here. Dark night, dark clothes, no lights, no helmet. But if I hit them it will be my fault?!

The worst for me is people that whilst looking directly at me still go to walk into me and I'm in my wheelchair.
On other occasions I've had grown adults walk backwards into me,they've gone to fall onto my lap and then tried to blame me.

It always makes me wonder how people manage to leave their homes without their brains?

The walking abreast on pavements really annoys me. Then they glare at you when you don’t move out of the way for them all!
I actually like it when it’s raining and I have my umbrella up. I purposely do not move. They soon learn to walk single file then!

I was going to say this. Means strange, weird. In the great book of queue statistics, it is quite a random act.

I don't know the mean, mode or median but I'm thinking 1% of people might consider this.

Round here, you'd just get your bag nicked 🤣

Oh god. Isn't the issue common sense?

A) it can lead to people not realising where the queue actually ends and going in front of the 'broken" but of queue thinking that's the back
B) it means an unnecessarily long queue, often getting in the way of people as it backs out more than it needs too.

Can't believe I've just had to spell that out...