To think this woman needs to stop jumping the queue every day?

[susanandlucypevensie]

My child's nursery has a queuing system and drop off can be painfully slow. You have to queue along the narrow path that runs from the car park at the back, down to the front door, with a fence the runs all along the path, then from the front door there is a gate that opens out onto the street and you can go. The manager on the door is an older lady and likes to take her time chatting to each parent, asking how the child is, getting a full handover, and if you don't get near the front nice and early you can be stood there for 20 minutes or more.
The path where we queue is wide enough for someone to stand, with or without a buggy.
There is one woman that turns up every day with one of those big, wide, side-by-side buggies for her two kids. She can't get it down the narrow path to queue, so she just goes straight to the front door to hand her kids over, where the manager will talk to her at length about each kid individually for ages. Today, she also wanted to discuss her funding so this took even longer.
AIBU to think she should bugger off with her double buggy and queue like everyone else? carry or put the one year old in a sling and get the 2 year old to walk or stand in the queue? It already takes forever and I find it really unfair she gets to queue-jump.

Well not no one, I did actually, and many other mums I knew. I've never known anyone to have a double buggy and I have a lot of mum friends! In fact my second child was never ever in a buggy - at all! No 2yr old should be "running loose", there are safety reins for that.

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Sounds like she had the right idea tbh. More fool the rest of you passively queuing for 20 minutes, that's absolutely bonkers.

When ds3 was in daycare there were 3 workers who would have 7 or 8 kids through the door within a minute at opening time. And one ultimate pain in the arse who would start yapping to each parent, whilst a queue built. Not even always about the child, about random stuff which was absolutely infuriating. After the second time, I stopped waiting and would march past the queue to the door and say 'I'm SO sorry to interrupt but can I just pop ds in? I really have to run. Here's his bag. In you go, have a great day ds! Lovely, thanks!'.

The other parents would then follow suit and do the same until the pain in the arse worker had to cut her chat short...worked a treat.

If she can't fit to queue then I don't think she has many options. Personally, I'd be following her lead in the hopes that the queue system falls apart.

No, that woman is being extremely ignorant if she can see there is a queuing system and she is jumping the queue daily. Having said that that system is unsustainable and I would be tempted to bring a large buggy myself or run in and say - I can’t stay and chat today so I’m just dropping the child off. So I think the queuing system needs to be abandoned. I’d raise it with principal because that is a nightmare and that kind of check in doesn’t need to happen every morning and delay everyone - that’s what parent teacher meetings are for

She might have a special permission to push to the front from the manager. If she doesn't though, it's out of order. Maybe you should just ask her, or point out have you noticed there's a queue??
What would happen if you pushed to the front?

It depends on how far she walks

She can’t get in the queue. The path they queue on won’t take a double buggy. That’s why she goes to the front door rather than queue from the back of the building

Does it occur to you that she is using the double buggy on purpose, to jump the queue? I any case, the chats are too long, because people have to go to work [or not]. tell her off. I would.

Definitely not being unreasonable. I bloody HATE queue jumpers - and that's one-offs! There is no way I'd put up with this and, given your reaction, I'm wondering why you - or others - haven't spoken up. Also, like other responders, I'd be asking the nursery to think about changing a system that appears to be extremely unfair. Yes, it's nice the lady at the door asks about the children. But I'm left wondering why, if she works in the place, doesn't she KNOW how the kids are doing?

Just all crowd round the entrance and shove children in

Tell woman on the door to text you if she wants to know anything and then leave.

I’m with the woman with the kids. Just all go to the front and push children in

If they can do it in half the time when she isn’t there then maybe get that person to do it.

Why aren’t there 2 or 3 people getting children inside