How do you deal with queue jumpers?

lol, it doesnt happen that often with me so when it does i just let them get on with it. usually they dont even realise and if they did actually do it on purpose then good luck to them, theyre obviously so stuck up telling them to get to the back wouldnt change a thing.

what does annoy me is when people pull out of a junction on me nearly causing a crash then go 10mph
 
I say "excuse me there's a queue", they say sorry and go to the back of it.

Stoke is hardly a nice area, wth kind of ghetto are you all living in?
 
bloodline76 said:
A woman did this at my daughters school. When we collect our children we line up and wait for the kids to come up. This woman just walked up the side and straight to the front of the queue and collected her child. I was not in a good mood at the time and asked if she saw the other 20 people lining up politely in a queue. She muttered something to herself and went on without saying anything.

Ever since then she has queued up like the rest of us.
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Why do you have to queue to collect your kids from school? :confused:
 
last time it properly happened to me i said to the lady i was in front of you!
she apologised and stepped back, although she was a bit annoyed i think, stuff her though, queue jumping is so ignorant
 
I went to see "the dogs" late last year with some friends and as I was standing in line to make a bet a man walked right in front of me and stood in the queue.

I said "excuse me but that *points to end of queue* is the end of the queue", but he just stared and me and eventually said "Yes".

I looked around at my friends behind me, all with a :/ look on their face. The guy was really red in the face (like serious alcoholics look), and he did look slightly drunk and angry, so I didn't bother pushing it any further.

Did annoy me but I don't let that sort of thing bother me for long :p
 
I don't think I've had it happen to me in a while, although hmm, think I've seen it quite a few times at Festivals or concerts...

When it's a festival I tend to let it go... Mostly because the people doing it are so drunk, and I don't really want to bother with the possible consequences...

To be fair though, most of the time I just glare blatantly and disapprovingly...

kd
 
If its a formal queue then I'll definitely say something along the lines of 'excuse me there's a queue'. I've never known it fail.

If it's not formal (by which I mean the sort of queue you get in tube stations to get on escalators and the like) as far as I'm concerned all is fair in love and war. I'll quite often cut through myself and am perfectly happy for others to do the same to me. Not really justified I suppose but its pretty normal in the country I grew up in so it sort of comes naturally now.
 
Energizer Bunny said:
If it's not formal (by which I mean the sort of queue you get in tube stations to get on escalators and the like) as far as I'm concerned all is fair in love and war. I'll quite often cut through myself and am perfectly happy for others to do the same to me. Not really justified I suppose but its pretty normal in the country I grew up in so it sort of comes naturally now.
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It's not normal here unless you're a total goob-head, don't do it!
 
Energizer Bunny said:
If its a formal queue then I'll definitely say something along the lines of 'excuse me there's a queue'. I've never known it fail.

If it's not formal (by which I mean the sort of queue you get in tube stations to get on escalators and the like) as far as I'm concerned all is fair in love and war. I'll quite often cut through myself and am perfectly happy for others to do the same to me. Not really justified I suppose but its pretty normal in the country I grew up in so it sort of comes naturally now.
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I'd agree with that I have to say!

It's my Mediterranean blood coming out :p
 
Heliospherez said:
What i find strange is people who look disgustingly at you when you give off to someone who has jumped to the front of a queue ??? Whats that about ?

I rememeber in Spain 2 years ago - we went to a theme park. All generalisations aside, most Spanish/Portugese have a strange attitiude to queues full stop - so it was no surprise that most rides I queued for with my kids had some numptys jumping to the front of them - by blatently going under barriers/chains etc.

On 2 or 3 occasions I just let rip - and shouted something along the lines of "Oi - Do you understand English - and do you know what a queue is ?" - " Well here it is - so why don't you join it like the rest of us did 10 minutes ago ? "

Only to be met with loads of people giving me harsh looks in the queue.....

It still got the people who jumped to the front to move to the back though.
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I'm Asian so nobody queue jumps in front of me because I'm too damn fast and protect my area like nobodies business.

But seriously, I've never had a problem with people jumping in.
 
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