Bus Q's and organised chaos...

thegoose

So everyone is standing in a nice orderly line right?, awaiting their own personal driver to arrive who is only too happy to take 'em home after their busy day... what happens next only baffles me everytime... God I love bus Queues... Why oh why can't some people just wait for people to get off the bus before they get on the bus themselves??? Truly baffling!

Please fill me in on the reasoning behind it... I'd love to know!

melekalikimaka

cos if we dont get on first we wont get to sit with our friends or miss a window seat....duh

faceman

I dont think its just buses. The luas, pubs, shops - it happens everywhere. Logic would say that it would be easier to let those getting off move first but some people are just idiots.

thegoose

melekalikimaka wrote:

cos if we dont get on first we wont get to sit with our friends or miss a window seat....duh

But how can you get to that sacred window seat with your mate if there's a geansai load of people in front of ya blocking your path to a room with a view?

Schlemm

People in Ireland generally find that queuing is an extremely challenging task.

How many times have you queued for an ATM or such with the person behind you breathing down your neck lest they might reach the ATM any quicker?

Or at mass, when everyone stands up for communion at once like it's a mad scurry lest the hosts run out! But nobody seems to realise that you're just going to have to stand there while you let other people from the rows in front of you out as you queue. Won't get you there any faster. At mass in Canada they could all get up 1 row at a time, from front to back...strange that.

People skipping queues really grinds my gears too. Seems to happen a lot when queuing to check in for Ryanair flights all the time.

connundrum

thegoose wrote:

So everyone is standing in a nice orderly line right?, awaiting their own personal driver to arrive who is only too happy to take 'em home after their busy day... what happens next only baffles me everytime... God I love bus Queues... Why oh why can't some people just wait for people to get off the bus before they get on the bus themselves??? Truly baffling!

Please fill me in on the reasoning behind it... I'd love to know!

I thought this might have been more of a 'Get it off your Chest' type post.. but anyhoo.

Ignorance and stupidity are the reasons behind it.

The Walsho

connundrum wrote:

Ignorance and stupidity are the reasons behind it.

Agree.

Pigman II

It's the fault of the people alighting the bus. They should move in front of the white line just before the doors open.

I've tried this myself and as an experiement and it works. At one particular stop I found people would routinely barge onto the bus before allowing me to get off first. However once I started moving in front of the line the gits trying to get on now stayed out of your the way when they see you've already claimed the position.

People = stupid.

Victor

Schlemm wrote:

People skipping queues really grinds my gears too. Seems to happen a lot when queuing to check in for Ryanair flights all the time.

Maybe there won't be enough seats on the plane and they'll have to stand!!!!

biko

It's because of the bystander effect which diffuses responsibility of own actions.

Ergo, doors open, people start getting off, I make like a salmon swimming upstream, another traveller sees me and thinks "Hey, if he can I can" and starts too, then a third and a fourth...

Same behaviour at a pedestrian red light. Everyone waits and then some eejit just walks out and people just follow.

Question answered.

Hal1

Its survival of the fittest these days if you take your time you will be trouded on.

PeakOutput

i was thinking about doing a documentary about how peoples personalities change momentarily when it comes to getting on the bus/luas/dart it really is amazing

pred racer

Victor wrote:

Maybe there won't be enough seats on the plane and they'll have to stand!!!!

or maybe if you dont get on early you end up sitting beside the monster bloke that really needs 2 seats, and you'll have nowhere to put your bag AND you'll be stuck in the middle of the plane from where it will take approx 2 hours to get off the bloody thing.

Dont get me wrong im all for orderly queueing (sp?) but after the first couple of times you get left behind at the terminus at rush hour while all the auld wans with the busy elbows are gone on their merry way you soon get into the swing of it:)

If I had a solution to this, we could also sort out too high drink prices in Dublin (right lads anyone who charges more than 4 euro a pint dont go in there) or boycott any concert that costs more than 50 quid or even not buying tickets for events from touts. Im not taking the proverbial here I would love to see all this stuff happening and I believe that queueing included we would all be happier and better off, im just not sure how it can be achieved.

for right now if everybody else is pushing on, then I gotta do it too or ill never get home.(although why we cant wait for the people to get off to have our scrum is beyond me too)

Dave!

It's cold outside and less cold inside

FlutterinBantam

Look!!... Irish people generally don't do orderly.

Check the queues ,traffic roundabouts, baggage reclaim belts,supermarket lines,bus stops etc etc etc. Theres always SOME pr1ck with a stupid grin on his/her face who can't wait.
Fook you is the attitude,Ooim not waiting,if I slip up the inside of that roundabout and cut across everyone else in a highly dangerous manouvre sure I'll gain 15 seconds to waste scratching my balls while I'm smokin my tab.

One of these days,,,one of these days... Gordon Geko will emerge......

NeMiSiS

I love airplane queues! While waiting to board, and every idiot stands up to queue.. for fifteen twenty minutes.. for their pre-assigned seats.. do they think someone is going to steal them..? A big huddled mass of groins pointing at asses.. sombreros, tracksuits, and wife beaters.

Baggage claim on the other hand is pain in-the-hole, Why in the name of Christ does every single member of peoples family have to stand at the very edge of the conveyor? There should be a line encircling it saying " Go no further than this so people can at least see their bags before they go by", and "When you get your bags, get the **** out of the way".

TK

r3nu4l

I was home at the weekend and got a 'Dublin Bus' bus for the first time in years Exactly as thegoose described.

What I can't understand is why people don't form two queues. One for people who are paying in cash and one for tickets Then again that would make sense

astrofool

It would be great if Ryanair could start assigning seats again. Their "priority queue" system is an absolute joke.

Caliden

Irish people dont do queues, simple as.
A bit like French women don't do shaving.



cue PC replies! go!


edit: I've been spelling 'cue' wrong for so so many years

r3nu4l

r3nu4l wrote:

I was home at the weekend and got a 'Dublin Bus' bus for the first time in years Exactly as thegoose described.

What I can't understand is why people don't form two queues. One for people who are paying in cash and one for tickets Then again that would make sense

Every bus I've ever gotten, there's a ticket queue and a cash queue...

que PC replies!

"Que" is not an English word. You mean "cue".

panda100

This probably could be easily sorted out if the bus drivers actually used the middle doors. In London we had a very simple system.Passengers get off throught the double middle doors and get on at the front door. Whats the point of having those middle doors if there never used?!

NeMiSiS

Because the scummers would jump in the middle doors! Of course!
TK

markpb

NeMiSiS wrote:

Because the scummers would jump in the middle doors! Of course!

That's a rubbish reason. Do they not have scumbags in the countless other cities where they manage to use both doors?

galah

totally disagree with people bitching about Irish people not being able to queue properly! They DO queue properly. Ever gone to Germany and tried to queue for a bus there? Holy cow, you'd think Germans are all orderly and organised - not in bus queues though!

Here, people wait patiently to get on the bus (or to an ATM, or whatever) - in Germany, everyone tries to get on the bus at the same time, a huge cluster of people trying to squeeze through the bus door...

I LOVE Irish queues! And taxi ranks. The one thing you cannot knock about Ireland is the ability to form proper queues...

The Walsho

That's brilliant, 'we may be alcoholics and backward in our ways, but by god, we can form a queue'.