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Queue Jumpers

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  • #32
    drugstore cowboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭drugstore cowboy


    Hold the Cheez Whiz wrote: »
    If you're waiting, and you see someone cut ahead of you, do you say anything to queue jumpers? This drives me crazy and I've called people out for it before, but I've noticed that a lot of people just mutter darkly without saying anything.

    Old people are murder for it. In my doctor's surgery they always feel they can skip the queue.


  • #33
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Yeah I'd always have a word with somebody if they skip ahead of me in a queue.

    That said, If I had a load of stuff in, say, a shopping queue, I'd let somebody with only a few items go ahead of me or I'd let somebody who looked tied up with kids go ahead of me in a queue too but they should wait for you to offer.


  • #34
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,738 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    What pisses me off no end is when someone walks straight to the counter hands the shop assistant money while picking up the paper and says to the queue "im only getting the paper".


  • #35
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    drugstore cowboy wrote: »
    Old people are murder for it. In my doctor's surgery they always feel they can skip the queue.

    I know the doctor's receptionist and always get to the top of the queue. It gives me great satisfaction to be able to skip past whining snotty children and their failing grandparents.

    Sometimes it's the little things in life.


  • #36
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    stimpson wrote: »
    "GET TO FCUK!!!!"

    Do FCUK make nice jumpers?


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 650 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I hate when you're next in the queue in a shop & another till opens. The cashier calls next please & the cnut at the end of the queue just assumes that means them. Fcuk off you're clearly not next. I often call people on that one.


  • #38
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    Sometimes I wish I was a big hairy biker, I bet no one ever 'subtly' shoves them in the back with their handbag.
    Old grannies have no fear of us what so ever, defiant old bints :mad: :D


  • #39
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hate when you're next in the queue in a shop & another till opens. The cashier calls next please & the cnut at the end of the queue just assumes that means them. Fcuk off you're clearly not next. I often call people on that one.
    Snooze you lose, I call fair game on this :eek:


  • #40
    cletus van damme
    Closed Accounts Posts: 960 ✭✭✭cletus van damme


    depends where it is.
    If it just getting on the bus then I usually ignore it but if it is in a shop or bank I'd let them know.

    It is one thing where in my experience that irish people are usually well behaved one - only junkies and old people skip habitually.

    Foreign folk (i'm guessing it's cultural ) don't really respect the queue.
    Eastern europeans do mind.

    once in drogheda I saw two lads have a punch up cos one fella used an ambulance (he drove up behind the ambulance - skipping all cars that parted to allow ambulance to pass) to skip the traffic.
    He deserved that the cheeky fcuker.


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 650 ✭ [Deleted User]


    DLMA23 wrote: »
    Snooze you lose, I call fair game on this :eek:

    You disgust me


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  • #42
    DLMA23
    Closed Accounts Posts: 291 ✭✭DLMA23


    Deleted User wrote: »
    You disgust me
    :P :pac:


  • #43
    JustAddWater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hate when you're next in the queue in a shop & another till opens. The cashier calls next please & the cnut at the end of the queue just assumes that means them. Fcuk off you're clearly not next. I often call people on that one.

    Happens all the time in LIDL/ALDI


  • #44
    TheBeardedLady
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    Always speak up unless they're very old (very old people can do whatever they like as far as I'm concerned). I just say, "Sorry, there's a queue here. Thanks". No need to be rude about it. Love when they pretend they didn't realise; I love to see chancers squirm.


  • #45
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Couldn't give a toss about it. Life is too short.


  • #46
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I hate when you're next in the queue in a shop & another till opens. The cashier calls next please & the cnut at the end of the queue just assumes that means them. Fcuk off you're clearly not next. I often call people on that one.

    It's a different queue. You snooze, you loose, as the other guy said. "Calling" people on it probably won't get you anything other than a few confused glances.


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 650 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Lenin Skynard wrote: »
    It's a different queue. You snooze, you loose, as the other guy said. "Calling" people on it probably won't get you anything other than a few confused glances.

    In Lidl/Aldi/Dunnes etc yes it's a different queue. No issues there. In Spar/Centra etc where there's one person on the till & it's one queue & the person at the back peels off when "next" is called is where I have the issue.


  • #48
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,243 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Was in the bank another time and waiting in the queue when this priest, he was an ould fella came in shouting he wanted to get ahead of everyone.

    He wasn't too happy when he got laughed out of it.


  • #49
    Lenin Skynard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,970 ✭✭✭Lenin Skynard


    Deleted User wrote: »
    In Lidl/Aldi/Dunnes etc yes it's a different queue. No issues there. In Spar/Centra etc where there's one person on the till & it's one queue & the person at the back peels off when "next" is called is where I have the issue.

    Ah well that's quite a game-changing condition :pac:

    Agree on that one.


  • #50
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,285 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I got sick and tired of it getting the bus home from work one day. There is always a fight for seats. I get to the stop first and stand right by the pole. Foreign people instead of queuing behind me stand in front of me ???
    When the bus finally comes its like a title wave of foreigners splashes against the side of the bus. Some of which were standing at the shop window. I am getting elbows and hands pushing me as i try to get on. So me being bigger then everybody else push back, to which i get a backlash of abuse for skipping the queue despite being at the stop first . The Dublin Bus driver has the ability to control the situation doesnt let me on because it looks like i started it.

    Happened twice, second time the bus driver saw what was happening and let me on.


  • #51
    EazyD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,207 ✭✭✭EazyD


    I just calmly say "sorry, you mustn't have seen me there ahead in the queue", and proceed back to where I was in the line. Confrontation avoided.


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  • #52
    GAAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    WoollyRedHat wrote: »
    I usually slap them silly, shock them vigourously, inject heroine into their arm and tell them they're out of line.

    You inject a woman into them?? That's hardcore!


  • #53
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,509 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    "oh you must have been taught the 25 letter alphabet...the one where these is no Q"


  • #54
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Was in the bank another time and waiting in the queue when this priest, he was an ould fella came in shouting he wanted to get ahead of everyone.

    He wasn't too happy when he got laughed out of it.

    What's he need a bank for? I thought they took a vow of poverty (amongst others :D).


  • #55
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    I got sick and tired of it getting the bus home from work one day. There is always a fight for seats. I get to the stop first and stand right by the pole. Foreign people instead of queuing behind me stand in front of me ???
    When the bus finally comes its like a title wave of foreigners splashes against the side of the bus. Some of which were standing at the shop window. I am getting elbows and hands pushing me as i try to get on. So me being bigger then everybody else push back, to which i get a backlash of abuse for skipping the queue despite being at the stop first . The Dublin Bus driver has the ability to control the situation doesnt let me on because it looks like i started it.

    Happened twice, second time the bus driver saw what was happening and let me on.


    Irish people are every bit as bad for this. Especially old people, but I doubt they get called up on it as much.


  • #56
    Donald73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭Donald73


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Was in the bank another time and waiting in the queue when this priest, he was an ould fella came in shouting he wanted to get ahead of everyone.

    He wasn't too happy when he got laughed out of it.

    He must have been in a hurry to get out the money that was just resting in his account.


  • #57
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,509 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I got sick and tired of it getting the bus home from work one day. There is always a fight for seats. I get to the stop first and stand right by the pole. Foreign people instead of queuing behind me stand in front of me ???
    When the bus finally comes its like a title wave of foreigners splashes against the side of the bus. Some of which were standing at the shop window. I am getting elbows and hands pushing me as i try to get on. So me being bigger then everybody else push back, to which i get a backlash of abuse for skipping the queue despite being at the stop first . The Dublin Bus driver has the ability to control the situation doesnt let me on because it looks like i started it.

    Happened twice, second time the bus driver saw what was happening and let me on.

    You should avoid ski-lifts...I dont see it ending well.


  • #58
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I always say something. Usually 'I don't fcuking think so', then shove in ahead of them or I'll point to the back of the queue and say 'the back of the queue is that way'. I've no time for arseholes who try to jump queues, shame the fcukers.:mad:


  • #59
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,741 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    I never used to say anything, but when I first grew a beard a few years ago, I figured the manly thing to do was argue with one guy who tried to skip the queue because his friend was already in line ahead of me. I argued my point and made him get back behind me.

    At least, it would have been the manly thing to do if not for the fact that the queue was for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in the cinema on a Tuesday afternoon and I was going by myself.


  • #60
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    queues generally are there to be skipped!


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  • #61
    Donald73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭Donald73


    This happened to us yesterday. My little boy just started in Junior Infants and they have the different class lines painted out in the yard, first child tends to stand on the classroom number and everyone else falls in behind and the teacher holds the hand of the first child going in.

    We happened to be there first yesterday and there were quite a few children in the line when a Polish lady came along with her child and buggy with baby in it. She proceeded to march to the top of the line, parked the buggy sideways in front of me and spoke rapidly to the child in Polish, I assume telling her to get in front of my son as this is what she did. My son asked why she wasn't in the line, I told him some of the kids just weren't in line yet but would when the teacher came out (there were a few other kids playing and running about too). The mother was listening but didn't react, not sure if her English was good or not but I said nothing to her about the queue in case it wasn't.

    Teacher came out, said good morning and told the little girl to get into the line properly, nudging her past the other children. This morning the same little girl came into the yard, came over and looked as if she was heading over to do the same again but her mum headed in different direction to talk to someone so she went over there too.

    If she was to do this again then I wouldn't hesitate to ask her to please get in line. I understand she might have just wanted to hold teacher's hand but if that's the case then they just need to get there sooner really.

    Can't stand queue jumping it's so ignorant no matter who does it.


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