General Chat

Dear All

Hello

Does queuing drive you potty?
Is this fast becoming a national pastime or even hobby?!

Any places were the wait is more lengthy than others?

Take care
Best wishes
xx

I much prefer to queue rather than a free-for-all. Busy check-outs can be a bind.

We are a nation of queuers, an inheritance from the war years I think. We do a lot of people watching when we are relaxing at the seaside on holiday and it is surprising how people just form a queue whether it be for an ice cream, in a cafe or get a view of something they wait their turn, the longest queues are usuallly for the ladies and although there are a few funny dances, not many object to queuing. Very patient we Brithish., or are we just apathetic and will put up with anything instead of standing up for ourselves and being counted.

Don't mind queues but hate waiting on phones.

I don't mind queuing but can't stand queue jumpers, and they all know what they are doing when they edge their way to the front!!

Wendy x

It said in the paper today that immigrants are going to be taught the art of queuing, apparently it is one thing likely to cause friction when they come from countries that don't recognize how to queue.

Slow queues drive me mad when not necessary,ei when there is only one till open at the busiest time. We have four stations in our post office,but on the busiest time of the week,pension day, they only have one working.

I have also noticed that some of our Eastern Europian comers think it ok to barge their way to the front, but we gobby northeners soon put them in their place.

Some of our African visitors make me smile when they all sit down on the ground to wait.

I don't mind queuing but it gets my goat when I am in the supermarket, waiting my turn, with someone in front with loads of stuff or faffing about trying to find their card or money at the checkout . I start unloading my basket/trolley and then someone comes and opens another till and the person behind me goes forward and is served first or they do that even if I haven't started emptying my basket! Oh I am sure steam comes out of the top of my head lol

I too hate the confusion at bus stops now, our buses don't always stop near the entrance to the shelters so people get on from the other end, if I ended up being refused I would have something to say, good for you for standing up for yourself and good that the man backed you up too.

Lizx

I hate it in our supermarkets when I go to the queue and there is an unattended trolley in front of me because the person who had it has not finished their shopping and they seem to think they can reserve a place in the queue by putting their trolley there. I once moved a trolley and went in front of it. When the 'owner' came back she told me that she had been there. I pointed out that she wasnt there when I arrived, she was still shopping. If I have forgotten something I either sacrifice my place and take my trolley with me or I decide I dont need the item all that badly.

Huia.

Talking of supermarkets, today when I was in one I noticed a young (6 or 8 years old?) girl sitting on the edge of the butter/cheese section handling something. She then put it down and licked her fingers and went to join her mother. I saw a pack of mauled butter, a hole in the paper, so I took it to the mother and asked if she wanted the butter her daughter had mauled. She denied it was her daughter but I said I had seen her doing it. The mother didnt seem interested. I was quite cross about that as nobody would want to buy that butter. The mother should have bought it and taken some or all of the cost out of her daughters pocket money.

Huia.

My 87 year old mother is aweful while queueing for a bus , if shes at the back some how she always the first on the bus I'm always saying sorry for her when I'm down there with her.

Yes May Blossom it was brought in during the War, and I would like to find out, my mother always told me there had to be five or more people for it to be a queue and that the law had not been repelled.
Carol

I have noticed living here and doing a lot of bus journeys, it is always the young asian men who let me go in front of them when boarding the bus, even if they were there first, also they are the ones who give up their seat to women or the elderly :))