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Line cutting...please tell me it's not ok
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Hoho for breakfast
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Well if Trump is our next president I will gladly leave and be your queue captain.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Tell me this situation is OK or not:
Me and a girl pull up to get smokes at the store. She says she doesn't want any. I go in to grab mine. There's two people in line behind me by the time I'm paying. As soon as I finish paying the girl comes in and says she changed her mind. At that time, I said I'll just grab them for her since I'm at the front of the line. So I ask the lady working to grab her what she wanted (took like 10 seconds max for the whole conversation from the girl I was with coming in the door to me asking for the cigarettes), and she got all pissy, saying things like "You know there are other people in here, that need waited on if you would like to not take all day"
I was wondering if I was in the wrong here.
Me and a girl pull up to get smokes at the store. She says she doesn't want any. I go in to grab mine. There's two people in line behind me by the time I'm paying. As soon as I finish paying the girl comes in and says she changed her mind. At that time, I said I'll just grab them for her since I'm at the front of the line. So I ask the lady working to grab her what she wanted (took like 10 seconds max for the whole conversation from the girl I was with coming in the door to me asking for the cigarettes), and she got all pissy, saying things like "You know there are other people in here, that need waited on if you would like to not take all day"
I was wondering if I was in the wrong here.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
It's not as bad as physically cutting in line, but it's not very proper either. It's a gray area I guess. I wouldn't be upset by it if I were in line but I can understand if someone was I guess. It would be completely fine if you were still doing the first transaction but once you do a second separate one it gets pretty iffy.
Charles Brandon
Member
Once you have paid, it becomes a naughty action IMO
Makoto-Yuki
Banned
it's unacceptable to skip the queue. simple as that.
If she asked you while you were still in line or being served then there is nothing wrong with it. You could argue that if she wants something she should stand in line herself but she's with you. To me it's really no different from if you had forgot something and then asked for it. If anybody had a problem with it then well that's their problem.
JAV Actress
Banned
Goddamnit Americans don't do Chinese line cuts. You should of freed the shit out of them OP. We don't want none of that communist shit in our single file lines
People that cut in line have no regard for anyone else. The one thing I love about living in the south is the hospitality. People are always holding open doors, smiling at you or waving, and even let you go first in line. Not long ago I got into this whole thing with someone because he said I could go in front of him. I told him it was fine, but man was he relentless about it. I've had people ram their shoulders into me in other states, be rude, give me a weird look if I smile or say a word to them. It's crazy how it works.
You had already paid so were no longer in line.
What you did is exactly the same as just walking past the line and going straight to the front you monster.
privitsan02
Member
I've noticed kids/teenagers and old people do it the most around here and they do it voluntarily. Main reason why I don't bother with public transportation and fast food, unless I decide to go drive through.
Best wishes.
Best wishes.
Fudgepuppy
Banned
Just try forming a line in Bulgaria, it's impossible.
Also, I thought the thread was about cable...
Also, I thought the thread was about cable...
Diprosalic
Banned
i usually have no problems letting people do the old chat and cut where they join their friends in the line. i know it sucks when your entire party is somewhere in the line and one guy has to go at the end.
I'll take note.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
So you think the correct course of action would be to get in the back of the line?
Insane Metal
Gold Member
lol
Rktk
Member
It's a faux pas to leave the queue to get something you forgot before you paid for one, moderate tutting. If you pay and then do that it's even worse, words to be had. It's not as bad as jumping the queue to start with but yes you were in the wrong.
Absolutely
Rktk
Member
Yep. Actually should have told your girl to get in line, see her in the car.
Charles Brandon
Member
I guess so. You're fucked either way though because you then have to tell the girl in front of everyone that she isn't allowed to horn in on your purchase, which will make you look like a complete prick.
The girl is at fault.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Ok, this sounds more reasonable to me. I'll take this response please.
Well in China skipping in line is the norm. Maybe that's what he many
Can second, happens to me pretty regularly when I only have one or two items. Also, I honestly cannot remember a time someone cut in front of me as an adult. Advantage of being tall I suppose.
Honestly I think what happened is fine. There is such a thing as holding a spot for someone, even if it's just implied because you're out at the same time together.
I wouldn't tell my partner to get to the back of the line. Everyone would have to just hush. We're together.
Maybe if you're a really sad person with no friends who can't even fathom the human kindness that is holding a spot in line.
You're basically scum. Back of the line for you, foul bladder-haver.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Say I'm in line for a game. It's 11:48pm, they give them out at 12:00am.I'm the 3rd person in line out of 50+, and I'm literally going to piss myself right now. Not acceptable for my friend who is second in line to hold that spot for me?
Human kindness has no place in a proper British queue. There is only the cold hard logic of the queue, without it our entire society would crumble into anarchy.
To the back with you!
Oh you're doing a bit. Um, British comedy...
Have you tried turning your line off and on again?
Gotdatmoney
Member
I once went to a concert where to get a good standing place we had to wait 2 1/2 hours in the freezing cold. We were relatively close to the front. A bunch of people "held" spots and we kept getting pushed back. Do you think I really give a fuck about whether they all needed to "piss" while its -15 degrees celcius?
Holding spots has a fine line between that's cool and fuck you. And since I domt expect people to have common decency to know it, I'd prefer that people dont cut at all.
Sure of course, also, you can swing by the line early in the morning, tell the guy there to hold a spot for you, and come back at noon. This way you have the whole morning to spread your line cutting anarchy around town.
I guess everyone should piss themselves because you forgot a jacket.
Mammoth Jones
Member
I just get infront of them and say "Nah, man...fuck that." They know exactly what I'm saying and we aint gonna fight over it. They know they doing dirty shit and usually fall back when called out.
They bet on people not making a fuss. I make fusses.
They bet on people not making a fuss. I make fusses.
Blue Submarine No. 6
Member
Only an American could miss the monumental irony in this post.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
That's completely acceptable imo. You were in the line you just had to get out of it momentarily. Holding a spot for someone who was already in the line is ok, holding a spot for someone who was not previously in the line is a no go.
Yep I'm not seeing it. Explain?
Gotdatmoney
Member
I know you're being snarky but my point isn't "I dont care that things happen", my point is that people use anything to justify being assholes and cutting a line. One person cuts a line. W/e. You apply that to multiple people and suddenly you're waiting 3x as long for people who couldnt be bothered to wait like everyone else. And frankly, if I wait in a line at like -20 I expect everyone else to wait to. I dont mind if you were there before me and had to do sonething vut all those people did not have to piss.
I'm not gonna pretend I never cut a line. But the degree of which it is viewed as fair varies so much I would rather nobody do it. Its not cool for one personto hold like 6 peoples spots.
Shit man, that might get you an extra minute or two on your time card.. I'd be like, please, go ahead.
But really, people who cut in line are classless and it's not something that can be fixed. They'll just keep doing it.
Blue Submarine No. 6
Member
American tourists are well regarded world-wide as polite, considerate, quiet, patient and kind. Really.
There's waiting in line the dumb way, and there's waiting in line the smart way.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Ha, if only it worked that way. We have to be there I think an extra 5 minutes to get paid for it. I clock out at 5am. So if I clock out up through 5:04am, I don't get paid those extra 4 minutes. If I clocked out at 5:05am, I would get paid for it and also get a warning not to do it again. They want people clocked out no later than 1 minute after the actual time to clock out.
Ah I see(assuming that's some heavy sarcasm). Well they're probably the line cutters. They just don't care apparently no matter where they go.
PayOffWizard
Member
One of my favourite responses to cutting in line.
From Dead Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWSo7c5sNq0
From Dead Like Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWSo7c5sNq0
_illmatic_
Member
I always call people out on it, I like to get the whole line rowdy so others start fighting about it while I instigate. lol
Hoho for breakfast
Member
My hero.
The Faceless Master
Member
people have been shot for doing this in America.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
This is America too
Yeah. Even on Black Friday there is often a line, but good luck getting people to not jump in that line. And when the doors open it's a complete free for all as you see. You basically have no choice but to be an asshole if you're trying for a hot item and they don't hand out tickets.
yongeandcollege
Member
It's not ok but I usually just tell them "There is a lineup" and then point to the end of the line.
QuicheFontaine
Member
YOUR TRANSACTION WAS COMPLETED. MOVE ALONG.
The worst is what my wife will do at supermarket checkouts. We'll be at the front, everything getting scanned through, and then she'll be like "Oh wait, I forgot to pick up the mittens/hot sauce/whatever, one sec", and go off to get it. Meanwhile, I'm left there to sweat as our shopping goes through. The items on the conveyor belt diminishes and diminishes. The three people in the queue behind me start looking at each other. The check out lady slows down, but everything is almost scanned through.....oh my god, now there's nothing left at all. What the fuck do I do?? Pay? Wait? Arrrrghblaerghetrhrgghagh!!!!
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