How long till you lose your cool in a queue?

Willigness to queue quietly, or indeed to queue at all, is one of the reasons why day to day life is much more pleasant in Britain than in other countries. Long may this distinction continue. Impatient people, get a grip! You’re only making the situation worse, for yourselves and for everyone else.

Women – at supermarket checkouts pack as the assistant passes items to you, preferably organising your items in the trolley and then conveyor belt first, making packing easier. Then, have your payment method ready before the assistant even has the chance to utter the words, ‘do you have a Clubcard?’

Old people – banks are not there to confirm the weather. You can also withdraw cash from machines designed and built with that particular function in mind.

Call centre managers – learn the art of staff training. It sometimes helps if your agents actually understand the products and services they are supporting.

BMW/Audi drivers – keeping a safe distance from the vehicle in front of you means you don’t have to apply the brakes when it slows down on motorways forcing everyone else to brake resulting in a complete halt and congestion

Lorry drivers – Elephant racing is not an official sport so please refrain from participating in this activity on the public highway. If another lorry does have the need to overtake you at 60mph it would be helpful if, for a few seconds, you slowed down to allow it to pass you quickly, thus freeing up one-third of the UK motorway network.

Highways engineers – allowing traffic lights to turn to red in the middle of the night on a roundabout when there are no vehicles around is not big or clever. It may keep you in a job but, with the CSR, for how much longer?

Workmen – similarly, when setting up temporary traffic lights on roadworks, it is helpful to understand in what direction the main flow of traffic is. It isn’t helpful having lights on green when nobody is waiting.

Retired people, people with pushchairs, the unemployed, the other stay-at-homes -all should be banned from queuing in any public building between the hours of 12 and 2pm. They have all day to do their business, some of us get 30 mins at lunchtimes.

How many people have I offended this time? 🙂

I must say that I find this unanimous display of impatience pitiful and rather worrying. I wouldn’t thought it was something to brag about either.

Thankfully most drivers on motorways drive with consideration for fellow travellers (sufferers)
and therefore they read the road ahead,to understand a situation,and to drive with respect for others . When three lanes converge …into two, it is obvious that the traffic will flow at a slower rate, but at least the traffic still moves.

However there are too many tickled pink morons around who treat other drivers with contemprt. A tickled pink moron thinks that it is clever to disregard collective common sense and decency.
With a brazen contempt these jackals speed along the respectfully vacated 3rd lane…,and then still expect the queuing “muppets” to have the decency to allow them access into the miles long queue..”to share their pain”.

These morons are the cause of motorway misery.. but their days are numbered. Many law abiding drivers are finding their own way of stopping these queue jumpers… by edging out into the third lane ,while their original queue space….. is left vacant for them by the the understanding driver following behind.

Queue jumpers cause much anger among patiently waiting drivers because they know that for every selfish moron that shoots down the puposefully empty lane.( and there are hundreds) It will mean another stop when he is allowed to merge in ….

Oh God, I had this today. I consdier myself to be one of the most patient people ever but this one got me. I was queuing on my lunch break to buy a bottle of water, this one woman in front of me had bought a whole bunch of stuff and was faffing around over whether to buy some perfume that was displayed near the counter. The shopkeeper was encouraging her saying which one she likes best, then the woman starts spraying and sniffing the different bottles, apologizing to the cashier, completely oblivious to me waiting next to her! What made it worse was another cashier was next to her on the other till trying to sort out something to do with the receipts, so clearly not serving. A woman just walks in and says she purchased ear drops instead of eyedrops, “can I just replace them?”. The second girl on till agrees and says yes that’s fine bring them back here and I’ll ring it through the till. Never mind me standing there for 5 minutes obviously needing to be served. Then the woman buying the perfume decides on the one she likes and gets it bagged up. Now the woman serving her starts a conversation about what hours she works this week, the woman buying the perfume told her “oh different hours everyday this week, Monday it’s 2 – 6, Tuesday it’s 1 -5, Wednesday it’s 9 – 12, Thursday…. ” While looking up to the sky trying to remember the hours. At this point I decided to do a loud fake clearing of the throat… nothing, no reaction. So I started randomly whistling a random tune really loudly to give the hint…. nothing! Finally she pays for her stuff. No apologies my way, the cashier must have seen how annoyed I looked but also no apologies. But like a good polite British person I am I kept it all inside. In reality I wanted to unleash holy hell. What is wrong with these people!?

I cannot stand queuing – I have zero patience for people who cannot be asked to move! Nothing worse than an old person taking forever or an idiot on his phone.
I literally grab my shopping, shove it in a bag and dash away so the person behind me can go.
F***ing move people!