Queing in Ireland

michellie

Remmy wrote: »

This. I can forgive someone being a bit slow to get the cash out their pocket when paying for things but good god it irks me when someone gets into my personal space.

yep, there is no need to feel or god forbid smell the breath off the person behind you! *vomit*

bodhrandude

realies wrote: »

In portugal when a local is ahead of you, maybe it a bank,shop whatever, May your God grant you patience while they discuss the world and their families and then some.

Some What?

emer_b

My mam was queuing in Dunnes to pay for her shopping. There was a woman behind her with a trolley and she kept hitting my mam in the ankles with the trolley. Mam keeps moving forward, lady keeps clipping her ankles. Mam getting angrier and angrier and eventually turns around and says "excuse me, can you not see me, can you please stop hitting me?".
Lady says "I'm very sorry, I'm visually impaired".
Mam very embarrassed, hangs her head in shame.

jjbrien

SEANoftheDEAD wrote: »

I always get stuck behind the fúcker who spends an age at the ATM...

Seriously, how hard is it to enter you're pin, choose an amount to withdraw. Take you're cash and card and get out of the way...

Oh have you seen the ones who have like 3 different cards and keep putting in different cards to see whats in them and then picks on at the end to take money from

ColeTrain

emer_b wrote: »

My mam was queuing in Dunnes to pay for her shopping. There was a woman behind her with a trolley and she kept hitting my mam in the ankles with the trolley. Mam keeps moving forward, lady keeps clipping her ankles. Mam getting angrier and angrier and eventually turns around and says "excuse me, can you not see me, can you please stop hitting me?".
Lady says "I'm very sorry, I'm visually impaired".
Mam very embarrassed, hangs her head in shame.

Visually impared maybe but she was probably drunk.

Aglomerado

Ziegfeldgirl27 wrote: »

Was in the bank today and some absolute c*** of a woman stands BESIDE ME in the queue. Get behind me you mad bitch, is this your sneaky way to get in front of me.

This happened to me in Debenhams pay queue last week. Except the C*** had a sprogling in a buggy, which must have conferred some sort of right of way on her; I just kept edging forward and she had no choice but to wait her turn.

BOHtox

The worst is as a cashier and there's a massive queue. Someone comes up to you with a basket full or two and say, "damn I forgot something I'll be back in a sec"... so I scan everything through and wait for them seeing the queue build up even more. They then come back with a half a dozen more things. When they're scanned they ask for a bag. Rather than pack as we I scan them she leaves it till the very last minutes. WTF? She then takes 5 minutes packing and after that she proceeds to look for her clubcard and then the .26 of the subtotal so it's nice and even and the they leave it all on the counter for me to awkwardly try to pick up rather than simply hand it to me! Some people are dícks!

RATM

I hate queuing but at least since the invention of the smartphone it has become more tolerable as I can be reading the news or whatever whilst waiting.

Thing that gets my goat is people who skip queues. Other day in the bank I was first to the security door, it opened and I was standing there letting the three people exit before I entered. Suddenly the women behind me enters while the 3 were coming out just so she could get to the queue inside the bank ahead of me :mad: It was pure ignorance.

Then earlier today I was queuing at the till in the shop. I left the queue momentarily to grab a packet of crisps from the shelf (better to do this when in the Q rather than when you're at the counter). But in the meantime the lady behind had pushed up as if I was leaving the queue and was now going to go to the end of it over 5 seconds grabbing a packet of crisps. I wasn't having it and said 'excuse me' and pushed my way back in.

We all hate queuing but some people just make one of lifes little difficulties a lot more intolerable than it really should be.

SimonTemplar

Typical queueing situation in Ireland:

There's one till open.
I'm next
A second till opens and says "Next Please"
The person standing in the queue behind me dashes to that second till
Me: :mad: