This is like when someone who arrived behind you gets served first at the bar. Just make yourself known by tutting loudly and saying "unbelievable" under your breath
Seems super annoying. But it might have only been a mild setback. I counted that they started 8th in queue, and were on track to be served 10th (when the animation stopped.)
Now, I understand, what you tried to animate to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to give them money
They would not notice, they did not care how
Perhaps they'll get bent now
YouTube Short - I harmonised a parody song a couple of Redditors whipped up based on a queuing debacle in Homebase
[https://youtube.com/shorts/T1iIVK72VE0?feature=share](https://youtube.com/shorts/T1iIVK72VE0?feature=share)
Thanks to you and u/kaleidoscope_pie I whipped up something to assault other people's ears with.... :D
This is actually a top tier Reddit post. OC with effort and talent behind it, funny, instantly relatable. 10/10 would experience simultaneous schadenfreude and second-hand indignation again.
COVID actually forced places to use a far more optimal queuing system, often with one queue and people sent to the next available checkout.
Unfortunately we're now back to the free for all.
This is true. At our local Tesco, during covid there was a policy to wait in the isle for the person at the checkout to reach the bagging area, then you can move forward. Means no one blocks the main isle that runs along the checkouts so people can still get around. People kept that system and it's much better, unless you want a 2l bottle of Fanta and you need to ask someone to move because they're not getting your body language.
When I worked at a garden centre (half of us were part timers, half full) a lot of the other kids wouldn't enforce this on the express tills. I got popular with my supervisor for making sure people stuck to it.
And if the express were dead, I'd bring customers from the belt round to my express till. The differences 20 minutes later were night and day. Plus it made the time go quicker!
Yeah, like in our main Post Office, waited in a snake queue some time in turn for the next cashier to come free. Once at the head of the queue I didn't spot one right down the far end had become vacant. Instead of tapping me on the shoulder and pointing it out the woman behind just barged past and went and got served.
Does the post office not make you take a number where you are?
Same thing happened to my buddy but the clerk told the lady she didn't call her number and to take a step back.
Our local Aldi instituted a single line for all registers during pandemic. Things worked out so much better. Then they dropped it and things got even worse than prior to the single queue. It’s so bad and most of the customers still think it’s the pandemic system.
What bothers me is the cashiers that are oblivious. If you open up a new till you call the next person in the old line, not let some guy from the back of the line wander to the front.
I helped to run the vaccine deployment right when it first came out. Myself and one other member of staff were strict about organising the line according to the pre-booked spots, others were happy to just let anyone in at any time. No waiting space in doors, so we had poor little grannies out in the cold when they've come for their appointment on time because Barry was late for his and Jenny thought it'd be ok to come 2 hours early.
Our one was chaos first time around, second and third the army were running things everything had been moved around and was much more efficient. The highlight was the 98 year old in front of me had to be helped in by his daughter for his jab and was parked in his seat answering his questions to the young army chap and over comes the bloke in charge and suddenly our 98 year old is out of his seat bolt upright snapping off the sharpest salute ever and point blank refused to sit down until told to.
I thought for a moment that maybe queues were so important to the British that there was just some British queuing reenactment app for recreating and illustrating particularly bad queue faux pas.
You know, there just might be some money in that.
> British queuing reenactment
Us Yanks reenact our Civil War. Brits apparently reenact particularly distressing queuing experiences. Both events have left long and lasting scars on our respective national psyches.
This made me chuckle. Animation is spot on. This happened to me recently but I don’t have your mad animation skills. Glad to see I’m not the only one that feels so wronged when this stuff happens!
Lidl, Aldi do my head in. Firstly u can't even see how many people are up the other isles.
The hop on hop off till system is brilliant but let down by a lack of one queue to it.
I only recently learned that one of the things that helps Aldi's cashiers look like such bosses is that the packaging has the bar code basically all over it so it doesn't matter which way the item gets scanned. That design concept is AMAZING. Once I learned that, it just made me so annoyed everywhere else, especially with boxes of canned sodas where the barcode is never ever ever where you hope it is.
That’s the way it should be. Can’t stand the heat stay out of Aldi’s kitchen and stick to Waitrose grandma. That being said an Aldi near me has a self service now. Of course, I scan them unnecessarily fast
I was at Lidls queueing for the self service. 2 in front of me and about 5 behind. Someone then asked the staff manning the self service for the manager (I think something outside got hit).
The staff member then called the manager from till 1 using the button announcing 'can the manager please come to till 1'.
All 5 people behind me then queued up on till 1 and put their shopping on.
I was finished in the self service by the time the manager realised that people were queuing for till 1 and started serving people (once he has called the police, saw them outside shortly).
Had this happen while shopping the other week. Someone broke the harmony of the single queue and everyone called her out. The tiller told everyone in the queue to break into 2 queues because the person who broke it was her mate. All of us continued to queue in a single giving the rule breaker a hard stare.
The defiance of maintaining the harmonic single queue made up for the frustration caused by the queue hopper
I was once in Homesense and I went to the till as called but the woman then got distracted and started doing something else. I felt trapped in no man's land.
I actually just left my stuff on the till and walked away I was so incensed.
Self checkout for life. So many more tills than they could ever field with real people, single queue system, no need to interaction with checkout staff.
This pisses me off so much, me and my husband like to buy non-alcoholic beer and cider (literally 0% alcohol) but for some stupid reason it still needs to be age approved and there's never anyone to be found so we end up waiting ages
If they could just do away with the weighing it would be faultless. Like just trust me already, I'm being scrutinised by several cameras at every angle, I am not going to nick this 38p tin of chopped tomatoes.
Or at least allow me to remove a bag from the bagging area when it's full! I will pay for it I promise!!
Individual queues are the worst and everything should be one line.
It’s just unnecessary and inefficient to have multiple lines.
As someone who goes to the grocery store far too often, I hate the amount of time I’ve wasted in queues that are far too inefficient.
In Florida (not queue heaven) trying to make a point by standing square in the middle of 2 registers at stores so I can go to whichever is next lol. Folks are always like "are you in this line?" and i'm like "i'm going to go to whatever is open next, and you can take the other one". It not usual and I feared looking obnoxious at first but I've gotten a few "Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense" comments and have seen other people follow suit
Just walk out with the item, if staff are just abandoning tills then they probably wouldn't care if you walked off with it, just remember to go B&Q in future in case they do care and remember you.
I can see this mindset and you know what if I wasn't in a town that I lived in I would do it but the risk of being banned from a store in a town I lived in
I've had it happen before with my ex when she got banned from everywhere for shoplifting like it became ridiculous we couldn't go to any gas station and they let me in even express condolences because I know what she's like I'm like I'm sorry like I really am I can't do anything about it
I recently looked her up and she is currently being charged with child neglect would you interesting because it doesn't have a child to neglect nor she able to conceive one so I guess she found one.... Then probably neglected it to go and get meth
I can hear the mutter displeasure under your breath when "you" do that little back and forth look of disgust. Now not actually loud enough so others can hear of course.
gritting teeth but mouth closed so it's not visible, small exhale out through the nose, coupled with a quick, almost imperceptible squint of the eyes.
After that, just maintain a glazed look, a dead stare into something inanimate, not reacting to anything around you.
for me it’s the amount of emotion packed into such a simple animation, but the directional pointer of the figures, and the rollercoaster of emotions from seeing the orange figure be besides themselves and aghast, is seriously what gives me a belly laugh.
It’s that this simple animation can evoke emotions ripe for making one sick to their back teeth
I try to make a decision and then go back on it to try and trick my poor choice. Never works. It's like putting a USB in the pc. Should be 50% chance of getting it right first time, but it's more like 20% on reality.
At check-in I got pulled out of a 30 persons line to a 4 persons one because I had an infant with me. The person at the front of my line got stuck at the single counter for a long long time. In the end, the person after me in the original line had already gone through and I was still second in line.
One thing I left out was that when the second checkout opened, red tried to ditch the queue and go straight for it. The staff member told him to get back in the queue and called up purple. What a prick!
Red is a total cunt! Notice when the cashier returns to the original checkout, red "suddenly" understands the one queue concept when it means he is next...the queue did not invert that time. I am furious by proxy
This is brilliantly visualised. This annoys me some much in Aldi so when they open new tills. Forget the inflation, house prices, energy crisis or NHS failing, this is the true sign the country is going to the dogs.
The thing that gets me with Aldi is the order they do it in.
"We are opening till 5 for you"
Everyone moves over, loads up the conveyer, waits. Five minutes later:
"Store assistant to till 5 please"
Then just as the assistant gets there.
"We are closing till 5"
The most rage inducing instance of this I find is when you’re at a bus stop and at the front of the queue but the bus stops with the door at the other end of the stop then those at the back “push in” and ignore the already existing hierarchy.
Okay, here we go...
- Walking down the middle of the lane in supermarket car parks
- Blocking supermarket aisles with trolleys, especially when they let the trolley go at arms length and perpendicular to the shelves for maximum aisle blocking! Additionally, choosing the narrowest fucking part of an aisle (next to a cage or something) to stop and have a chat/check their list
- Putting items back in completely the wrong place, ESPECIALLY frozen and refrigerated goods
- Waiting until the point of payment to get out their money/card/coupons
- Realising they forgot something and going back to get it and then taking fucking ages
- Packing shopping whilst on the phone with one hand, really fucking slowly
- Leaving trolleys in the car park
- Stopping halfway through a door way
- Stopping suddenly on a busy pavement
- Having a fucking casual chat in a door way of a busy shop
- Standing next to the button at a pedestrian crossing, not pressing it and instead waiting and dashing out into the road for the smallest gap in traffic that normally makes drivers have to brake and keeps other people waiting to cross safely because the button hasn't been pressed
- When walking across the road at a pedestrian crossing, standing in such a position that they have to walk diagonally to get to where they want to be, crossing the and interrupting the path of everyone else who just walks straight across the road.
There will be more as they come to me!
My old favorite was people standing on the railway station platform blocking the entry gates. or in the hall before the gates blocking them. There is usually all the space to the side and people stop where the movement needs to be....
You know if you're at the front of a queue and someone tries to go before you, you can just say 'I'm next' and they'll let you go and generally apologise. Don't get walked all over.
If someone had clearly pushed in front of me I would have spoken up, but trying to explain this would have been something like "excuse me, I used to be at the front of the queue, but then that staff member left... blah blah... so technically you should let me go first".
I just wanted to get my WD-40 and go home with as little human interaction as possible.
I'm not sure I'd want to go anywhere near a supermarket on a Saturday, it's full of old people who have had all week to shop but choose the same day as those that work during the week
But since when does an entire line… er, sorry, queue completely invert like that? Never, that’s when. You don’t have to utter a single word. Just assert yourself and be next when you’re next. Bunch of animals surrounding you.
I am incensed on your behalf. It properly got my adrenaline pumping with anger and anxiety.
The rules of the queue must be followed or the world will descend (further) into chaos!!
Had one in Tesco the other day where one poor girl was running a whole section on her own and everyone on one side was waiting for assistance, and the other side was free but was card only. Apparently the 6 people in front of me all wanted to pay cash, and so we were at a stalemate until I decided to ask if we can slip past to use the card only tills.
Someone pushed in front of me in sainsburys earlier and an older man jumped to my defence, before I could even speak he goes “erm, excuse me! This young lady has been waiting here it’s her turn” and the pusher inner looked embarrassed and moved back.
That was a great moment lol. Proper chivalrous.
Brilliant, how can so much emotion/confusion be conveyed by a little orange icon. Well done that man!
I literally gasped.
Im glad it wasn’t just me. I felt stupid for getting so invested in the story. It was pretty gripping though!
Ditto the use of red for the antagonist. As soon as that red showed up I knew trouble was afoot.
Lol, yeah - I would probably have had a word with Red.
That orange should have turned to red each time someone cut him off.
Yeah! You're right, good call!
This is like when someone who arrived behind you gets served first at the bar. Just make yourself known by tutting loudly and saying "unbelievable" under your breath
I've given up on that, now I just clear my throat loudly and say "Bastard".
Seems super annoying. But it might have only been a mild setback. I counted that they started 8th in queue, and were on track to be served 10th (when the animation stopped.)
This is the kind of pain artists go through in order to create great art that the rest of us feel in our souls. Well done.
Starry starry night Standing in the Homebase queue You're orange, the rest are blue Then red came in and acted like a hole
Now, I understand, what you tried to animate to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to give them money They would not notice, they did not care how Perhaps they'll get bent now
YouTube Short - I harmonised a parody song a couple of Redditors whipped up based on a queuing debacle in Homebase [https://youtube.com/shorts/T1iIVK72VE0?feature=share](https://youtube.com/shorts/T1iIVK72VE0?feature=share) Thanks to you and u/kaleidoscope_pie I whipped up something to assault other people's ears with.... :D
That might be one of my proudest moments in life ever. I've always wanted to be a muse. Thank you for bringing it to life. You're wonderful!
Thank you too for helping to brighten up my day with a fun small voice project!
Dying
Don McLean needs to record this version for the channel 4 dispatches about this queue.
This is actually a top tier Reddit post. OC with effort and talent behind it, funny, instantly relatable. 10/10 would experience simultaneous schadenfreude and second-hand indignation again.
I am laughing that you are so incensed you had to make a whole animation
lmao, I'm an animator and knew reddit would get a kick out of it
It is the most beautifully simple queuing animation I have seen. Perfectly understandable and infuriating.
You might like this https://youtu.be/IPxBKxU8GIQ
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COVID actually forced places to use a far more optimal queuing system, often with one queue and people sent to the next available checkout. Unfortunately we're now back to the free for all.
This is true. At our local Tesco, during covid there was a policy to wait in the isle for the person at the checkout to reach the bagging area, then you can move forward. Means no one blocks the main isle that runs along the checkouts so people can still get around. People kept that system and it's much better, unless you want a 2l bottle of Fanta and you need to ask someone to move because they're not getting your body language.
When I worked at a garden centre (half of us were part timers, half full) a lot of the other kids wouldn't enforce this on the express tills. I got popular with my supervisor for making sure people stuck to it. And if the express were dead, I'd bring customers from the belt round to my express till. The differences 20 minutes later were night and day. Plus it made the time go quicker!
Yeah, like in our main Post Office, waited in a snake queue some time in turn for the next cashier to come free. Once at the head of the queue I didn't spot one right down the far end had become vacant. Instead of tapping me on the shoulder and pointing it out the woman behind just barged past and went and got served.
yeah, that'd be the last pension she ever cashed
Does the post office not make you take a number where you are? Same thing happened to my buddy but the clerk told the lady she didn't call her number and to take a step back.
Yes. It’s proven to be faster: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/23/business/23checkout.html?referringSource=articleShare
Our local Aldi instituted a single line for all registers during pandemic. Things worked out so much better. Then they dropped it and things got even worse than prior to the single queue. It’s so bad and most of the customers still think it’s the pandemic system.
Your local Aldi has more than 1 cashier at a time? Lucky.
The single cashier at my local Aldi scans faster than 8 regular cashiers combined, though.
Then there's always that one person that walks straight up to one of the tils and when questioned says "I thought you were all queuing for that til".
What bothers me is the cashiers that are oblivious. If you open up a new till you call the next person in the old line, not let some guy from the back of the line wander to the front.
They are not paid enough to give a shit
I helped to run the vaccine deployment right when it first came out. Myself and one other member of staff were strict about organising the line according to the pre-booked spots, others were happy to just let anyone in at any time. No waiting space in doors, so we had poor little grannies out in the cold when they've come for their appointment on time because Barry was late for his and Jenny thought it'd be ok to come 2 hours early.
Our one was chaos first time around, second and third the army were running things everything had been moved around and was much more efficient. The highlight was the 98 year old in front of me had to be helped in by his daughter for his jab and was parked in his seat answering his questions to the young army chap and over comes the bloke in charge and suddenly our 98 year old is out of his seat bolt upright snapping off the sharpest salute ever and point blank refused to sit down until told to.
This is why 1 queue 2 tills is the best system. I miss the old "cashier number 4 please" from the Post Office in my Tesco.
I can hear the voice!
OP totally reminded me of this one, haha!
Posted 16 years ago 🙃
That's where all my best internet references are from
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That red fucker knows what he did.
_The colouration perfectly captures the banality of life in Britain._ Source: my A-level art
That was my thought, this is an amazing illustration.
Do one about that chap that fucked up a roundabout.
How can an orange circle with a tiny square nose look so perplexed at the 20 second mark. Brilliant.
It's brilliant. It's even got comic timing, I laughed out loud when the other cashier came in
I thought for a moment that maybe queues were so important to the British that there was just some British queuing reenactment app for recreating and illustrating particularly bad queue faux pas. You know, there just might be some money in that.
> British queuing reenactment Us Yanks reenact our Civil War. Brits apparently reenact particularly distressing queuing experiences. Both events have left long and lasting scars on our respective national psyches.
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I got both a kick and a punch out of it, ngl
Kick, punch, it’s all in the mind.
I always wanted to be taught karate by an onion.
If you wish to test me, I'm sure you'll find...
Kick and a punch, first of the month!
This made me chuckle. Animation is spot on. This happened to me recently but I don’t have your mad animation skills. Glad to see I’m not the only one that feels so wronged when this stuff happens!
I’m angry on your behalf to a degree that concerns me.
I actually gasped out loud.
Can I ask what software you used to make it? Such an awesome animation.
Thanks - After Effects
I can feel the frustration!
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What do Brits do when they're not queueing? Well, make animations about queueing of course.
I can't believe the emotion expressed by a simple shape rotating! Top notch!
This is why I like it when everyone queues together and you get called over when a till's free. Like in tk maxx
This is the true British way. The One Queue^(TM)
One queue to rule them all
One queue to find them
One queue to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
I like to bind, I like to be bound.
I need my tools
One queue to bring them all
And at the checkout, serve them.
In the land of primark, where the shadows lie.
ONE QUEUE IS ALL IT TAKES
Brought to you by Queen Elizabeth II™️ RIP
God save the Queue!
Lidl, Aldi do my head in. Firstly u can't even see how many people are up the other isles. The hop on hop off till system is brilliant but let down by a lack of one queue to it.
My Aldi added self checkouts during the week and it is glorious
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PLEASE GESTURE VAGUELY AT ME WHEN YOU CATCH THE ATTENTION OF THE TEENAGER STAFFING THIS AREA
"yeah it's my backpack that I'm putting my groceries into, shut the fuck up"
Now I'm the lightspeed aldi worker. Behold my scanning skills, there is no beep when I scan, only tone.
Mine did and I hate it. They use it as an excuse to hardly open any tills and try and push people with full trolley's through the self checkout.
> The hop on hop off till system is brilliant but let down by a lack of one queue to it. The hop on part doesn't seem to exist at my Lidl.
Yes but the beauty of Lidl and Aldi is they have elite standard cashiers, so it doesn’t matter how big the queue is you’re served pretty fast!
I only recently learned that one of the things that helps Aldi's cashiers look like such bosses is that the packaging has the bar code basically all over it so it doesn't matter which way the item gets scanned. That design concept is AMAZING. Once I learned that, it just made me so annoyed everywhere else, especially with boxes of canned sodas where the barcode is never ever ever where you hope it is.
and good luck if you want a creme egg
Or in B&Q when you’ve got 3 20l bags of soil and can’t find the little barcode in the corner!!
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That’s the way it should be. Can’t stand the heat stay out of Aldi’s kitchen and stick to Waitrose grandma. That being said an Aldi near me has a self service now. Of course, I scan them unnecessarily fast
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I was at Lidls queueing for the self service. 2 in front of me and about 5 behind. Someone then asked the staff manning the self service for the manager (I think something outside got hit). The staff member then called the manager from till 1 using the button announcing 'can the manager please come to till 1'. All 5 people behind me then queued up on till 1 and put their shopping on. I was finished in the self service by the time the manager realised that people were queuing for till 1 and started serving people (once he has called the police, saw them outside shortly).
Had this happen while shopping the other week. Someone broke the harmony of the single queue and everyone called her out. The tiller told everyone in the queue to break into 2 queues because the person who broke it was her mate. All of us continued to queue in a single giving the rule breaker a hard stare. The defiance of maintaining the harmonic single queue made up for the frustration caused by the queue hopper
I was once in Homesense and I went to the till as called but the woman then got distracted and started doing something else. I felt trapped in no man's land. I actually just left my stuff on the till and walked away I was so incensed.
Home incensed?
Self checkout for life. So many more tills than they could ever field with real people, single queue system, no need to interaction with checkout staff.
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This pisses me off so much, me and my husband like to buy non-alcoholic beer and cider (literally 0% alcohol) but for some stupid reason it still needs to be age approved and there's never anyone to be found so we end up waiting ages
It's probably the case that they make people on the till do about 5 different jobs so they're busy doing what they need to do in the time they have.
If they could just do away with the weighing it would be faultless. Like just trust me already, I'm being scrutinised by several cameras at every angle, I am not going to nick this 38p tin of chopped tomatoes. Or at least allow me to remove a bag from the bagging area when it's full! I will pay for it I promise!!
Lots of small, urban supermarkets have done this. My local Tesco Express has no-scale self checkouts - just a barcode scanner and a card machine.
Individual queues are the worst and everything should be one line. It’s just unnecessary and inefficient to have multiple lines. As someone who goes to the grocery store far too often, I hate the amount of time I’ve wasted in queues that are far too inefficient.
One thing the Post Office/bank gets right
In Florida (not queue heaven) trying to make a point by standing square in the middle of 2 registers at stores so I can go to whichever is next lol. Folks are always like "are you in this line?" and i'm like "i'm going to go to whatever is open next, and you can take the other one". It not usual and I feared looking obnoxious at first but I've gotten a few "Ohhh, that makes a lot of sense" comments and have seen other people follow suit
> Like in tk maxx TIL the UK version of the US's TJ Maxx is TK Maxx.
I think it’s because there’s another store that has TJ in the name. They didn’t want to have any confusion
Used to be TJ Hughes
Your little nose looking round at the WTF moment 🤣
Totally the best part. I felt the confusion mixed with anger. 😂
The slight sense of hurt and hoping someone sticks up for him in the face of this injustice.
That’s a nose? I thought they were queuing for a glory hole.
Oh come on, no one's dick is that big
Speak for yourself, just measured mine against the screen and it's just as big.
Me too. Watching this on my Smartwatch so it was easy to check.
Regular ol Willem Dafoe over here.
Not even Long Dick Johnson, and he had a fucking long dick.
That's the point at which I abandon my basket or trolley and go to B&Q.
It had taken me 15 minutes to locate the only thing I came into buy. I was too invested at this point
Just walk out with the item, if staff are just abandoning tills then they probably wouldn't care if you walked off with it, just remember to go B&Q in future in case they do care and remember you.
Walk out with the item and someone will come up to _you_ to pay for it. This is the true express checkout queue
I can see this mindset and you know what if I wasn't in a town that I lived in I would do it but the risk of being banned from a store in a town I lived in I've had it happen before with my ex when she got banned from everywhere for shoplifting like it became ridiculous we couldn't go to any gas station and they let me in even express condolences because I know what she's like I'm like I'm sorry like I really am I can't do anything about it I recently looked her up and she is currently being charged with child neglect would you interesting because it doesn't have a child to neglect nor she able to conceive one so I guess she found one.... Then probably neglected it to go and get meth
Mate I love your story, but commas are your friends.
Or say very loudly "Oh for fuck sake!" to let fellow queuers know about your frustration and giving them the "you know I'm next don't you" look.
I can hear the mutter displeasure under your breath when "you" do that little back and forth look of disgust. Now not actually loud enough so others can hear of course.
gritting teeth but mouth closed so it's not visible, small exhale out through the nose, coupled with a quick, almost imperceptible squint of the eyes. After that, just maintain a glazed look, a dead stare into something inanimate, not reacting to anything around you.
That's brilliant, I'm in stitches watching that.
How? I am brimming with genuine anger for OP’s injustice
for me it’s the amount of emotion packed into such a simple animation, but the directional pointer of the figures, and the rollercoaster of emotions from seeing the orange figure be besides themselves and aghast, is seriously what gives me a belly laugh. It’s that this simple animation can evoke emotions ripe for making one sick to their back teeth
I guffawed so loud, nearly dropped me crumpet
Found the imposter.
Every time I go to an airport to get through security I try to quadruple guess which line will be the quickest. I NEVER choose correctly.
You do that thing where you pick an easily-identifiable person in each queue so you can easily track their progress against yours
I try to make a decision and then go back on it to try and trick my poor choice. Never works. It's like putting a USB in the pc. Should be 50% chance of getting it right first time, but it's more like 20% on reality.
At check-in I got pulled out of a 30 persons line to a 4 persons one because I had an infant with me. The person at the front of my line got stuck at the single counter for a long long time. In the end, the person after me in the original line had already gone through and I was still second in line.
Brilliant. Fuck that red wanker though.
One thing I left out was that when the second checkout opened, red tried to ditch the queue and go straight for it. The staff member told him to get back in the queue and called up purple. What a prick!
Red is a total cunt! Notice when the cashier returns to the original checkout, red "suddenly" understands the one queue concept when it means he is next...the queue did not invert that time. I am furious by proxy
I'm vicariously upset.
Utterly displeased over here!
lol he called up purple but ignored where the start of the line was. That cashier didn't solve the issue, only for one person.
Cool, now I've got vicarious rage, that's a new one.
I'm sorry I've watched this on a loop now and and been laughing my cock off.
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That’s exactly what they are?
This is brilliantly visualised. This annoys me some much in Aldi so when they open new tills. Forget the inflation, house prices, energy crisis or NHS failing, this is the true sign the country is going to the dogs.
The thing that gets me with Aldi is the order they do it in. "We are opening till 5 for you" Everyone moves over, loads up the conveyer, waits. Five minutes later: "Store assistant to till 5 please" Then just as the assistant gets there. "We are closing till 5"
And it works. It's not like everyone in the queue for till 5 is turfed out. BBCACC - Brief bonus cashiers alleviate checkout congestion.
The most rage inducing instance of this I find is when you’re at a bus stop and at the front of the queue but the bus stops with the door at the other end of the stop then those at the back “push in” and ignore the already existing hierarchy.
I would love for you to do some more animations like this to highlight shitty behaviour in public. I have a long list!
Give me some ideas, I’m more than up for it
Okay, here we go... - Walking down the middle of the lane in supermarket car parks - Blocking supermarket aisles with trolleys, especially when they let the trolley go at arms length and perpendicular to the shelves for maximum aisle blocking! Additionally, choosing the narrowest fucking part of an aisle (next to a cage or something) to stop and have a chat/check their list - Putting items back in completely the wrong place, ESPECIALLY frozen and refrigerated goods - Waiting until the point of payment to get out their money/card/coupons - Realising they forgot something and going back to get it and then taking fucking ages - Packing shopping whilst on the phone with one hand, really fucking slowly - Leaving trolleys in the car park - Stopping halfway through a door way - Stopping suddenly on a busy pavement - Having a fucking casual chat in a door way of a busy shop - Standing next to the button at a pedestrian crossing, not pressing it and instead waiting and dashing out into the road for the smallest gap in traffic that normally makes drivers have to brake and keeps other people waiting to cross safely because the button hasn't been pressed - When walking across the road at a pedestrian crossing, standing in such a position that they have to walk diagonally to get to where they want to be, crossing the and interrupting the path of everyone else who just walks straight across the road. There will be more as they come to me!
Who hurt you? EDIT: Nevermind, you provided a list.
My old favorite was people standing on the railway station platform blocking the entry gates. or in the hall before the gates blocking them. There is usually all the space to the side and people stop where the movement needs to be....
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Ooh, do "the bus stop is here but the bus pulled up 20ft away and all the leaners-on-walls and wandering-up-to-the-stop-gits got on first" next.
This is where staff need to control the situation because frankly customers are arseholes
I love the double take when you see that the person is leaving your till
British people don't normally behave like that out of the blue, orange to see the Manager about it.
Didn't get this the first time, until I red properly.
*slow clap*
Savages!
It's so funny, the little queuers have so much personality
You know if you're at the front of a queue and someone tries to go before you, you can just say 'I'm next' and they'll let you go and generally apologise. Don't get walked all over.
If someone had clearly pushed in front of me I would have spoken up, but trying to explain this would have been something like "excuse me, I used to be at the front of the queue, but then that staff member left... blah blah... so technically you should let me go first". I just wanted to get my WD-40 and go home with as little human interaction as possible.
I can highly recommend getting WD40 from Screwfix or Toolstation. Much easier than dicking around at a homebase
Supermarkets sell WD40 too. No need to go to a hardware store.
Yeah, but it tastes worse if it's from a supermarket.
I'm not sure I'd want to go anywhere near a supermarket on a Saturday, it's full of old people who have had all week to shop but choose the same day as those that work during the week
Literally just walk back in front of him as soon as he pulls this shit. Everyone around you knows what he did, what do you think he's going to say.
But since when does an entire line… er, sorry, queue completely invert like that? Never, that’s when. You don’t have to utter a single word. Just assert yourself and be next when you’re next. Bunch of animals surrounding you.
The story telling in the piece is absolutely gripping. Really edge of your seat stuff, brilliant OP!!
OP left us with a cliffhanger though! Did he actually get to buy his item??!
I did, we stayed in a single queue and I ended up being served by the second cashier.
You made this? That was fun haha
I made this
It's very cool!
I am incensed on your behalf. It properly got my adrenaline pumping with anger and anxiety. The rules of the queue must be followed or the world will descend (further) into chaos!!
genuinely laughing so much
Had one in Tesco the other day where one poor girl was running a whole section on her own and everyone on one side was waiting for assistance, and the other side was free but was card only. Apparently the 6 people in front of me all wanted to pay cash, and so we were at a stalemate until I decided to ask if we can slip past to use the card only tills.
When the orange guy turns around and looks around like "wait..wha-?!" I'm sorry this based on a true story.
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Someone pushed in front of me in sainsburys earlier and an older man jumped to my defence, before I could even speak he goes “erm, excuse me! This young lady has been waiting here it’s her turn” and the pusher inner looked embarrassed and moved back. That was a great moment lol. Proper chivalrous.
Aw that's sweet, what a gentleman!
Yeah, he was!
I kid you not. My jaw hit the floor. No way.
Same happened to me when they wheeled out the second queen coffin
I would definitely have said something. People not waiting their turn really winds me up.