When did queues at bus stops, stop being queues?

Leave the young boys alone Q

Originally Posted by krhall

Anyone?

The idea was simple one and stood for many years:

Those who arrive at the bus stop first get on the bus first, with the exception of elderly, disabled or pregnant women, whom you may invite to go before you (optional but a nice friendly gesture).

When was this system abolished and replaced with a free-for-all?

Even when I was a rebellious teenager, we mostly adhered to these unwritten rules and by comparrisson to what I saw today were positively well mannered.

My mistakes were as follows:

1. Sold the wife's car.
2. Gave her my car to get to work.
3. Suggested my and the kids get a bus into town.

So getting the bus back a rowdy load of goth teenagers came to the bus stop and were idiots, but not really bothering me too much. Until the bus arrived and they all went to get on in front of me, my two young children and the old lady next to me.

I grabbed one of them back and said 'Oi there's a queue here!', fortunately they didn't stab me and moved aside for us and the old lady, but seriously some respect and some queueing please.

My ex-girlfriend, who is 5 foot tall, got threatened with a beating because she dared to question a quite large bloke and his fat ugly wife, who pushed their two overladen shopping trolleys in front of her's at Sainsbury's checkout. What made matters worse was Jane had two of our kids with her and the woman shoved the elder one, who was then 7 or 8, out of the way to get through.

They didn't realise that I was in the shop with 4 or 5 biggish biking mates and we were booze and grub shopping for a full weekend's party/bbq. When we got to the checkout to find Jane almost in tears and this **** in front I politely told the two of them to do one right away. It came to a point when they started to moan and the idiot bloke got sweary and threatened one of the smaller of our friends, so they were forcibly manhandled out of the shop, minus their shopping, by all of us. I told the bloke he could threaten me, he could push in front of us, but I really objected to him using foul language in front of my kids.

The shop manager came over to apologise and said he'd seen what happened but couldn't have intervened because he'd heard the bloke was a nasty piece of work and didn't want to make the situation worse. I told him his lack of action had just cost him a customer, and we'd be shopping at Tesco from then on.

Were they British? British people always form an orderly queue

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by krhall

Well listening to metal music dark clothing, dark hair and heavy eye make up (blokes).

oh and of course every person like that is a Goth eh?

Sure they weren't them Emo types? Think they are a bit livelier these days.

See back in my youth.......

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Ed

Were they British? British people always form an orderly queue

Ed, you're too old like me. Queueing was abolished by EU regulation 1.6.9.C

Introduced by a German MEP, as they have never grasped the concept of queueing

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by Messie

It was when manners stopped mattering, unfortunately

Correct, a liberal inspired rush to care for oneself at any expense - especially that bourne by others.

Listen to my Mum: 'Manners cost nothing', how very true.

Originally Posted by Sid Squid

Correct, a liberal inspired rush to care for oneself at any expense - especially that bourne by others.

Listen to my Mum: 'Manners cost nothing', how very true.

You're damned lucky, when your mum told you old proverbs you could understand them. My mum gave me ones that were roughly translated from the Maltese, so I went through life thinking "If the trouser leg is short, the mind is in Genoa" or something similar.

I too have noticed this. But at least the word queue is used on the whole in this country, in Italy apparently the done thing is to just have sharpened elbows

[Sid Squid]

Originally Posted by Lozzo

"If the trouser leg is short, the mind is in Genoa" or something similar.

Cryptic - but meaningful. A lesson for life that one.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

oh and of course every person like that is a Goth eh?

Nope - I was generalising about the look really.