CHANGE ARRIVES RIGHT ON QUEUE Consequences must be faced
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IT’S been an amazing year for queues — probably won’t be long before they’re granted their own ethnic status.
This year will be remembered as the year queueing was capitalised — now you must refer to The Queue or risk getting cancelled for lack of respect.
For years, decades even, perhaps centuries, queues — sorry, The Queue — has faced stealthy but constant abuse in Ireland.
Too many people have publicly disrespected The Queue — like any time a new till opens in Aldi or Lidl.
You might be standing there, behind someone with a massive trolley brimming with wood chippings, tool belts and dairy products.
You might only have a bottle of wine in one hand, and a multi-pack of tortilla chips in the other, but you’re in The Queue. So you stand there.
Chainsaws
There’s people behind you. They’re standing there. Five or six of them — with various baskets and trolleys full of chainsaws and chicken thighs.
Four Is Now Opening” announcement is made. But that’s not the worst of it.
The worst is the person at the BACK of The Queue thinks it’s their god given right to suddenly be the very FIRST at a brand new till. Like that’s OK.
That person will bypass the entire queueing system like it’s just a stroke of good fortune bestowed on them by fate.
Fact
They ignore the obvious fact that they had just joined The Queue, like suddenly it’s OK for them to not queue because they weren’t fully committed to it.
There should be no place in supermarkets for these people. They care not one bit for the likes of me, with my two items, watching trolleys unload.
It should not need saying that the person behind the person being tended to in The Queue should be moved to the new till. Often they feel trapped, sectioned in by the grocery conveyor belt, but usually it’s the brazen speed at which the person at the rear moves that scuppers them.
But times have changed. We’ve had vaccinations, Dublin Airport and, more recently, the UK. People now need to know for their own sake, disrespect The Queue and there’ll be consequences.
Perhaps a specific flag for The Queue should be considered. An anthem even? God Save The Queue? Could anyone with suggestions for an appropriate one form an orderly line please, thanks.
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