The queue to be served is on the left. The people standing on the right are just randomly browsing and chatting, and have subconsciously aligned themselves along magnetic field lines.
Turn the sign round
Power move, just walk right up to the front of the queue on the correct side of the sign and go before the people on the wrong side
I love how even the magazine cover can’t see the left side!
We have this at Argos but there’s also the black queue ropes but somehow people miss that too..
This caused me a frisson of annoyance, then discomfort, then irritation and then resignation….
Time to go browse those shelves that are being blocked
Is that Boots on Upper Street, Angel?
Pharmacy? The last one I went to, once you are served, you go and wait on the right side for collection.
That situation is an absolute nightmare for a British person.. do the people who have already ignored the sign know something you don’t or do you follow the sign…I’d leave and come back later
Choose wisely…choose life.
Cos if its anything like my local Boots the only queue is for the methadone.
This pisses me off to a surprisingly unreasonable degree.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I was confronted with a post office queue like this once. 30 minute lunch break, waited 20 mins with the others.I got to the front, only me left in the queue and a couple of pensioners rolled in and walked to the front, they knew the lady at the counter who started to serve them. I politely stated that I had been waiting and they rudely snapped that I was queuing in the wrong place so it’s their turn. I pressed the point and they said something about respecting elders… The lady behind the counter just smirked and continued to serve them. I stood for another 5 minutes while they chatted about cats and weather before I had to leave to get back to work. I started using Hermes after that and contrary to the general experience posted on Reddit, I have never had a problem,
A few weeks ago a woman cut in front of me at Sainsburys when I was next, I was returning home from a weekend away so had a massive heavy rucksack on which I used to barge her out of the way when it was my turn.
Excuse me, pardon me, can I get through please? I need to get to the eye drops, something that you might all consider since you missed the sign telling you to queue over there!
Anarchy in the UK
One queue prescription one queue purchase?
Christ, Boots pharmacies are depressing. Post apocalyptic. Much like WH Smith with the yellow lighting. I’m surprised they managed to spell ‘queue’ properly in the first place.
Can I just make the observation, after spending four days in london (me being belgain), at how inconsitent keeping left or keeping right is in Britain? Like I assumed, since you drive left, people would walk left aswell. And indeed, where it is marked or something, that is the case. But at any other oppertunity where walking direction is not clearly marked. Everyone walked right for some reason?
7 wrongs don’t make a right. Go to the left.
I’d queue the other side, like it states.
Its a test of character OP. Do you want be morally correct, joining the queue thats formed knowing you wait your turn like the others or do you queue on the left, skipping everyone else being technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct.
I’d just leave the shop and come back a week later, or maybe never go back just in case the predicament repeats.
This is like when someone parks badly, so you have to park badly, but then they leave and now you just look like a dick
So an arrogant or ignorant person queued in the wrong aisle. Then other people blindly did the same. Which would also make them arrogant or ignorant even though most were probably inteligent enough to know that they were in the wrong aisle.
Sheep.
The words Agnorant and Igorant ( both meaning Arrogantly ignorant and Ignorantly arrogant.) need to be added to the dictionary.
When you see things like this you can understand why serial killers do what they do.
Follow the sign’s instructions. Anyone whinges, point to sign.
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The queue to be served is on the left. The people standing on the right are just randomly browsing and chatting, and have subconsciously aligned themselves along magnetic field lines.
Turn the sign round
Power move, just walk right up to the front of the queue on the correct side of the sign and go before the people on the wrong side
I love how even the magazine cover can’t see the left side!
We have this at Argos but there’s also the black queue ropes but somehow people miss that too..
This caused me a frisson of annoyance, then discomfort, then irritation and then resignation….
Time to go browse those shelves that are being blocked
Is that Boots on Upper Street, Angel?
Pharmacy? The last one I went to, once you are served, you go and wait on the right side for collection.
That situation is an absolute nightmare for a British person.. do the people who have already ignored the sign know something you don’t or do you follow the sign…I’d leave and come back later
Choose wisely…choose life.
Cos if its anything like my local Boots the only queue is for the methadone.
This pisses me off to a surprisingly unreasonable degree.
Be the change you want to see in the world
I was confronted with a post office queue like this once. 30 minute lunch break, waited 20 mins with the others.I got to the front, only me left in the queue and a couple of pensioners rolled in and walked to the front, they knew the lady at the counter who started to serve them. I politely stated that I had been waiting and they rudely snapped that I was queuing in the wrong place so it’s their turn. I pressed the point and they said something about respecting elders… The lady behind the counter just smirked and continued to serve them. I stood for another 5 minutes while they chatted about cats and weather before I had to leave to get back to work. I started using Hermes after that and contrary to the general experience posted on Reddit, I have never had a problem,
A few weeks ago a woman cut in front of me at Sainsburys when I was next, I was returning home from a weekend away so had a massive heavy rucksack on which I used to barge her out of the way when it was my turn.
Excuse me, pardon me, can I get through please? I need to get to the eye drops, something that you might all consider since you missed the sign telling you to queue over there!
Anarchy in the UK
One queue prescription one queue purchase?
Christ, Boots pharmacies are depressing. Post apocalyptic. Much like WH Smith with the yellow lighting. I’m surprised they managed to spell ‘queue’ properly in the first place.
Can I just make the observation, after spending four days in london (me being belgain), at how inconsitent keeping left or keeping right is in Britain? Like I assumed, since you drive left, people would walk left aswell. And indeed, where it is marked or something, that is the case. But at any other oppertunity where walking direction is not clearly marked. Everyone walked right for some reason?
7 wrongs don’t make a right. Go to the left.
I’d queue the other side, like it states.
Its a test of character OP. Do you want be morally correct, joining the queue thats formed knowing you wait your turn like the others or do you queue on the left, skipping everyone else being technically correct, which as we all know is the best kind of correct.
I’d just leave the shop and come back a week later, or maybe never go back just in case the predicament repeats.
This is like when someone parks badly, so you have to park badly, but then they leave and now you just look like a dick
So an arrogant or ignorant person queued in the wrong aisle. Then other people blindly did the same. Which would also make them arrogant or ignorant even though most were probably inteligent enough to know that they were in the wrong aisle.
Sheep.
The words Agnorant and Igorant ( both meaning Arrogantly ignorant and Ignorantly arrogant.) need to be added to the dictionary.
When you see things like this you can understand why serial killers do what they do.
Follow the sign’s instructions. Anyone whinges, point to sign.
Is this Boots in Dyce, Aberdeen?