Bound4Tassie Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38990535 We love a good queue! But seriously don't all civilised countries queue. ....or do they just walk into a bank or shop, see a line of people and ignore it?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 In my experience in Europe, the U.K people are the ONLY nation that queue. Aussie's do as well. I've noticed in work where we have a large Asian clientele that they as a culture don't queue and clearly struggle with pleases and thank you's too. It's obviously just something they don't "do" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 So what do French, Germans, Italians do in shops then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunbury61 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 In my experience in Europe, the U.K people are the ONLY nation that queue. Aussie's do as well. I've noticed in work where we have a large Asian clientele that they as a culture don't queue and clearly struggle with pleases and thank you's too. It's obviously just something they don't "do" Love a good queue ....traffic or pedestrian .....it makes a man out of you . Worst queue behaviour I have seen 1 - Disneyland Florida waiting for the buses ....brits queueing as gold ...bus turns up , people queue jumping and all sorts ...so rude ,that's why they ain't British 2 - a beauty ...disney again ...but a hotel at Disneyland Paris . All the Brits queuing orderly for the lifts in the hotel with their cases ....lift arrives on the ground floor ....all the Japanese rush forward from the back to jump in the lifts .....THIS GIRL ,WHO I FOUND OUT WAS FROM YORKSHIRE ....STOPS THEM ALL AND STARTS BERATING THEM ....GET TO THE BACK OF THE QUEUE ...WE WERE HERE FIRST .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunbury61 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 So what do French, Germans, Italians do in shops then ? Queue like us Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Queue like us Well that's what I would assume. So why is it the queue is seen as a British thing?! Even LovelyWA has said her European experience is that they don't queue. I don't see how else society / civillised people would do day to day stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 2 - a beauty ...disney again ...but a hotel at Disneyland Paris .All the Brits queuing orderly for the lifts in the hotel with their cases ....lift arrives on the ground floor ....all the Japanese rush forward from the back to jump in the lifts .....THIS GIRL ,WHO I FOUND OUT WAS FROM YORKSHIRE ....STOPS THEM ALL AND STARTS BERATING THEM ....GET TO THE BACK OF THE QUEUE ...WE WERE HERE FIRST .... Did they take any notice of her?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perthbum Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Aussies dont Queue nor do germans or italians, French do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobj Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Bradford city hall, 1962, the smallpox epidemic. The queue stretched 1 1/2 times around the city hall. I'm in there, somewhere. Smallpox Menace Aka Small Pox Stills 0:0 - 0:30 :29 0:49 0:50 0:51 0:52 0:53 0:54 0:55 0:56 0:57 0:58 0:59 1:0 - 1:30 1:00 Cheers, Bobj. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Aussies dont Queue nor do germans or italians, French do Not at ski lifts they don't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjez Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Went to lidl the other day. Queued up as you do. Woman squeezed past. Excuse me, excuse me. I assumed her partner was ahead in the queue and she was getting a couple of extra bits. Bold as brass she plonks her stuff down at the till, gets it scanned, pays and leaves. She jumped the whole queue. We were too stunned to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted February 16, 2017 Author Share Posted February 16, 2017 Went to lidl the other day. Queued up as you do. Woman squeezed past. Excuse me, excuse me. I assumed her partner was ahead in the queue and she was getting a couple of extra bits. Bold as brass she plonks her stuff down at the till, gets it scanned, pays and leaves. She jumped the whole queue. We were too stunned to speak. Maybe she was European then?! Surely would be pandemonium if people didn't queue. Can tell I'm British...the idea does not compute!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skani Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Aussies dont Queue ... Really? So that would explain why a woman pushing in front a child in a queue last week was so unusual it became a subject of outrage on local radio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunbury61 Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Did they take any notice of her?! Oh yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gbye grey sky Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 Something that has stuck in my memory from 30 years ago driving interstate in the USA. We pulled in at a McDonalds and, unusually for Freeway diners, found ourselves waiting behind someone ordering. In the UK at that time I would queue out of the door at the McDonalds near my office in Portsmouth and nobody ever said a word. An American guy walked in behind me and after, literally, standing there for 10 seconds sounded off very loudly about the lousy service. "You call this fast food?" He then stormed out shouting that he would take his business elsewhere. He couldn't have been that hungry as the next rest stop on the freeway was many miles away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Que Sera Sera Posted February 16, 2017 Share Posted February 16, 2017 (edited) Something that has stuck in my memory from 30 years ago driving interstate in the USA. We pulled in at a McDonalds and, unusually for Freeway diners, found ourselves waiting behind someone ordering. In the UK at that time I would queue out of the door at the McDonalds near my office in Portsmouth and nobody ever said a word. An American guy walked in behind me and after, literally, standing there for 10 seconds sounded off very loudly about the lousy service. "You call this fast food?" He then stormed out shouting that he would take his business elsewhere. He couldn't have been that hungry as the next rest stop on the freeway was many miles away. Definately cutting off his nose to spite his face :laugh: Edited February 16, 2017 by LovelyWA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristle Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Definately cutting off his nose to spite his face :laugh: Probably ate it on his way to the next place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starlight7 Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 I queue because I think it is a polite thing to do. My Mum never did though and when I was young I used to just about die with embarrassment when she queue jumped. Have to say she got away with it, though because people were so stunned when she blatantly went to the front. Dreadful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjez Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Funny that most people wouldn't dream of jumping a queue, except when they jump in their cars... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjez Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Something that has stuck in my memory from 30 years ago driving interstate in the USA. We pulled in at a McDonalds and, unusually for Freeway diners, found ourselves waiting behind someone ordering. In the UK at that time I would queue out of the door at the McDonalds near my office in Portsmouth and nobody ever said a word. An American guy walked in behind me and after, literally, standing there for 10 seconds sounded off very loudly about the lousy service. "You call this fast food?" He then stormed out shouting that he would take his business elsewhere. He couldn't have been that hungry as the next rest stop on the freeway was many miles away. you do tend to get good service in the US with that sort of attitude though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjez Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 Maybe she was European then?! Surely would be pandemonium if people didn't queue. Can tell I'm British...the idea does not compute!!it hasn't happened to me in waitrose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunbury61 Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 you do tend to get good service in the US with that sort of attitude though. TBH.....and is probably for another post ...But ...i didn't find the service any better in the u.s than in the u.k ...in fact I would give the u.k the edge because generally ,the person serving has some level of conversation ...other than " can I help you " and " have a nice day " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 18, 2017 Share Posted February 18, 2017 Better service usually as correlation with tipping cultures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bound4Tassie Posted February 19, 2017 Author Share Posted February 19, 2017 it hasn't happened to me in waitrose. That sort of thing would never be allowed in Waitrose! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JockinTas Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 That sort of thing would never be allowed in Waitrose! I think you would be lynched if you tried it here in the local Coles. :wideeyed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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