The Queue - wonderful

I think we are ‘splitters’ *henetha, and yes I expect Phillips was. I saw a flash of badger hair anyway. ??

I’ve just got home after queuing for 35 minutes for my Covid booster. This has made me realise that the people in The Queue are absolutely amazing!!

Sorry FannyCornforth I dont recall the author - just the outline of the story. I tried googling it but nothing came up.

When I was 16 and began work I would not have said boo to a goose. Every alternate saturday I worked in a busy library which was a few stops down from one of the main foorball grounds in Liverpool. Just as I came out of work the buses would arrive packed with fans and more fans waiting at the stop. No one was actually queuing - just a crowd pushing and shoving. Well I was a big girl and I learned to shove my way onto a bus or I would never have got home. There were 5 bus routes called at my stop but only one was any use to me. When it appeared I was quite merciless. But thats footballs supporters for you.

ixion ??

ixion That's brilliant! Absolutely love it!!

I always think a well managed queue is a way of creating a little community of like minded individuals

Callistemon21

Same in Australia, Dickens
Until they suddenly realise that their third cousin twice removed might be your sister-in-law's aunty's next door neighbour back in the UK.

Ixion that’s brilliant!

The Queue now has its own (BBC) weather forecast.

Zoejory

Callistemon21

Oops, I knighted David Beckham OBE!

He deserves a knighthood for refusing to Queue Jump.

Absolutely. He should be first in the queue to get one

Oh no, now I'm getting cynical about the queue as I know he is desperate to get one isn't he?

This friend said something to man with cerebral palsy, who always pushed in.

Her take on it was that yes, we all have been to work, we all need to get into our island home, using a limited bus service.

Being unable to get on the bus could mean an extra hour added onto your working day.

MissAdventure

I used,to work with my friend, and we travelled home together, and she would always give queue jumpers a telling off.
I hated that, because she would say "come on, don't let her push in!"

That would be me. I’ve embarrassed friends and family many times calling out queue jumpers ?

Just realised it's only linked to SomersetColin - I sent the second video of him talking.
I thought it great.

Apologies.

BlueBelle

Well I misjudged that I sent it to my closest friend who normally totally shares my sense of humour and she told me she found it offensive and not at all funny She’s not an ardent royalist or anything and we normally laugh at the same things ??‍?

I have had total silence from two friends who I thought would find it amusing too.
?
Oh dear.

This is the one I sent:

www.tiktok.com/@somersetcolin

Callistemon21

Oops, I knighted David Beckham OBE!

He deserves a knighthood for refusing to Queue Jump.

Absolutely. He should be first in the queue to get one

Try chatting to someone in a queue in Norway and well disposed though these people are, they will look at you as if you might be an axe-murderer on The Appalachian Trail

Same in Australia, Dickens
Until they suddenly realise that their third cousin twice removed might be your sister-in-law's aunty's next door neighbour back in the UK.

Oops, I knighted David Beckham OBE!

He deserves a knighthood for refusing to Queue Jump.

I am sure the Queen herself would have had a laugh at that!

“There you have a movie as British as it could be. You just need ten characters and how they got to the queue.”

First the book, then the film. Who will direct it?
Will it be Danny Boyle, Ridley Scott, Sir Kenneth Branagh
Will Sir David Beckham play himself in a cameo role?

With Mrs.Perry riding pillion, MrsKen.

Isn't this just the best thread for ages.

I used,to work with my friend, and we travelled home together, and she would always give queue jumpers a telling off.
I hated that, because she would say "come on, don't let her push in!"

My mum was totally brazen about it, never sneaky. It was awful to behold. She did the same on the London buses and demanded a seat because she was old. She got away with it, too. She would just go up to a young person and tell them she needed their seat . If she tried that here she would probably have got stabbed !

biglouis

I once read a SF story about a man who was in a queue. He was there for many days, interacting with his neighbours in the queue. When he got to the front he gave in his name at a window, and that was all. When he walked away he feltsad, depressed and bereft. He felt that the entire purpose of his life had gone. So he joined the back of the queue ......

The journey, not the destination…
Can you remember the author please Biglouis?

My mum was British, Yorkshire born and bred and she would never, ever queue. She would queue jump , push in as if it was her right.

Blimey. I was going to say I’m amazed she got away with it. Then I remember challenging a sneaky queue jumper who subtly bypassed four long queues at an M & S sale. He claimed he didn’t know anyone was waiting - I asked what he thought all these people were doing, turned and gestured dramatically to the multitude behind me - and they all suddenly spotted something interesting in the far distance or something to fiddle with in their baskets. Wusses. He got served - though the checkout operator was suitably frostily polite with him - and as soon as he was out of earshot with his ill-gotten purchases everyone started tut-tutting about how rude he was and being all outraged.

It wouldn’t happen in The Queue of Queues.

The "I" came through the door and guess what featured on the front page ...and the cartoon...

I’ve just been suitably chastised for laughing at the jokes
I’ll admit to having a very dark sense of humour.