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[Closed] Queuing etiquette.

taxi25 · 2020-01-25T16:24:01Z

For the first time in my life today I was accused of jumping a queue, but I don't think I was or maybe I did ? If you know Cardiff you might know the New York deli in the High St arcade. Anyway you queue at the counter and place your order with staff making up sandwiches ect. They take a couple of orders ahead but not the whole queue so if it's busy there's a wait before your order is taken. The waitress doubles up at the till and brings you the food. Soft drinks you take yourself out of the fridge before paying at the till. I was with my son and we had food, but before we left he saw in the fridge an American soft drink he'd heard if but never tried. I asked him if he wanted one, he said yes so I took one out of the fridge and ignoring the queue to order food stood by the till to pay for it. A guy in the queue accused my of trying to jump the queue. I said why wait in the food queue to pay for a take out drink ? the waitress taking my money wouldn't make him wait any longer, what was the problem ? He kept on so I asked the staff if I should wait in the queue, they said it was etiquette that I did. I wasn't going to wait for ten minutes or more to put £2 on the counter so I put the drink back and left. There seemed to be a majority in there that felt I was wrong, and maybe I was but was I ?

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DaveyBoyWonder

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What you should have done is beaten your child in the middle of the packed sarnie shop for not deciding what they wanted to drink whilst you were queuing for ages.

Posted : 28/01/2020 5:48 pm

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