I used to hate this when I first started work at the hospital and had to deal with people as they came in the door. I'd be talking to someone with chest pains and another person would sidle up and interrupt because they "just have a quick question". They always thought it was perfectly fine to create an alternate line...as in, "Don't you see the
real line is over here and
I'm next?" It was fucking rampant.
Earlier this week I had to stand in line at a local government office that is really badly run because no one there gives a shit. You walk in the door, if you're lucky enough to make it all the way
in the door, and there's this massive line. After waiting in line 20 or 30 minutes, you come to a sign with a printout reading, "STOP! Wait here until you are called." You look up to see three windows, all behind protective bars because they know you want to kill them. They're marked "1", "2" and "3", but there's never anyone at the last two windows.
So you wait, and in a perfect world they call "next" and you step up and that's your turn. Except that the line ends in front of unmanned window #2, and window #1 is in a blank space facing the waiting room. So what usually happens is you wait for half an hour only to have some random asshole step right up to the window in front of you because they "didn't see" that there was a line.
When I went earlier, that's exactly what happened. The lady knew damn well there was a line, she just played stupid and cut in front of everyone. The person behind the counter doesn't give a rat's ass who they serve, so they never say anything.
Today I had to go again and the exact same fucking thing happened, four times. Two people cut in front of people I was waiting behind, then a third called out, "I am!" when they said "who's next?" and they took him. Then a woman behind me started poking the woman she was with and whispering, "You just have paperwork to turn in. Just go up to the window. Just go up." We ALL had paperwork to turn in, bitch!
If you tell them not to cut in line, they just stare blankly. I tried that. Everyone thinks that they're important enough to pass everyone else. I fucking hate that place.