# To the woman who tried to cut me in line today: I curse thee. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 7, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-woman-who-tried-to-cut-me-in-line-today-i-curse-thee/258808 "2004-08-07T20:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-woman-who-tried-to-cut-me-in-line-today-i-curse-thee/258808/21 "2004-08-10T16:18:23Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > I concur. I pay nearly all my bills through my bank’s website, or mail the ocasional check. The $0.39 stamp is worth the non-hassle. 39 cents??? Did they fucking change it again? I hope that’s a typo, otherwise, I’m going to be getting some returned mail. ---
**Author:** ![lezlers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-woman-who-tried-to-cut-me-in-line-today-i-curse-thee/258808/22 "2004-08-10T17:15:35Z")
> [@racinchikki](#): > > I don’t work at a 7-11, but at a copy center, where I’m not at the counter all the time and thus can’t observe the line formation. However, I have to stick up for the counter clerk because any attempt to do anything besides rotate through all the lines, regardless of who was there first, is likely to cause an altercation with customers complaining about not being served promptly. If one customer who is in a legitimate line would like to complain to the line-butting customers in the illegitimate line, they can feel free, but it is in the clerk’s best interest to get everyone out of the way as quickly as possible without arguing with anyone as to when he or she may have arrived in the store. Yeah, but unless the cashier is stoned off his or her ass, I think he or she would notice a whole group of people that suddenly walked up and formed a second line when he or she was already cashing through one line. Your powers of observation would have to be pretty damned dull to miss that. I was in a 7-11 the other day and some guy tried to pull that shit (forming a second line when there was already a line formed and only one cashier), the cashier totally ignored him and he eventually got into the _actual_ line. Perhaps it was the Stare Of Death I was giving him. I’d think satiating really rude customers that are destined to piss off a group of customers already waiting in line (what’s more infuriating than a line cutter?) would be a bit more dangerous than just insisting everyone follow the same set of rules. Honestly, it’s not that hard. Most of us learn how to form a line in freaking first grade. Endorsing this kind of behavior just makes people do it more and I have never seen any other store that allows that kind of madness. Especially for the sake of “keeping order.” It just doesn’t make any damned sense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-woman-who-tried-to-cut-me-in-line-today-i-curse-thee/258808.md?page=1)