FWP.

There's actual food to buy.

There‘s a long queue at Tesco‘s in England and you‘re in the middle of it.

They open a new checkout and while the Brits are deciding the decent thing about who should join the new queue and it what order, a Swiss who was at the back of the queue walks right to the front of the newly opened checkout.

When reprimanded he/she replies in German/French/Italian the equivalent of „In my country we don‘t queue“.

What is your reaction??

The generic dialect is the same, but each village has their own.

Also, almost nobody in Lombardia speaks dialect anymore, even my wife's cousins mostly speak Italian and you almost never hear it in Italian shops.

Years ago, there was a guy who had a bar in the park in Mandello, and all of the German bikers who thought that they spoke Italian pretty well could never understand a word he said, while I did no problem. I had to explain to them that he was speaking dialect, not Italian.

Tom

Guys, I think you're all making a pile of ### out of nothing. It could be worse. You could have a perfectly organised queue and nothing to buy.

I have noticed from the beginning that the Swiss can't queue. Not all of them, most are OK. As for go back to your country I have never heard anything like this (well, one or two times on English Forum ). I smile, I'm very nice and tolerant. If someone is making a mistake, I think, well, he might be in a rush and I am not. Or doesn't know how things work. Or has whatever reason and not necessarily because ill intentions. Why get upset? If someone wants to lecture me, I ignore him or her. If that person could only see themselves from a distance...and have a sense of ridicule. If not - some people are not worth the trouble. Again, live and let live. Nowhere is perfect.

*and let's face it, I kind of understand the Swiss getting a bit "claustrophobic" with so many foreigners around. I try to not throw my foreigness into their face.....all the time. ;-)

I inadvertently jumped a queue an event here years ago. Completely missed how the queue snaked around with those black band thingies and joined it about three-quarters of the way through. I must have looked like the cheekiest arsehole on the planet but nobody said anything. They must have been trying to laser the back of my head with their eyes and wishing every curse on me they could think of but everyone just let me be.

If someone had pointed it out, especially if they had chosen to make a scene, I'd have died of embarrassment. I only figured out what I'd done after I was walking away from the cash-desk. Then cringed for about 20 minutes afterwards.

Sometimes it just happens and you don't realise. I try to afford others the same benefit of the doubt.

Plus add a comment about inbreeding...

Shop in France or Germany! Avoid all of this hassle!
I shop in Coop as well, but always use the self-checkout. Saves time and money.

yes as I had been waiting 5 mins and she had just arrived, the other people behind me also tried to filter over to the new one, I was the one she spoke to, why me I don't know.

"entitled"? I did what came naturally, try to pay in less time vs have everyone and their mother go ahead, how odd of me that

I have to add, it's odd Chuff felt the need to groan at me twice. Why? Because it's not a "I love Switzerland" thread? Because I am complaining? Isn't that the point, we can share the good and bad?

How does using the self checkout save money?
Do they charge you less if there’s no cashier to serve you?

Every day is discount day if you use the self-checkout...


From here.

Cheeky tyke...

You'll get different reactions to your complaints.

I am curious, why don't you try to forget about this silly woman? She's not worth your energy.

You should have responded with, "if you wouldn't queue jump, I could go back to my country quicker"

Interesting. Thanks.
My mate is a young guy and I forget the name of his exact village, but he often goes to the Woodstock bar near Bellinzona when he's visiting friends.

You're my kind of gal!

The only time I do anything about it is ski-lift queues when some blokes (single, no mates, Swiss, older) see it as their right to push past everyone in the queue to get to the front first.

It irks me when they feel they have the right to push past groups of kids who are waiting diligently. What sort of example to the younger generation is that?

We've all paid for our ski passes and I don't believe there's a fast-track VIP (Very Important Pr*ck) lane to the front of the queue.

Aahh, but you have to know HOW to queue in a ski lift queue and the bits that move the fastest towards the lift so you can advance through the queue without anyone actually noticing you are faster.

Also, if you are a little glut of kids/parents/friends/hangers on, that glut moves slower through the queue because of its size. Single skiers filter through quicker and are actually a good thing to keep things moving because they fill up the odd seats while the families are faffing about trying to get all together on a lift.

My son now says "see you at the top" and we split up through the queue because we can all individually fill in round faffing families.

The science of the ski queue.

And in response to the VIP lane, there is such a thing in many places - it's just a single file line where you can filter in one at a time if you are skiing by yourself. Not really "VIP" more of an efficiency thing. Nothing irks me more than a group of people who can't get their act together and end up stalling at the gates to allow one or more empty chairs up ahead of them.

I've never had a problem, but then I just accept that's the way it is when I encounter what I'd consider rudeness back home. I adopt the Corbett approach; I know my place.

Yep, you got it!

Queueing at the skilift is a sport within the sport.
Where I come from - - it's general education and it's like 'bicycle riding'.

But actually there are no rules for queuing at skilifts except "bitte nach vorne aufschliessen", anyone from a country with real mountains knows that.
And the English translation for that is "to close the lines"

I'm not talking about the jostling to the front in a queue for a chair-lift, but blatant moving past people in an orderly queue for a cable car, for example where there are defined barriers to stop queue-jumping and ensure an orderly queue.

It's pretty clear to see when people are being clearly ill-mannered in a queue if you've been brought-up that way and it's not country specific.
No need to tar all your fellow countrymen with the same brush.

Furthermore - do you really need 'rules' for everything? Can't you think for yourself?
I thought you were against a 'nanny state' as you keep mentioning in your posts?

The jostlers I dilike, but I'll reserve my real anger for those who let an 8 chair lift go with 2 people because the 5 of them want to all sit next to each other.

I think there is the distinction between rules and laws. As a rule people shouldn't flush their toilets after 10 in places where it might distrub others, but you're not going to be arrested for it.

I dislike the people who try and lift the safety bar up halfway up the mountain when I'm on the chair lift as well - with my (or others) young children.
Don't these 'simple mountain people' realise that they won't get off the chair-lift any quicker and their actions could lead to the death of a child?

But I suppose I shouldn't really comment - I'm not from a country with 'real' mountains (like Nepal or Pakistan).