I can’t get behind all this ‘queue running’ when I’m down shops – Hayley Matthews

Now this may sound trivial but it happens all the time now when I’m walking to a shop – people start running in front of each other or upping their pace, and the majority aren’t even in a rush anyway – it’s just the typical British behaviour of not wanting to be at the back of the queue. I couldn’t bite my tongue any longer when a woman who was walking side by side with me started bolting towards the post office when she realised I was going in that direction too.

She then had to stand like a bit of a tube and make excuses about how she’d better get back as so-in-so would be wondering where she was. I wasn’t buying it.

I mean, what is wrong with people? One minute you’re walking, then as you get closer to the shop everyone starts running for the queue like we’re all in some secret egg and spoon race!

I’ve had so many people sprint in front of me as I’ve casually walked to the back of the supermarket queue which, looks huge, but in reality, there are only about 10 people in it, and it goes down really quickly because, guess what? Yep, there are two metres in between everyone so it’s actually not that big a queue anyway.

I heard one guy on the phone moaning that he was queuing behind 50 people. I counted, there was 18. We’re all over-dramatising and our reactions are probably stressing us out more than the queuing is.

So come on people – we’re all in this together, enough of the cutting in front of each other at the shops! We’ll all get there eventually for our pie and beans, so calm your jets!