The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
So, you've been up to the canteen to get a cup of tea. On returning to your desk, you discover that you've been given earl grey (with milk) instead of normal PG tips Breakfast tea. So you make your way back to the canteen to find a significant queue.
Do you wait in the queue until your turn comes round again or do you cut to the front of the queue and attract the dinner lady's attention?
I only ask, because this just happened to me and I did the latter. Whilst doing so, I was subjected to many tuts and not an inconsequential number of huffs* from people waiting in the queue, which suggests that, in their eyes, I've comitted some awful transgression.
Your thoughts, please!
*Americans please note - this is England - we don't tell people off for queue jumping, nor do we take any action over it. Procedure is that we make our feelings known by tuttng and huffing
I can tell you from personal experience that the British rules apply in Australia and people diligently queue..anyone breaking these rules is subjected to a fair amount of verbal abuse unlike in Britain where tutting and huffing are the order of the day..
you waited your tun in an earlier queue ahead of the people now waiting and you are returning to correct that service which was prior to the new queue - so no you shouldn't have to wait again and anyone who can see that you are returning to correct something and huff can boil their heads - your breakfast after all is now getting cold!
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I aint no wide eyed rebel, but I aint no preachers son.
Excessive health and safety regulations and the vague possibility of litigation if someone is dumb enough to pur boiling water over themselves mean that my organisation has instituted a policy that bans such things from the office, even in designated kitchen areas (we just about get away with refigerators). We do have coffee vending machines dotted about the place which create hot(ish) cupfuls of liquid which can only be drunk by those with no taste buds and/or a death wish (maybe it should be on Catfish's list!).
The only way to get a drinkable hot beverage (and I use the word 'drinkable' in it's loosest possible sense), is to pay a visit to the canteen.
Look here is what you do - get your baseball bat and go pay the building management people a nice little visit. Persuade them to go sort it out for you or it's time to be introduced to a world with soft pulpy mounds of flesh and splintered bone on the ends of their arms INSTEAD OF HANDS!!!! GOD DAMMIT!!!!
blimey - that was quite an eruption wasnt it?
Just stand in the queue and stop being a girl...
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"Everyone has a plan, until they get punched in the face" - Mike Tyson
I'm not sure what the "etiquettely correct" answer is. I always wait in the line again. This drives my husband mad. He walks up to the front of the line, lets whoever was being served finish their transaction and slips in between them and the next person in line.
...Ben
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...Ben
