That's why when people ignore queues it becomes a case of the survival of the fittest and if certain rules of etiquette are ignored, I become the incredible hulk. Yes, I turn green and get aggressive.
It happened when we got off the boat to go into Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
I have already mentioned that Indonesia, which is a country of over 17000 islands, is the fourth most populous country in the world after China, India and the USA. There are an astonishing 275 million people in Indonesia, over half of whom live on Java with its capital Jakarta is one of the most populated cities in the world.
As I have already mentioned we were looking to get a timed shuttle bus into what we assumed would be the centre of Jakarta. It was chaos. The time on the tickets seemed irrelevant. Some people were going on tours and others were getting the free shuttle. Two buses filled up and we were about fourth in the queue for the next one.
It came after a few minutes but pulled up a little ahead of the front of the queue. Cue (a bit of word play there) a mad rush to get on as people came from the back of the queue.
At this point the Incredible Hulk took over. All semblance of gentlemanly conduct is cast to the wind and I'm quite happy to barge people out of the way whilst trying to help those who were ahead of me to get on.
We were told the journey could take up to an hour. After 20 minutes I pointed out an interesting sign which was a large camel. This turned out to be our destination - a shopping mall. And the rest I have described in a previous blog.
We did see enough to suggest that it isn't a place we will be rushing back to.
Going back to the queuing. The first time I had to employ the incredible hulk principle was in Russia in 1974. I know it was 1974 because that's where I met the other threequarters. No she isn't Russian although she does come from Yorkshire which at times feels like the same thing.
We were trying to get on a local bus in Moscow and it was all pretty orderly. There were a lot of seemingly elderly women behind us. As the bus rolled up, these women pushed forward and used their elbows to get onto the bus.
The next time we wanted to catch the bus the same thing happened, but we were now wise to it and we barged them out of the way. There were no complaints so this survival of the fittest must have been the norm.
Ever since I have adopted the same principle. Anyone who queue jumps is fair game to be barged out of the way.
Incidentally I have referred to those Moscow women ever since as little and lethals.
The same thing happens on the roads of course where motorists drive right up to the point where a lane is closed rather than being polite and filtering in and taking their turn. I suppose it's all human nature, but that doesn't make it right.