AN airport queue jumper was forced to apologise and get back in line after being shamed live on social media.
A disgruntled traveller decided against speaking directly to the offender, opting instead to photograph the man’s shoes and post the image and complaint online.
In what may be the most Millennial and British exchange ever, the queue jumper responded on social media to own up, apologise, and take his proper place.
As far as is known, the entire matter was concluded – at an unknown airport – without the two men actually speaking to each other.
The bizarre incident happened on Monday morning when a user of the social media site Imgur was waiting in line at a queue to show his passport.
The man, known on Imgur as “sofalips”, spotted a fellow passenger slowly but surely overtake him in the queue.
“Sofalips” noticed that the offender was on his mobile and that he was also using Imgur.
After photographing the queue jumper’s shoes, he posted the image with the caption: “Hey imgur. A person wearing these shoes is overtaking me in a passport queue.
“Just by slowly walking past. He’s not even in the damn line.
“Anyway he finally edged his way in front of me and I saw that he’s on imgur so please join me in scolding the rotter.”
The message quickly went viral on Imgur and was put on the site’s front page.
Users’ responses ranged from “Murder him, that will teach him” to “You rat b****** get to the back of the line”.
Sofalips updated minutes later: “My first front page and it’s about skipping lines. Much love you bunch of miserable b******s (except you, queue jumping mystery imgurian).”
Not long after that, the queue jumper realised he had been publicly shamed live on the internet.
The man, “Schwingset” told Sofalips: “This is me. Honestly I had no actual intention of pushing just shattered and not paying attention.
“I’m terribly sorry. It won’t happen again.”
Schwingset even posted a picture of his own shoes to prove he was the queue jumper.
And even though they were feet away, the exchange continued with Sofalips posting: “Hahaha. Was it really you? No hard feelings bro. I saw you cut back in behind me.
“Posted this whilst you were still edging forward. I’m a petty Brit and a stickler for queue etiquette. Sorry I didn’t have the balls to call you out.”
Schwingset responded: “I’m a stickler Brit too, I just take that flight every Monday so I’m usually pretty out of it.”
Finally, Sofalips assured everyone the incident had ended in typically British, polite fashion.
“He apologised – and it was all a big misunderstanding – sleepy travellers shuffling along like zombies, mesmerised by imgur and not seeing the queue. Have a happy Monday everyone, peace.”
