Well I wish someone had sent this thread to Miss Manners. We have one train of thought on "we are retired what is the rush"and another with the emphasis on "I" exclaiming that retired or not time is of the essence.
We all have had people who have gone right to the head of the line. sometimes they get away with it sometimes not. It can be irritating and you wonder just what this person is thinking or perhaps is simply not thinking.
How you choose to react says a lot about you and I long ago decided that I wanted to show the self control and self restraint and intelligent enough to not let someone control my emotions . So in the scenario presented by the OP I would have simply told myself intentionally or unintentionally this person has no idea of the problem she is creating and acting up only creates tension for the people involved or seated, etc And in a few seconds or minutes it will have been already forgotten.
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