[SamAdams76]

For a slightly different take on this one, i hate it when a person in a long line gives the OK for another person to cut in front of them. Don't they realize they just gave cuts on behalf of everybody behind them? Those people are JERKS.

One time waiting to get a cold drink on a hot day at some amusement park, some mother with a child came up to and asked if she could cut in front of me because her daughter was thirsty. Lame excuse because the daughter looked fine to me and besides there were drinking fountains all over the place with no lines at all. So I turned around and said in a loud voice "Sure, so long as it's no problem for all the thirsty people standing behind me."

She immediately vanished.

[RobFromGa]

I read an article somewhere that they researched asking people to cut in line, giving various reasons.

No reason, "Can I cut in front of you?" failed most of the time.

Any reason, doesn't matter what- "Can I cut in front of you because my brother loves to snow ski" and the percentage went way up, it made little difference what the reason was. This is an interesting tidbit about human nature.

[uncitizen]

So I turned around and said in a loud voice "Sure, so long as it's no problem for all the thirsty people standing behind me." She immediately vanished.

Ha! Now that's the way to handle it!