Till offer that's not so special

I imagine most people have experienced the blatant queue jumping that goes on in lots of stores.

Having shopped, you make your way to the tills to make your payment and on arrival you find a single cashier and a number of other tills not being manned.

Having no choice, you wait patiently in an ever-increasing queue and then the penny drops, someone turns up to man a vacant till and then shows bad manners by asking people last in the queue "Would you like to come across".

Have I got it wrong? Shouldn't they be calling the people at the front of the queue to come across? It seems good manners to me to take such action.

The people behind you are just as ill mannered as the second cashier in so much as they cannot wait to jump in front of you. I hope people reading this will show a bit of decency when this situation arises again, as it will. Maybe we can scrape back some common courtesy into our increasingly selfish world.

Geoff Gutteridge, Knarsdale Close, Brierley Hill.