In BC we call it budging, elsewhere it’s cutting in or jumping the queue. It bugs me. I can’t figure it out – is it a laid back West Coast thing or a Canadian trait, but here, people are generally good about taking turns. Lining up to cross the Lion’s Gate Bridge, where three lanes merge into one, people take turns. At MacDonald’s, people dutifully form one line behind an imaginary point and funnel in succession as clerks become available.
I say generally, because there is always an exception and it always happens to be when I’m in line. For instance, waiting for a chance to wash my car at the self serve car wash. There are three stalls and I’m sitting there waiting for the next one to become available. In comes a car that zooms around me to wait for stall #1. I get brave and approach the guy (no generalizations here, but today at the bank with a neatly formed queue, awaiting for the door to open, an employee comments on how orderly we look. Two of us observed that it must have something to do with gender).
Back to the car wash "Excuse me," says I, "I’ve been waiting."
"That’s not the way you do it," says the driver.
"That’s the way I do it at the bank and at MacDonald’s," I tell him.
That’s not what you do here." he says in an exasperated tone, "so which one do you want, make up your mind.
Very politely I say, "I want the one that you’re in." I take secret pleasure watching him back up and move to stall #2.
I’m sure he was thrilled, however, to see that he beat me into his stall by 30 seconds.
On the way home I witness another form of budging, the person who sneaks through a stop sign on the heels of the car in front of her, not waiting for for her turn. She proves that it has nothing to do with gender. All I could think of is "You’d better be in labour, honey."
As long as I’m witchin’ about stuff, let me turn on myself and my inability to visualize what a seemingly beautiful handpainted yarn will look like when knit up. Many times I’m disappointed. This time,however, I lucked out:
That’s Lorna’s Laces Shepherd’s sock yarn in Gold Bar and a faux version of the Montego Bay scarf pattern from Interweave Knits. I found similar stitch pattern in a book and, as they also say in Canada, Bob’s your uncle.
Life's a Stitch 
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