To answer your question, “Oh is that how it works now? What happened to line etiquette?”
Well guess what – if you’re next in line, and the gal calls “Can I help the next person in line?” and you don’t notice because you’re too busy being Chatty Chatterson to pay attention even though YOU’RE THE NEXT PERSON IN LINE, then it is YOU who have broken line etiquette because now the gal, and I, and whoever is behind me are all waiting for your sorry ass.
So yes, that IS how it works now. Make all the snarky over-loud comments you wish; I cut, and my frostie was no less sweet for it.
I, too, have performed the “dipshit shuffle” in order to step around someone who is obviously not paying attention to his ir her position in a line.
I, too, did not feel bad about it.
(*You get bonus points if they are distracted because they are talking on a Bluetooth headset.)
1UP Ding!