Interesting that you say that, as I've just been reading a regular weekly column in the 'Times' by Deborah Ross, which I enjoy hugely because she has a humourous take on so many things which broadly accords with my own, while making some serious points within them. This week she was asking 'when did queueing for buses in London end in favour of the strongest and fittest surging aboard first?' which was making the serious point that, in her neck of the woods which is, I believe, Crouch End in North London, she's had to let several buses go by on occasion because of the surging and, on one occasion, had to return home. She felt moved to mention it having witnessed three teenage girls pushing an old man with a stick who'd been patiently waiting out of the way so they could get on. I've seen posts on this and other forums too about two or three buses on a route sailing by without stopping when vacant seats were plainly visible upstairs, so it's a bit of a lottery. At least conductors (or most of them, anyway) would usually decide who they thought had been waiting in line and adjudicate accordingly, but they'd probably need police protection nowadays.
